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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Civil conflict"”.
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Civil conflict and international migration in Nepal
… studies the causes and consequences of civil conflict. Several of these studies are of Nepal’s civil conflict that lasted for a decade from 1996. Coincident with this conflict was a surge in work-related emigration, affecting education and human capital investments, labour supply, and …
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On Mass Media, State Capacity, And Civil Conflict
… objectively predict its likelihood of civil conflict onset. The state capacity literature argues that the likelihood of civil conflict increases when military strength, regime revenue, and/or political institution coherence decrease. However, for this theoretical causal linkage to hold, …
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Money. Money. Money? Economic incentives in civil conflict
… the relationship between economic factors and civil peace. Many scholars have suggested that this may not be enough, but it does not appear that we have been listening. This thesis assesses the strength of economic incentives to influence the actions of individuals and groups leading up to and …
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Democracy, Freedom and Occupation: a Recipe For Civil Conflict
… insurgency and policing a rampant sectarian conflict. The purpose of this study is to understand how a conflict of this nature can arise out of the prospects of democracy and freedom after being liberated from an oppressive dictator. What is found is that the current conflict in Iraq is a …
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A Process of No Return: Mediation in Civil Conflict
… project focuses on mediation in the context of civil conflict. There are various possible solutions to civil conflict. The parties may resort to the use of violence through military victories but there are also other peaceful solutions such as mediation. Although several methods are available to …
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Assessing the Timing of One-Sided Violence in Civil Conflict
In times of civil conflict, civilians often attempt to distance themselves from the horrors of combat. However, noncombatants play an integral role in the prospects of victory for both an incumbent and an insurgency. By choosing to support a belligerent in times of civil conflict, civilians can …
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Uncrossing the Rubicon: Transitions from Violent Civil Conflict to Peace
… to and stimuluses for transitions from violent civil conflict to peace? This dissertation investigates factors that influence civil conflict resolution. There are four key findings. First, democratisation reforms are likely to prompt peace talks with rebel groups. There are costs associated with …
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Rural households and shocks: Asset transfer, migration and civil conflict
… health impacts of the 1996-2006 Nepalese civil conflict using information on conflict incidents at the village level, which allows me to identify the effects of exposure to conflict more accurately than prior studies. Moreover, I am able to track the impact of conflict on health outcomes …
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Suffering and sovereignty: civil conflict, convert aid and international humanitarian law
… shifting of concerns in favour of the welfare of civilians in civil wars over the interests to safeguard the security of the nation-state. In light of the above, the discussion here considers three civil conflicts: the civil wars in Nigeria and Ethiopia and the persecution of Kurds in Iraq. The …
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Combining Grievance and Feasibility: Improving our Understanding of Civil Conflict Onset
… to improve our understanding of the drivers of civil conflict through a synthesis of the grievance and feasibility approaches. It begins with two premises. The first is that the proponents of the feasibility explanation of conflict onset—who suggest that civil conflict will occur where it can …
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The spread of violent civil conflict : rare state-driven, and preventable
… tests an explanation for the spread of violent civil conflict from one state to another. The fear of such "substate conflict contagion" is frequently invoked by American policymakers as a justification for military intervention in ongoing substate conflicts -- the argument these policymakers …
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Multidisciplinary Approach to Civil Conflict: Political, Economic, and Social Determinants of Violence
… abundant and less severe than interstate war, civil conflict has filled the news headlines worldwide, especially with nonviolent domestic instability. To this day, no single theoretical framework can fully explain this complex phenomenon. Scholars have often focused on one domain area as a …
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Nowhere to run: measuring how refugee flows and rights shape civil conflict
<p>In civil wars, innocent civilians live in the shadow of violence and destruction. This can range from low-level violence to aggressive campaigns of shelling of urban areas and massacres of entire villages in rural settings. In some cases, civilians respond to this violence by fleeing from the …
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The people and the mob: The ideology of civil conflict in modern Europe
One of the many results of the French Revolution was that it decisively established the potential of the masses to have a radical effect on European politics. These new political actors were typically depicted in one of two opposite ways; as the virtuous people or as the wicked mob. However, these …
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What Kind of Peace? Conflict Termination, Peacebuilding Strategies, and the Post-Civil Conflict Environment
… how we understand the impact of different post-conflict elements. Though there is acknowledgment that conflicts terminate in different ways, very little is understood regarding the impact of that termination on the long-term peace outcomes. Utilizing a dependent variable that treats the …
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Inference in tough places : essays on modeling and matching with applications to civil conflict
… particular application to situations of violent conflict. The first essay utilizes quasi-experimental conditions to examine the effects of violence against civilians in Darfur, Sudan on attitudes towards peace and reconciliation. The second and third essays both address a common but overlooked …
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Education and Civil Conflict: The Negative Effects of Intolerant Curricula in Kosovo, Pakistan, and Sudan
… either acted as an instigator or mitigator of civil conflict, though to what extent is still largely unknown. In this thesis, I argue that both the extent and quality of education in a country can instigate or, at least, exacerbate the outbreak of civil conflict. To prove this hypothesis, I …
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Factors Which Prolong Civil Conflict in Africa: The Case of Angola, Liberia and Sierra Leone
<p>It has been a long journey for this thesis accomplishment and now finally it is accomplished. First and foremost I thank God for my mother, <em>Seskhutshwe, </em>who has always wanted her children to accomplish through education. It would not have been possible of course without my dad, Judge …
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Civil Conflict in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Spain, Italy, and Britain, 1968--2001
This study has implications for how violence, identity, and ideas of sovereignty and political order converge and, importantly, shape the actions of challenger groups and target states.
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