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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Intrastate conflict"”.
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Climate Change and Intrastate Conflict in Africa
… histories of violence or are currently mired in conflict. Africa's proneness to conflict and its vulnerability to climate change provide the best model for showing how climate change, by the way it interacts with other, better understood drivers of conflict, will likely become an important source …
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A Tacticians Guide to Conflict, Vol. 1: Advancing Explanations & Predictions of Intrastate Conflict
<p>Intrastate conflict is an ever-evolving problem – causes, explanation, and predictions are increasingly murky as traditional methods of analysis focus on structural issues as precursors of conflict. Often times these theories do not consider the underlying meso and micro dynamics that can …
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The Oil Blessing: Reexamining Conflict in the Muslim World
… conventional wisdom holds that oil causes intrastate conflict and that oil in particular explains the prevalence of domestic political violence in the Muslim world. I show that the relationship between oil and intrastate conflict in the empirical literature is more ambiguous than commonly …
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The Short-term and Long-term Relationship between Public Sentiment and Insurgency Violence in 3 Southern Provinces of Thailand
… to developing and improving the theory on the intrastate conflict and public sentiment as well as the conventional wisdom on the conflict study as well as developing new analytical framework for studying intrastate conflict and for informing policymakers to deliver or adjust for a better policy …
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Rethinking Civil War
<p>Why do some civil conflicts simmer at low-intensity, while others escalate to war? When and why do some civil conflicts experience cycles of escalation and de-escalation? This dissertation challenges traditional approaches to intrastate conflict by arguing the need to distinguish both …
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Transformation of Rebel Movements into Political Parties in Transitions from Civil Conflict: A Study of Rebels' Decision-Making amid Violence in El Salvador and Zimbabwe
<p>Efforts to understand modern intrastate conflict require examination of the varied interactions between states and non–state entities battling for control of government. A growing number of civil wars and separatist conflicts, particularly following the end of the Cold War, have been resolved …
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Ba ne’bé: where are you going? the changing nature of United Nations peacekeeping in Timor Leste
… this gap this research draws upon the lessons of intrastate conflict and state-failure in post-colonial states during the 1990s and uses an institutional peace-building framework to evaluate the impact of the UN’s political reconstruction efforts in Timor Leste. This study traces Timor Leste’s …
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How Civil Wars End: The Influence of Rebel Groups
… even among states with comparable risks to conflict, such as poverty, ethnic cleavages, political instability, and state weakness. Understanding why some civil conflicts terminate through peace agreements and military victories while others often fail to end decisively requires attention to …
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How Civil Wars End: The Influence of Rebel Groups
… even among states with comparable risks to conflict, such as poverty, ethnic cleavages, political instability, and state weakness. Understanding why some civil conflicts terminate through peace agreements and military victories while others often fail to end decisively requires attention to …
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National and international crisis management: the influence of Libyan intervention on the duration of the Darfur crisis
… intervention on the interstate crises and conflicts and each one's duration. The purpose of this study is to address the gaps and contradictions in the related literature. This study achieves this purpose by investigating the factors that drive the duration of intrastate conflicts, and …