partly spills over into the next period, by affecting relative conflict efficiency. Our model generates non …-monotone evolution of both conflict and distribution. Results suggest that external interventions, when effective in reducing current … conflict and protecting weaker groups, may end up sowing the seeds of greater future conflict. …

We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …

negative (or weaker positive) consumption spillovers across communities may reduce inter-group conflict and increase aggregate … socially beneficial consequences. We also identify conditions under which their impact will be both conflict-augmenting and … feedback loops linking ethnic conflict and natural resource degradation in developing country contexts. …

conflict. Both ideologues lose in success probability, but gain in expected utility. Elimination of the mercenary increases … conflict and makes the ideologues more successful yet worse off. Our results rationalize "imperial peace" - long periods of …

-group population. Any unilateral increase in fragmentation within a group reduces conflict and makes its opponent better off. The …

inequality between the rich and others within a community depresses between-group conflict. Within-group conflict may fall as … well. The "paradox of power" is violated for both kinds of conflict - better-endowed individuals are more successful in the … internal conflict, while better-endowed groups are more successful in the external conflict. …