Governments in conflict torn states scramble for effective policies to persistently reduce levels of violence. This … insurgency violence and thus, contributes to persistently lower levels of violence. … paper provides evidence that a workfare program that functions as a social insurance, providing employment opportunities in …

The prolonged insurgency in Southern Thailand has claimed thousands of victims since the outbreak of major violence in … violence is concentrated in clusters of sub-districts forming hotbeds of conflict. Drivers of conflict are identified through a … comparative analysis of the hotspots of violence with less violent areas. The analysis shows that identity manifested in language …

global attention. Parts of India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal have experienced long-running conflict. Conflicts result in death …, misery, social trauma, destruction of infrastructure, and have huge spillover effects. What is conflict? Where is it … concentrated? Is conflict a problem for development, or a failure of development? What should policy makers do? …

that power produces countervailing incentives and opportunities for violence. While greater military capabilities present … more opportunities for death and destruction, incentives for anti-civilian violence should decline as the range of war … rely on local support, violence declines as group capabilities increase. By contrast, when rebels rely on alternative …

supporters. These hypotheses are tested using data on one-sided violence from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. The statistical …This article explores the strategic motivations for insurgent violence against civilians. It argues that violence is a … function of insurgent capacity and views violence and security as selective benefits that insurgents manipulate to encourage …

. To some extent, the dynamics of insurgency and counter-insurgency can be described by two distinct cycles of violence … different dimensions of the conflict. The authors find that the combination of political repression and military counter-insurgency …The authors analyse newly collected time-series data measuring the dimensions of violent political conflict in Egypt …

insurgency. Counterinsurgency measures can reduce the effectiveness of resistance and alter the level of support for the …

violence because it helps win the “hearts and minds” of local people. For the case of Afghanistan, we show there is no evidence … from 2005 to 2009, we find no discernible effect of the reconstruction effort on violence. In light of the absence of …

While some of the intrastate war literature calls for the disaggregation of civil conflict, most of those studies focus … on the geography of civil conflict failing to take into account the various actors involved in such conflicts. This study … addresses the multi-actor nature of civil conflict by examining whether 'actor aggregation' affects the inferences drawn from …