contributed significantly to the frequency, incidence, and onset of both overall and ethnic civil conflict over the last half …-century, accounting for a large set of geographical and institutional correlates of conflict, as well as measures of economic development … the incidence of intragroup factional conflict. These findings arguably reflect the contribution of genetic diversity to …

Does higher resource inequality between ethnic groups lead to ethnic conflict? In this paper, we empirically … increases the risk of ethnic conflict by 16 percentage points (or 0.43 standard deviations). This relationship depends on the …

This paper presents a theoretical model to show how distributional concerns can engender social conflict. We have a two … stop conflict from arising the anticipated future inequality is significant. Further we find that the impact of inequality … on conflict is not straightforward. Societies with low levels of inequality show no conflict; groups engage in conflict …