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 …

country affected by a conflict, and we control for country size, poverty, geography and natural resource endowments. We show … that, consistent with the hypothesis, at the margin ethnic diversity makes conflict more probable, but also makes it more … likely to be localized. This finding is robust to persistence in the incidence and extent of conflict. This potentially …

In this paper we examine the link between ethnic and religious polariza- tion and conflict using interpersonal …- ization index. We measure conflict by means on an index of social unrest, as well as by the standard conflict onset or … fractionalization index. We also obtain that both ethnic and religious polarization are significant in explaining conflict. The results …

This paper investigates the relationship between linguistic polarization and conflict in the Basque Country. During the … underlying the conflict in the Basque Country. We show that at the municipality level, linguistic polarization reduces the level … of conflict. This finding is robust to various ways of measuring linguistic and ideological polarization and the …

In this paper we examine the link between ethnic and religious polariza- tion and conflict using interpersonal …- ization index. We measure conflict by means on an index of social unrest, as well as by the standard conflict onset or … fractionalization index. We also obtain that both ethnic and religious polarization are significant in explaining conflict. The results …

“mendaciously” pass for a member of another) to revisit the correlation between natural resources and the onset of conflict. The … true for linguistic and religious fractionalization. This is consistent with the “greed hypothesis” as a driver of conflict … resources on conflict is ambiguous. …