most difficult to realise. Debates in Peace and Conflict Studies have followed other Social Science debates in exiting the … regional dimension is no longer acknowledged as an important intervening variable in peace and conflict dynamics. This article …

Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on numerous education, health and … socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from this research is the heterogeneity in the effect of violent conflict across and within … countries. In this paper we attempt to estimate the casual impact of conflict in Nigeria on welfare related outcomes. The 2009 …

provide a proxy for counter-insurgency efforts by the government. We show that the increase in violence is primarily driven by … organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the … violence. By combining different data sources and implementing a new approach to deal with potential double-counting, we …