, social science research has inadequately addressed the question of how and to what extent religion matters for conflict in … Africa. This paper presents an innovative data inventory on religion and violent conflict in all sub-Saharan countries for … the period 1990–2008 that seeks to contribute to filling the gap. The data underscore that religion has to be accounted …

This paper analyzes the role of religion with regard to the violence experienced during the past 20 years in Côte d …’Ivoire. It seeks to explain the differences in the level of violence over time by focusing on religion as an identity marker and …‐/ out‐group mechanism utilized in Côte d’Ivoire in the 1990s, while the political elites tried to politicize religion. In …

, institutions can work on ethnic conflict by either accommodating (“consociationalists”) or denying (“integrationists”) ethnicity in … mostly inconclusive. The following questions remain open: a) Is politicized ethnicity really a conflict risk? b) What impact … conflict risks? …

rent-seeking to conflict and sports. We first examine the theoretical foundations of contest functions and classify them …

static contest model, in which two sides choose levels of arming and whether to engage in actual conflict or settle in the … shadow of conflict. We show how arming critically depends on both governance and norms, and therefore how societies with …

We construct a model of conflict and trade to study the consequences of interstate disputes over contested resources … comparative advantage in the absence of conflict. And, where such conflict is present, comparisons of autarkic prices to world …

costs of conflict or self-enforcement swamp the familiar gains from trade for a certain range of world prices. Finally …

identification and domestic conflict affect a nation's military capability? Models that link structural variables, power politics … identification and domestic conflict, and the nation's future war-fighting capability. We show that, when inter-state war can … reducing internal conflict by increasing investments in state capacity. In certain settings, it is only through the anticipated …