Understanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysis, Volume 2. Europe, Central Asia, and Other Regions

Paul Collier and Nicholas Sambanis

No 7438 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: The two volumes of Understanding Civil War build upon the World Bank's prior research on conflict and violence, particularly on the work of Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler, whose model of civil war onset has sparked much discussion on the relationship between conflict and development in what came to be known as the "greed" versus "grievance" debate. The authors systematically apply the Collier-Hoeffler model to 15 countries in 6 different regions of the world, using a comparative case study methodology to revise and expand upon economic models of civil war. (The countries selected are Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan, Algeria, Mali, Senegal, Indonesia, Lebanon, Russian Federation, Colombia, Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and the Caucasus.) The book concludes that the "greed" versus "grievance" debate should be abandoned for a more complex model that considers greed and grievance as inextricably fused motives for civil war.

Keywords: Services; and; Transfers; to; Poor; Peace; and; Peacekeeping; Conflict; and; Development-International; Affairs; Social; Development-Social; Conflict; and; Violence; Social; Development-Post; Conflict; Reintegration; Poverty; Reduction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8213-6049-1
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