International Network for Economics and Conflict

Omar Shahabudin McDoom of UNU-WIDER dedevelop a theoretical model to help identify areas vulnerable to violence during genocide and explains the model in this paper.

This paper critically examines the first variant of the rentier state model both on methodological and empirical grounds.

This paper critically examines the first variant of the rentier state model both on methodological and empirical grounds.

This paper reviews several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions such as, Why do wars begin? and Who fights? The authors then survey the growing body of macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence to assess the impacts of civil war on economic growth worldwide.

This paper seeks to understand how and why under certain circumstances compact settlements of large numbers of heterogeneous individuals give rise to violence, while in others they don’t, focusing in particular on wider structural factors as seen through the specific lens of urban gang violence.

This paper proposes two new concepts of non-state sovereign entrepreneurs and the non-territorial sovereign organizations they form, and relates them to issues pertaining to state sovereignty, governance failures, and violent social conflict over the appropriation of the powers that accrue to states in modern international law.

This toolkit is part of a series that explores how development assistance can address key risk factors associated with conflict. This paper focuses on the relationship between young people and violence.