Why are There so Many Civil Wars in Africa? Understanding and Preventing Violent Conflict

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A Review of Recent Advances and Future Directions in the Quantitative Literature on Civil War (2002, background): “His conclusions are in line with Elbadawi and Sambanis (2000a) and he empirically confirms three logical explanations for the occurrence of external intervention: they occur when (a) there is a reasonable expectation of success; (b) the projected time horizon for intervention is short; and (c)…”
Patronage and Political Stability in Africa (2009, background): “Twenty countries have also endured at least one episode of civil war since independence (Elbadawi & Sambanis, 2000).”
A Closer Look at Oil, Diamonds, and Civil War (2006, background): “…manuscript; Sambanis 2004a; Collier & Sambanis 2005); a special concern for Africa, where a rising fraction of the world’s civil wars are found (Elbadawi & Sambanis 2000, Herbst 2000, Azam 2001, Collier & Hoeffler 2002, Leonard & Strauss 2003) the development of better civil war datasets…”