Buying peace or fuelling war: the role of corruption in armed conflicts

By Philippe Le Billon. 2003

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Oil abundance and violent political conflict: A critical assessment (2007, background): “Such arrangements, according to this model, can reduce a regime's legitimacy and reduce its military, administrative, political and economic power, which, in turn, can render the regime vulnerable to rebellion (Reno, 2002 ; Le Billon, 2003 ).”
• Corrupting or Consolidating the Peace? The Drugs Economy and Post-conflict Peacebuilding in Afghanistan (2008, background): “However, it has also been argued that corruption may facilitate the creation of a new political order (or the consolidation of an old one) and the dividends of peace obtained through corruption may outweigh the costs of inefficiencies.(6) Put another way, donors may have to accept that priming the p”
• Climate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015, background): “…and authoritarian rule founded on narrow patronage coalitions—common features among many African regimes—foster public disloyalty and lack of trust in political institutions and may provide the breeding ground within which any of these social outcomes can play out (Le Billon 2003, Arriola 2009).”