Beyond greed and grievance: feasibility and civil war

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Breaking the resource curse: Transparency in the natural resource sector and the extractive industries transparency initiative (2014, positive): “In other words, the effectiveness of the government to make quality policies can be undermined by large in ﬂ ows of revenue generated from natural resources (Collier and Hoef ﬂ er, 2008; Iimi, 2007).”
Seeds of distrust: conflict in Uganda (2012, background): “Civil conﬂicts have persistent devastating effects on economic development (Collier and Hoefﬂer 2004; Collier et al. 2009), and their legacy involves more than physical and human capital destruction.”
Ethnicity and Conflict: An Empirical Study (2012, methodology): “We therefore use as a proxy the “cultural” distances computed by Fearon (2003) and Desmet et al. (2009, 2010).”
The youth unemployment challenge in Africa: What are the drivers? (2016, background): “The ‘youth bulge’ explanation of youth unemployment has been stretched to account for the incidence of civil war in Africa: Collier et al. (2009) argue the urgent need to address the impact of the high and increasing youth population as a means to avert civil wars in Africa.”