Understanding Civil War : Evidence and Analysis, Volume 1. Africa
By Paul Collier, Nicholas Sambanis. 2005
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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.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science
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In Sociology and Political Science
- Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
- Lars-Erik Cederman
- Michael L. Ross
- Erwin H. Bulte
- J. Colgan
- Eric Neumayer
- Paul Collier
- F. van der ploeg
In Soil Science
Citations in the corpus
- The Politics of the Resource Curse: A Review (2020, background): “…some ways it resembles the other branches: it brings together cross-national quantitative work and qualitative, theoretically-informed case studies (Collier and Sambanis, 2005; Kaldor, Karl and Said, 2007; Omeje, 2008); most published studies identify a harmful effect, albeit a conditional one;…”
- Introduction to Special Issue on “Disaggregating Civil War” (2009, background): “In an edited two-volume study, Collier and Sambanis (2005a, 2005b) present a series of case studies that probe the validity of Collier and Hoeffler’s (2004) well known model of civil war onset.”