Conflict, Civil War and Underdevelopment: An Introduction

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Spatial-Horizontal Inequality and the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal (2005, background): “This is what Addison and Murshed (2001) and Murshed (2002a) refer to as the “social contract.””
Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing? (2011, background): “Weak institutions may explain poor performance of oil-rich states such as Angola, Nigeria, Sudan, and Venezuela, diamondrich Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Congo, and drug states Colombia and Afghanistan.”
When Does Natural Resource Abundance Lead to a Resource Curse (2004, background): “In this new literature, a distinction is often made between grievance, a motivation based on a sense of injustice in the way a social group is treated, often with a strong historical dimension; and greed, an acquisitive desire similar to crime, albeit on a much larger scale (see Murshed 2002).”
Irevisiting The Greed And Grievance Explanations For Violent Internal Conflict (2009, background): “Addison, Le Billon, and Murshed (2002) construct a game-theoretic model of contemporary conflict involving the competition for resources combined with historical grievances.”
Can the Natural Resource Curse Be Turned Into a Blessing? The Role of Trade Policies and Institutions (2007, background): “18 Also, see Skaperdas (2002), Murshed (2002), Fearon and Laitin (2003), and Ross (2004).”