Why Do Some Civil Wars Last So Much Longer than Others?

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War as a Commitment Problem (2004, background): “…completeinformation setting+37 Powell shows that a common mechanism is at work in several of these studies, namely, in Acemoglu and Robinson’s explanation of political transitions, Fearon’s analysis of prolonged civil war, de Figueiredo’s account of costly policy insulation, and Fearon’s and…”
Irevisiting The Greed And Grievance Explanations For Violent Internal Conflict (2009, background): “Contraband dummy—conflicts in which a rebel group derives major funds from contraband such as opium, diamonds or coca tend to have longer civil war duration ( Fearon, 2004 ).”
Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Resource Abundance, Dependence and the Onset of Civil Wars (2009, background): “For more work on these issues, refer to Doyle and Sambanis (2000), Ballantine (2003), Ross (2003, 2004b), and Fearon (2004).”
Natural Resources, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution (2005, background): “This lends prima facie support to the notion that the”
The Armed Peace: A Punctuated Equilibrium Theory of War (2007, background): “Suppose that given the current stocks (k1, k2; S), the war can last at most T more periods.”