Relative Resources: Inequality in Ethnic Wars, Revolutions, and Genocides

By Marie Besançon. 2005

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

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Citations in the corpus

• Population, Resources, and Political Violence (2008, background): “Furthermore, Besançon (2005) finds that the risk of ethnic conflict is greater in societies with high levels of economic equality (providing opportunities for rebellion) and low levels of social (educational) equality (providing motives). stby (2008) somewhat contrarily finds that systematic…”
• Diamond Wars? Conflict Diamonds and Geographies of Resource Wars (2008, background): “According to the political economy literature, the characteristics of countries most vulnerable to civil war since 1946 are low per capita income, declining economic growth rate, “weak” state coercive capacity and institutional authority, and political regimes in transition, although the influence o”
• A Vision for Human Well-Being: Transition to Social Sustainability (2012, unknown): “Inequality may promote conflict within and between ethnic groups, classes and societies [4 ,68–74], and drive international immigration [75–77].”