Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War

Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War Revisited∗

∗This work was supported by the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences at the University of Washington with funds from the University Initiatives Funds. In addition, Quinn acknowledges research support under NSF Grant SES 01-36676. †Department of Political Science and CSSS, University of Washington, [email protected] ‡Department of Sociology, University of Washington, [email protected]...

Places to Hide: Terrain, Ethnicity, and Civil War

Terrain is central to understanding why some countries have contentious ethnic divisions, while others do not. We argue that access to variable rugged terrain facilitated the development and survival of more distinct ethnic groups, even in the face of government repression. We show that the persistence of greater ethnic diversity in highly variable rugged areas as well as these ethnic groups te...

Economic Shocks , Civil War & Ethnicity Thorsten Janus & Daniel Riera - Crichton

We document a non-monotonic effect of economic downturns on civil war onset using a novel country panel dataset. Declining commodity terms of trade or income levels increase civil war risk significantly in countries with intermediate levels of ethnic diversity. In highly diverse or homogenous societies, if anything, economic declines help to prevent civil war. Given that the size of the largest...

Globalization and Civil War

Inequality, Ethnicity and Civil Conflict

We explore the connection between inequality and civil conflict by focusing on the mediating role of ethnic identity. Using over 200 individual-level surveys from 89 countries, we provide a new data set with countryand group-level measures of inequality within and across ethnic groups. We then show that consistent with Esteban and Ray’s (2011) argument about the need for labor and capital to fi...