When and How Do Militias Disband? Global Patterns of Pro-Government Militia Demobilization in Civil Wars

The Impact of Pro-Government Militias on Human Rights Violations

Forgotten Actors: Exploring the Use of Pro-Government Militias

Strategic Protection, Pro-Government Interventions, and Violence against Civilians in Civil Wars

When Civil Wars Recur: Conditions for Durable Peace after Civil Wars

We argue that the duration of the peace after civil wars is mainly a function of the extent to which the outcome of the previous civil war preserved a condition of multiple sovereignty and the extent to which the post-civil war environment creates incentives for dissident groups to resort to violence rather than sustain the peace. Hazard models suggest that the outcome of the previous conflict ...

Do Ethnic and Nonethnic Civil Wars Have the Same Causes?

A booming quantitative literature on large-scale political violence has identified important economic and political determinants of civil war. That literature has treated civil war as an aggregate category and has not considered if identity (ethnic/religious) wars have different causes than nonidentity wars. The author argues that this is an important distinction and that identity wars are due ...