CONCLUSION: DEMOCRACY AND VIOLENCE, EARLY WARNING AND CONFLICT PREVENTION – IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE Marc Chernick The six chapters presented here each provide a different optic from which to view the functioning of democratic governance, violent conflict, and the relationships among the various components of each. Four of the chapters address political processes (García Villeg...

public order, as a principle in the framework of national laws, is a tool for protecting private and public interests in a society. observance of the norms and public order in any jurisdiction is important as far as the the influence of this chariness on contracts in the field of private international laws is undeniable. with the formation of new rights such as intellectual property rights in t...

The main goal of this project is to analyze the mechanisms of trade boycotts and their effectiveness in disrupting international trade flows. International boycotts are a special form of non-violent conflict between countries and are often sparked by nationalist or religious feelings. Similar to violent forms of conflict like war, they are costly and ex-post inefficient as they destroy rents in...

VOLUME XVIII – 2003 INTRODUCTION: CONFLICT, POST-CONFLICT, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Post-conflict rehabilitation and reconstruction are areas of emerging concern for international policy makers. Of course, this is not to undermine the importance of conflict and displacement for development in the contemporary world. For example, the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) alone has con...

Acknowledgements – we wish to thank the following institutions for assistance: National Science Foundation, the National University of Rwanda in Butare – in particular, the Centre for Conflict Management, the University of Maryland, in particular, the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, Dartmouth College, and the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda. We would also...

Cullen S. Hendrix, visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, is Assistant Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary. His areas of research include the economic and security implications of climate change, food security, and civil conflict. He is the coauthor of Science and the International Politics of Climate Change (2010) and Food Insecurity and Vio...

Armed conflict has a major impact on child health throughout the world. One in six children worldwide lives in an area of armed conflict and civilians are more likely to die than soldiers as a result of the conflict. In stark contrast to the effect on children, the international arms trade results in huge profits for the large corporations involved in producing arms, weapons and munitions. Arme...

Understanding the causes of interstate conflict continues to be a primary goal of the field of international relations. To that end, scholars continue to rely on large datasets of conflict in the international system. This paper introduces the latest iteration in the most widely used dataset on interstate conflicts, the Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) 4 data. In this paper we first outline...

Dyad-year data on international conflict are simultaneously qualitative and serially dependent. Extending Beck, Katz, and Tucker’s (1998) methodological contribution, I propose transitional models that deal with these two features of the data. These statistical models explicitly deal with the way a dyad’s particular history of peace or conflict structures current outcomes, consistent with impor...

This article examines the most recent shift in ongoing debates concerning the relationship between international criminal law and transitional justice, using the examples of international criminal prosecutions before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and transitional justice mechanisms in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It reframes the problematic relationship between...