Does foreign aid build peace? The answer is of paramount importance for policy makers
and practitioners, given that the world's poor are growing increasingly concentrated in …

Violence after civil war is a challenge to sustainable peace. Many armed conflicts today are
recurrences of previous wars and much of the literature on violence after war explains why …

This paper introduces the Non-State Actors in Armed Conflict Dataset (NSA), which contains
detailed information on the state–rebel group dyads included in the Uppsala Conflict Data …

This article presents new data on the start and end dates and the means of termination for
armed conflicts, 1946—2005. These data contribute to quantitative research on conflict …

The article reviews the literature on the relationship between democracy and armed conflict,
internal as well as interstate. The review points to several similarities between how …

Liberal peacebuilding has become the target of considerable criticism. Although much of this
criticism is warranted, a number of scholars and commentators have come to the opinion …

We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on Uganda's experience during
the last decade. Using individual and county-level data, we document large causal effects …

We combine data from the 2002 National Population Census and the distribution of the
number of human rights violations and victims across 22 departments to examine how …

Is peace more likely to prevail when the peace accord includes civil society actors such as
religious groups, women's organizations, and human rights groups? This is the first …

Why does peace fail? More precisely, why do some countries that show every sign of having
successfully emerged from civil war fall once again into armed conflict? What explains why …