Executive summary The multiple and overlapping crises faced by countries, regions, and the
world appear unprecedented in their magnitude and complexity. Protracted conflicts …

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 …

In Lebanon, religious parties such as Hezbollah play a critical role in providing health care,
food, poverty relief, and other social welfare services alongside or in the absence of …

Previous studies suggest that women's access to political power often increases following
the termination of civil conflicts, particularly those ending in negotiated settlement. However …

For decades, peace and conflict studies have devoted more attention to conflict than to
peace, and despite its centrality, peace itself has been under-conceptualized. In this paper …

Past research on the relationship between power-sharing arrangements and the recurrence
of civil conflict has primarily analyzed the promises of power-sharing stipulated in peace …

Events such as the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria have created an urgent
need for the international community to engage with a range of armed groups during and …

Instruments based on realizations of the endogenous variable in other units—for instance,
regional or global weighted averages—are commonly used in political science. Such spatial …

Nowhere have the spillover effects of the overlapping domestic, regional and international
war for Syria proved more devastating than in Lebanon. 1 Whether in terms of increased …

Consociationalism has become a key institutional mechanism for managing conflict after
civil war. Proponents argue that a period of consociational influence can contribute to the …