1st Edition
Resources, Governance and Civil Conflict
This book explores how governance structures - domestic political institutions, international peacekeeping efforts, armed interventions by other states - and natural resources affect the onset, dynamics and the termination of civil wars.
Written by leading researchers in the field of conflict research, it provides new insights into, and offers fresh perspectives on the role of governance structures and resources in civil conflict, suggesting that many of the same set of factors play important roles in the onset and dynamics of civil conflict as well as in the termination of such conflicts and in post-conflict stability. Presenting a variety of theoretical approaches and case studies on India, Sudan, the Basque country and Costa Rica, Governance, Resources and Civil Conflict will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, international relations and conflict studies.
Part I. Introducing Civil Conflict
1. Introduction 1
Magnus Öberg and Kaare Strøm
2. Civil Conflict in the Contemporary World
Kristine Eck, Bethany Lacina, and Magnus Öberg
Part II. Causes and Dynamics
3. Insights from Macro Studies of the Risk of Civil War
Bethany Lacina
4. Civil Wars and Interstate Disputes
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch & Idean Salehyan
5. Robin Hood or Al Capone? Natural Resources and Conflict in India’s Naxalite Insurgency
Wm. Noël Ivey
6. Government Restructuring and Reallocation of Resources in the face of Ethno-Nationalist Insurgency in the Basque Country (1979-2005)
Enric Martínez-Herrera
7. Political Marginalization and Economic Exclusion in the Making of Insurgencies in Sudan
Aleksi Ylönen
8. Military Intervention, Democratization, and Post-conflict Political Stability
Scott Gates and Håvard Strand
Part III. Termination and Post-Conflict Stability
9. Enforcing Alone: Collective Action in Ethnic Conflicts Settlement
Theodora-Ismene Gizelis
10. From Bullets to Ballots: Using the People as Arbitrators to Settle Civil Wars
Margareta Sollenberg
11. Democracy after War: Causes and Consequences of the 1948 Civil War in Costa Rica
Fernando F. Sánchez
12. Democracies, Disengagement and Deals: Exploring the Effect of Different Types of Mediators in Civil Conflict
Isak Svensson
13. Rebels on the Outside: Signatories Signaling Commitment to Durable Peace 408
Desirée Nilsson
Part IV. Conclusions
14. Conclusions
Magnus Öberg and Kaare Strøm
Biography
Magnus Öberg is Director of Studies at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Civil War, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Norway.
Kaare Strøm is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, USA, and Research Professor, Centre for the Study of Civil War, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Norway.
