Documents et rapports
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Explaining the demand for sovereignty (anglais)
Why do groups want to secede and where are we most likely to see demands for self-determination? This paper proposes an economic explanation whereby a tradeoff between income and sovereignty implies that...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5888 Date du document: 1 novembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sambanis,Nicholas,Milanovic,Branko L.
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Defence and peace economics : a review of recent advances and future directions in the quantitative literature on civil war (anglais)
Why is it important to study civil war? Five reasons have been suggested: 'civil war is widespread; it causes tremendous suffering; it almost always affects and involves neighboring states, thereby undermining...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 63048 Date du document: 29 juin 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sambanis,Nicholas
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Short- and long-term effects of United Nations peace operations (anglais)
In an earlier study Doyle and Sambanis (2000) showed that United Nations (UN) peace operations have made positive contributions to peace building in the short term, helping parties implement peace agreements...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77567 Date du document: 1 janvier 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sambanis,Nicholas
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Short-term and long-term effects of United Nations peace operations (anglais)
Earlier studies have shown that United Nations peace operations make a positive contribution to peacebuilding efforts after civil wars. But do these effects carry over to the period after the peacekeepers...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4207 Date du document: 1 avril 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sambanis,Nicholas
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Using case studies to expand the theory of civil war (anglais)
The Collier-Hoeffler (2000) model of civil war onset (henceforth called CH) has been very influential in shaping current research on the relationship between conflict and development. Its main thesis is...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 26670 Date du document: 1 mai 2003 Auteur: Sambanis,Nicholas
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Breaking the conflict trap : civil war and development policy (anglais)
Most wars are now civil wars. Even though international wars attract enormous global attention, they have become infrequent and brief. Civil wars usually attract less attention, but they have become increasingly...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 56793 Date du document: 1 janvier 2003 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Collier,Paul,Elliott,Lydia Victorine,Hegre,Havard,Hoeffler,Anke Elisabeth,Reynal-Querol,Marta,Sambanis,Nicholas
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Preventing violent civil conflict: the scope and limits of government action (anglais)
In this paper, the author provides a review of the scope and limits for government and international action to prevent the outbreak of civil war. It includes a brief review of the literature on violent...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 27843 Date du document: 22 juillet 2002 Auteur: Sambanis,Nicholas
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Understanding civil war: a new agenda (anglais)
This paper is a summary of several papers written in regards to civil war in low-income countries. It draws several comparisons between the other papers and addresses the importance of understanding how...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 28129 Date du document: 13 décembre 2001 Auteur: Collier,Paul,Sambanis,Nicholas
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Policies for building post-conflict peace (anglais)
Civil wars always end, but they usually restart. Globally, with the first ten years of the end of a conflict, 31 percent of them have resumed. African conflicts are even more prone to restart than the...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 63049 Date du document: 1 octobre 2001 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bigombe,Betty Oyella,Collier,Paul,Sambanis,Nicholas
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How much war will we see? Estimating the incidence of civil war in 161 countries (anglais)
Quantitative studies of civil war have focused either on war's onset, or its termination, producing important insights into these end points of the process. The authors complement these studies by studying...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2533 Date du document: 31 janvier 2001 Auteur: Elbadawi,Ibrahim Ahmed,Sambanis,Nicholas
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Why are there so many civil wars in Africa? prevention of future conflicts and promotion of inter-group cooperation (anglais)
Contrary to popular belief, Africa's civil wars are not due to its ethnic and religious diversity. Using recently developed models of the overall prevalence of civil wars in 161 countries between 1960-1999...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 28130 Date du document: 1 décembre 2000 Auteur: Collier,Paul,Elbadawi,Ibrahim Ahmed,Sambanis,Nicholas
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External interventions and the duration of civil wars (anglais)
The authors combine an empirical model of external intervention, with a theoretical model of civil war duration. Their empirical model of intervention allows them to analyze civil war duration, using "expected"...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2433 Date du document: 30 septembre 2000 Auteur: Elbadawi,Ibrahim Ahmed,Sambanis,Nicholas
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Ethnic partition as a solution to ethnic war - an empirical critique of the theoretical literature (anglais)
Some theorists of ethnic conflict argue that the physical separation of warring ethnic groups may be the only possible solution to civil war. Without territorial partition and (if needed) forced population...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2208 Date du document: 31 octobre 1999 Auteur: Sambanis,Nicholas