Understanding Civil War

Evidence and Analysis - Europe, Central Asia, and Other Regions

Paul Collier, Nicholas Sambanis

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Year: 2005
• eBook ISBN: 9780821360507
• Edition: 0

The two volumes of 'Understanding Civil War' build upon the World Bank's prior research on conflict and violence, particularly on the work of Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler, whose model of civil war onset has sparked much discussion on the relationship between conflict and development in what came to be known as the 'greed' versus 'grievance' debate. The authors systematically apply the Collier-Hoeffler model to 15 countries in 6 different regions of the world, using a comparative case study methodology to revise and expand upon economic models of civil war. The book concludes that the 'greed' versus 'grievance' debate should be abandoned for a more complex model that considers greed and grievance as inextricably fused motives for civil war.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• 1 The Collier–Hoeffler Model of Civil War Onset and the Case Study Project Research Design
• 2 Resources and Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia
• 3 The Lebanese Civil War, 1975–90
• 4 Crime, Violence, and Political Conflict in Russia
• 5 Conflict, Violence, and Crime in Colombia
• 6 The “Troubles” of Northern Ireland: Civil Conflict in an Economically Well-Developed State
• 7 Bosnia’s Civil War: Origins and Violence Dynamics
• 8 Greed and Grievance Diverted: How Macedonia Avoided Civil War, 1990–2001
• 9 Civil Wars in the Caucasus
• 10 Conclusion: Using Case Studies to Refine and Expand the Theory of Civil War
• Contributors
• Index
• Figures
• Tables