Dominic Rohner

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an empirical analysis of what makes countries prone to civil war using a global panel data set and examine different determinants of civil war for the period 1960-2004.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of mining activity on the probability/intensity of conflict at the local level is investigated. And the authors find direct evidence that the appropriation of a mining area by a group increases the probability that this group perpetrates future violence elsewhere.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of mining activity on the probability/intensity of conflict at the local level was studied empirically using geo-referenced information over the 1997-2010 period on the location and characteristics of violent events and mining extraction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the higher the income of a country, the more likely it is to be favorable to political violence, whereas in rich countries democracy makes countries safer, below an income threshold democracy increases the propensity for political violence.

TL;DR: This article studied the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on Uganda's experience during the last decade using individual and county-level data, and found that more intense fighting decreases generalized trust and increases ethnic identity, and that post-conflict economic recovery is slower in ethnically fractionalized counties.