Local determinants of African civil wars, 1970–2001

Buhaug, Halvard; Rød, Jan Ketil

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.02.005

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“…In fact, in many cases, bloody conflicts are localized in resource-abundant regions (Buhaug and Rod, 2006;Buhaug and Gates, 2002). At the same time, other territories are not greatly affected by war and predation.…”

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Butter, Guns and Ice‐cream Theory and Evidence From Sub‐saharan Africa

Caruso

2010

Defence and Peace Economics

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Butter, Guns and Ice‐cream Theory and Evidence From Sub‐saharan Africa

Caruso

2010

Defence and Peace Economics

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“…Likewise, the habitual unit of analysis -the country -is increasingly replaced by grid cells (e.g. Buhaug & Rød, 2006;Raleigh & Urdal, 2007), geographically distinct ethnic groups (e.g. Buhaug, Cederman & Rød, 2008;Weidmann, 2009) or subnational administrative entities (e.g.…”

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PRIO-GRID: A unified spatial data structure

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Buhaug

2012

Journal of Peace Research

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Contributions to the quantitative civil war literature increasingly rely on geo-referenced data and disaggregated research designs. While this is a welcome trend, it necessitates geographic information systems (GIS) skills and imposes new challenges for data collection and analysis. So far, solutions to these challenges differ between studies, obstructing direct comparison of findings and hampering replication and extension of earlier work. This article presents a standardized structure for storing, manipulating, and analyzing high-resolution spatial data. PRIO-GRID is a vector grid network with a resolution of 0.5 x 0.5 decimal degrees, covering all terrestrial areas of the world. Gridded data comprise inherently apolitical entities; the grid cells are fixed in time and space, they are insensitive to political boundaries and developments, and they are completely exogenous to likely features of interest, such as civil war outbreak, ethnic settlement patterns, extreme weather events, or the spatial distribution of wealth. Moreover, unlike other disaggregated approaches, gridded data may be scaled up or down in a consistent manner by varying the resolution of the grid. The released dataset comes with cell-specific information on a large selection of political, economic, demographic, environmental, and conflict variables for all years, 1946-2008. A simple descriptive data assessment of population density and economic activity is offered to demonstrate how PRIO-GRID may be applied in quantitative social science research.

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“…12 argue that the reason behind the positive relationship between distance and internal conflict duration might result from the government's inability to control the hinterlands "because of the sheer distance from the center of state power." (p. 318).…”

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“…In fact several authors argued that there has been "a tendency to neglect the spatial context" in civil wars (Buhaug & Rod,4 ). In a similar vein, Schutte and Weidmann (2011) 5 argued that the geographic aspect of civil wars has not been systematically examined because of the failure to understand how insurgent activities unfold in time-space domains.…”

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