Essays about: "conflict onset"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 29 essays containing the words conflict onset.

1. 6. Economic Interdependence and Conflict: The case of the post-Soviet space

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Linn Alice Backlund; [2022]
   Keywords : Trade; Interdependence; Conflict; Former Soviet Union; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : There is still little consensus on whether trade promotes peace or not This thesis aims at investigating the relationship between economic interdependence and conflicts in post-Soviet countries, contributing to the empirical literature on the regional level. Using dyadic measures of trade and conflict, I investigate the relationship between interdependence and onset conflict, ongoing conflict, and conflict intensity. READ MORE

3. 7. CONSCRIPTION WITH CONSEQUENCES? Exploring the Effects of Military Personnel Supply Method Choice on Civil War Onset

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

   Author : Victor Hasslöf; [2021]
   Keywords : Civil War; Civil War Onset; Conscription; Military Policy; Voluntary Service; Quantitative; War; Military Personnel; Military Manpower; Military Manpower Studies; Cause Of Civil War; Conflict; Conscription With Consequences; Inbördeskrig; Värnplikt; Orsak; Militärpolicy;

   Abstract : Positing that the characteristics of a state’s military has an effect on civil war outbreak likelihood, this thesis examines a hitherto unexplored relationship —that between military personnel supply method and civil war onset. Based on earlier research on the two phenomena separate from each other, a theory linking conscription to an increased probability of civil war onset compared to voluntary service was developed and an hypothesis derived. READ MORE

4. 8. Militarization: A Witch's War Brew? : How military power affects authoritarian regimes' behavior

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

   Author : Lina Sigurdh; [2021]
   Keywords : Militarization; autocratization; conflict onset; conflict behavior; military power;

   Abstract : The effect of regime type on conflict onset is a well-studied phenomenon, and various studies have found that variance in regime type, and within regime types, affects conflict onset. For instance, militarization in autocracies seems to be linked with increased risk of initiating conflict. READ MORE

5. 9. Guns, Rebels & Pasture in the Great Acceleration : Decreasing land productivity and conflict intensity in South Sudan

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

   Author : Akseli Laurila; [2021]
   Keywords : Pastoralism; land productivity; South Sudan; desertification; climate change; livelihoods.;

   Abstract : The relationship between environmental change and violent conflict has increasingly received attention in recent years. Most of the research has focused on fast-onset environmental disasters, rather than slow-moving environmental processes, however. READ MORE

6. 10. Examining Mediation Onset in Recurring Conflicts

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

   Author : Wera Terhaag; [2021]
   Keywords : Recurring Conflicts; Mediation; Mediation Onset; Indonesia; West Papua; Aceh;

   Abstract : After the Cold War, mediation as an armed conflict resolution process was thought to become an increasingly common tool to address even the most complex armed conflicts. Recurring conflicts especially should be the focus of mediation. READ MORE