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POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER   2681
On  the  Duration                                                      The duration of large-scale,
violent civil conflict increases
of  Civil W ar                                                         substantially if the society is
composed of a few large
Paul Collier                                                           ethnic groups, if there is
Pank Hoeffler                                                          extensive forest cover, and if
Anke Hoeffler                                                          the conflict has commenced
since 1980. None of these
factors affects the initiation of
conflict. And neither the
duration nor the initiation of
conflict is affected by initial
inequality or political
repression.
The World Bank
Development Research Group
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POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER 2681
Summary findings
Collier, Hoeffler, and S6derbom model the duration of             since 1980. None of these factors affects the initiation of
large-scale, violent civil conflicts, applying hazard             conflict.
functions to a comprehensive data set on such conflicts             The authors also find that neither the duration nor the
for the period 1960-99. They find that the duration of            initiation of conflict is affected by initial inequality or
conflicts is determined by a substantially different set of       political repression. This finding is consistent with the
variables than those that determine their initiation. The         hypothesis that rebellions are initiated where they are
duration of conflict increases substantially if the society is    viable during conflict, regardless of the prospects of
composed of a few large ethnic groups, if there is                attaining post-conflict goals, and that they persist unless
extensive forest cover, and if the conflict has commenced         circumstances change.
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to study large scale violent conflict. Copies of the paper are available free from the World Bank, 1818 H Street NW,
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On the Duration of Civil War
Paul Collier,(), (2) Anke Hoeffler,(2) and Mans S6derbom(2)
(1)World Bank
(2)Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
Prepared for the World Bank, Development Research Group/University of California,
Irvine, Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, Workshop on Civil Wars and Post-
Conflict Transitions, May 18-20, 2001.






1. Introduction
In understanding civil wars it is useful to distinguish between their initiation and their
scale. In our previous research we have focused on explaining their initiation, we now
address scale. The scale of a conflict has various dimensions, and here we are concerned
only with one, namely, duration. Other pertinent dimensions are the geographic reach of
conflict, and its intensity in terns of mortality and refugees. We consider duration
because from a policy perspective it is arguably more important to know how to bring a
war to an end than to know how to contain it.
In Section 2 we relate the duration of conflict to two altemative models of its initiation.
Until recently, economic models of rebellion assumed that the benefits of rebellion
accrued only upon victory; new models treat the benefits as accruing during the conflict.
This difference has implications for whether conflict duration will be determined by
substantially similar, or substantially different, factors from those that determine the
initiation of conflict. In Section 3 we present the results of hazard function regressions of
the duration of conflict based on data for the period 1960-99. We start from the same
explanatory variables as that of the Collier-Hoeffler model of the initiation of conflict,
and use statistical rather than theory-based criteria to refine the model. We compare the
resulting model of duration with the model of conflict initiation and draw out
implications for the process of rebellion. Section 4 concludes.
2. The Initiation and Duration of Conflict
Until recently it was conventional to model the benefits of rebellion as being contingent
upon rebel victory. This was, for example, the assumption underpinning the celebrated
model of Grossman (1991). Although Grossman's model was not temporal, in a simple
extension Grossman (1995) introduced a discount rate into the analysis. Collier and
Hoeffler (1998) assumed both that benefits accrued only upon victory, and that during the
period of fighting the rebels incurred net costs. Hence, the longer the expected duration of
war the more heavily discounted would be these benefits, and the higher would be the
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costs of fighting. The expected duration of a conflict would thus influence the decision
whether to rebel, and conversely, the expected eventual pay-off from victory would
influence whether a long conflict was worthwhile. Duration and initiation were therefore
inter-dependent. For example, suppose that the extent of forest cover determines the
probability of reaching a militarily decisive outcome but not the eventual pay-off from
victory: forests lengthen wars but do not affect post-war outcomes. Conversely, suppose
that natural resource rents determine the eventual pay-off but not the duration. Then we
would expect to find that forestation would be associated with a longer duration of war
and therefore with a reduced probability of war. Conversely, natural resource rents would
be associated both with an increased probability of war and with wars of longer duration:
high eventual pay-offs would justify long wars.
More recently, rebellion has been modeled as a 'quasi-criminal' activity which is
profitable during the conflict (Collier, 2000). In this model because the duration of a
conflict is not a cost, the factors which determine duration, forestation in the above
example, would not influence the decision to initiate conflict and so would not be
correlated with conflict initiation. Conversely, factors which determine the initiation of
conflict, natural resource rents in the above example, would not be correlated with the
duration of conflict. Of course, there might potentially be a factor, for example
government capability, which influenced both initiation and duration. High government
capability might reduce the profitability of rebellion during conflict, so reducing the
probability of war, and increase the prospects of a decisive military outcome, thus
reducing duration. However, contrary to the implication of the Grossman-type models,
duration and initiation would not be inter-dependent, arising from the logic of the
decision calculus. They would simply have some explanatory variables in common.
In recent empirical work we have modeled the initiation of civil conflict, (Collier and
Hoeffler, 2001). The dependent variable is the probability of conflict during a five year
period, and the sample is in principle global for the period 1960-99, being reduced only
by considerations of data availability. If the rebel decision calculus balances the eventual
pay-off against costs linked to the expected duration of the conflict, a significant
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explanatory variable might be effecting either the eventual pay-off or the expected
duration. If, at the other extreme, the rebel decision calculus focuses only on viability
during conflict, then significant explanatory variables must be affecting that viability. A
comparison of the empirical correlates of conflict duration with those found in the
Collier-Hoeffler model of conflict initiation can thus to an extent constitute a test of
whether the expected duration of conflict is important in the decision to initiate a
rebellion. In turn, this illuminates the extent to which rebellion is determined by the
anticipation of post-conflict benefits, relative to the benefits which accrue during conflict.
If the expected duration of conflict is important in the rebel decision calculus the factors
that are significant for the predicted probability of conflict initiation should include those
that are significant for the predicted duration of conflict. Note, however, that the signs of
the coefficients need not be the same. In the above example, natural resource rents would
be associated with longer duration and a higher risk of conflict initiation, while
forestation would be associated with longer duration but a lower risk of conflict initiation.
Conversely, if the expected duration of conflict does not enter into the rebel decision
calculus, then we would expect to find little correspondence between the sets of
significant variables in the two regressions.
The empirical correlates of the initiation of civil war, as found in the Collier-Hoeffler
model, can be grouped into economic, social, geographic and historical. Of these, the
most important are the economic. The level, growth and structure of income are all
significant influences on conflict risk: countries with low per capita income, slow growth,
and a high share of primary commodity exports in GDP face considerably higher risks.
Social composition also affects risk. Countries in which the largest ethnic group
constitutes between 45% and 90% of the population have around double the risk of other
countries. However, other than this 'ethnic dominance' effect, ethnic and religious
diversity actually reduces conflict risk: diverse societies are safer than homogenous
societies. Geography matters: countries with dispersed populations, and those which are
mountainous, face somewhat higher risks. Finally, history matters: once a country has
had a conflict, it faces a temporarily higher risk of further conflict. Several other
explanatory variables have been tested for inclusion in the model and rejected: for
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example, neither inequality nor political repression have a significant effect upon the risk
of conflict initiation. Hence, in this paper we first investigate whether the variables of the
Collier-Hoeffler model of conflict initiation provide a statistically reasonable explanation
of conflict duration.
This comparison is not the only potential contribution of the Collier-Hoeffler model to
the study of conflict duration. Our study of the initiation of conflict found that in the early
post-conflict phase the risk of renewed conflict is markedly higher as a result of the
conflict. The typical post-conflict country faces a 50% risk of renewed conflict within the
first five years of reaching peace. Of this risk, around half is due to the factors inherited
from before the conflict, the other half being attributable to some new risks which were
generated as a result of the conflict. These conflict-acquired risks gradually decay if
peace is maintained. In effect, our two snapshots of risk on the eve of an initial conflict
and just after peace has been re-established tell us that during the conflict something
happens which drastically but temporarily increases risk. In this paper we focus on how
the conflict evolves year-by-year, and specifically how the risk of continued conflict
changes. We might expect to see the same rising risk of continued conflict during the
conflict as we find has occurred in comparing the before and after snapshots of risk.
Both peace and civil war are highly persistent states. Societies at peace have a high
probability of remaining at peace. Societies in civil conflict have a high probability of
remaining in civil conflict. In this sense the process of war duration cannot be the same as
the process of war initiation: the initiation of war usually represents an unlucky drawing
from a distribution, whereas the continuation of war is a high probability event. Thus, the
continuation of war cannot be a drawing from the same distribution as that which
generated it, and so war must radically change the distribution. The gradual decay of the
conflict risk in post-conflict societies tells us that the persistence of peace is itself
dynamic: the longer it lasts the more likely is it to persist. Conflict persistence potentially
has the same property, and we investigate whether this is the case.
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3. Empirical Analysis
Data
The data on which the analysis is based are from Collier and Hoeffler (2001, 2001a).
However, while that analysis compared countries in which civil conflicts were initiated
with those which remained at peace, the present analysis necessarily only compares
among countries in which conflicts were initiated. Here we provide a brief summary of
the data. Please refer to the appendix for a full list of the 52 war observations used in our
baseline model and a full description of the variables.
On average the civil wars in our sample are just over seven years long. The shortest wars
only lasted one month while the longest lasted over 30 years. In Table 1 we present some
descriptive statistics of the potential determinants of war duration. In the first column we
list the descriptive statistics for the entire sample and compare these with wars of a
duration of four years or less (column 2) and with wars longer than four years (column
4). We chose this comparison because in our regression model we include dummy
variables for biannual intervals. All variables were measured in the year the conflict
began or, if these data were not available, in the year closest to the start of the conflict.
We begin the description of the data with the economic variables. GDP per capita (in
1985 US dollars) is around $1762 for the entire sample. Countries with shorter wars
initially had a higher per capita iticome ($2277) while countries with longer wars were
characterized by lower incomes ($1413). This difference between the different sub-
samples is also apparent when we compare the male enrolment rates in secondary
schools. At the start of the conflict in countries with shorter wars a much higher
proportion of young men were enrolled (43 percent) than in countries with longer wars
(25 percent). However, the structure of the different war economies were similar. The
average share of primary commodity exports in GDP was about 13.5 percent for all war
observations. Countries with shorter wars are characterized by a slightly higher share of
primary commodity exports (14.5 percent).
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We now turn to some socio-political variables. Using data from the Polity III data set we
measure the level of democracy as the openness of the political institutions on a scale of 0
(least open) to 10 (most open). Both short and long wars are characterized by the same
low levels of democracy (average values of about 2.3). However, in terms of ethnic and
religious diversity we find that the averages of the sub-samples are different. We measure
diversity on a scale of zero to 100. The diversity measures are the probabilities that two
randomly drawn individuals do not belong to the same group. Thus, a value of zero
characterizes perfect homogeneity and 100 complete heterogeneity. The ethnic diversity
measure is based on the data from Atlas Naradov Mira and the religious diversity
measure is based on the World Christian Encyclopedia. Countries with shorter wars are
characterized by much lower levels of ethnic and religious diversity (44 and 31,
respectively) than countries with longer wars (57 and 37, respectively).
In terms of geographic variables we also find that the countries have different
characteristics. Observations with shorter wars are more mountainous (28.2 percent of the
country), have a lower coverage of woods and forests (13.7 percent of the country) and
have a more dispersed population (0.52). Longer war observations are less mountainous
(22.7 percent of the country) but have a higher coverage of woods and forests (30.8
percent of the country) and have a more concentrated population (0.61). Lastly, countries
with shorter wars are located in less conflict-ridden regions. On average only 0.3
neighbors of the countries with shorter wars were characterized by internal warfare. For
countries with longer wars 0.4 neighbors were experiencing a conflict at the beginning of
the country's civil war.
To summarize, the descriptive statistics show considerable variation between the
countries with shorter wars and the ones that experienced longer wars. We now apply
hazard functions to model the duration of civil conflict.
Constructing the Likelihood Function
The econometric specification is a continuous time hazard model of the monthly
transition rates from war to peace. To illustrate the specification, consider a country i
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which in period t experiences a war. The transition rate from war to peace is represented
by the hazard function, which we specify as
(1)          hit = exp(X/,,8 + Pj)hB(Dit),
where Xit is a vector of explanatory variables, ,B is a coefficient vector, Hi is a random
effect, permanent for each country, hB is the baseline hazard, and Di, is the duration of the
spell. The associated survivor function, which measures the unconditional probability that
a duration is longer than D, is equal to
(2)          Si = expp -exp(X1,fl+ uH)h (u)du;
and the likelihood that a period of length D is completed (&1) or censored (&=0) at time
t can then be written Li, = Si, (hi, ). Because some countries have had several spells of
war over the sample period, we write country i's contribution to the likelihood from R
spells equal to the product {lJ=  Li,
For the baseline hazard we adopt a specification which allows for stepwise
estimation, which is flexible. By dividing the time axis into W intervals by the points
C12,...,CCW  and assuming constant hazard rates within each interval, we can write the
hazard function as
(3)    hi, = exp(Xtfi + Au)exP(Ad1,i,),    c,v l < Di, � c,,, w = 1,2,...,W
with co = 0 and cw = co, and where dWi,  is a dummy variable equal to one if
cwl-, <Dit �c,, , and zero otherwise. This model, termed piecewise exponential, will thus
estimate W baseline hazard parameters, A, 22,..., Aw . The fact that the baseline hazard is
allowed to vary freely between intervals imposes few restrictions on duration
dependence. In estimation we include an intercept in each hazard model, and therefore
exclude the first "duration dummy". Hence, negative (positive) coefficients on remaining
duration dummies means that the hazard is lower (higher) than in the first interval.
To control for unobserved country-specific heterogeneity we include a random effect Au1.
It is not difficult to think of unobservable factors which affect the hazard in this context,
and it is well known that omission of such factors will lead to spurious negative duration
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dependence and biased parameter estimates for the explanatory variables (see e.g.
Lancaster, 1990, chapter 4). To obtain the unconditional likelihood it is necessary to
integrate over the distribution of u. We follow Heckman and Singer (1984) and adopt a
non-parametric strategy in which the (unknown) distribution of A g(,u), is approximated
by a discrete multinomial distribution with two points of support u = , *, where
* p, with probability P
I. P2 withprobability  1-PP
Since we include an intercept we need to normalise one of the support points to zero.
Hence one support point and one probability parameter will be estimated in addition to
the other parameters of the model. The individual contribution to the likelihood function
can thus be written
(4)    LUH = P.fRILl ( jp* = -0. 5u2)+(1 _ p). H=1L1 ( /u* =-0.5/u2)
This specification is the basis for the regression analysis to which we now turn.
Results
The hazard function predicts the probability' of peace in each phase of the conflict.
Figure 1 depicts this probability, year-by-year during the conflicts in our sample, before
we introduce any other explanatory variables. The translation from the hazard function to
a single summary number for the duration of conflict is non-trivial since the hazard
function describes a vector of probabilities. An increase in the 'hazard' of peace will
evidently shorten the expected duration of conflict, but the relationship is not linear. Here
we convert the hazard function to the mathematical expectation of the duration of
conflict. While the regression results directly report the hazard function, we report in the
text the effects of important variables upon the expected duration of conflict, these having
been calculated case-by-case.
We begin by using the variables of the Collier-Hoeffler model of the initiation of conflict
to explain the duration of conflict. The only deviation from the variables used in that
' Strictly speaking it is inappropriate to use the term "probability", as the hazard in theory is unbounded
above. "Risk" or "rate" are more appropriate terms. In practice, with discrete data, the distinction is less
important.
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model is to add dummy variables for various phases of the conflict. Specifically, we use
as a base the first two years of the conflict and add dummy variables for the three
subsequent two-year periods and a dumnmy variable for those conflicts which lasted
longer than eight years. The Collier-Hoeffler model has two variants: because per capita
income and secondary educational enrolments are highly correlated, they cannot be
included in the same regression, but each is significant when included separately. We
therefore test both variants.
The results are reported in Table 2. The model performs remarkably badly in either
variant. The only variables which are significant are the dummy variables for the phases
of the conflict and these are obviously not part of the model of conflict initiation. This is
at least prima facie evidence that the expected duration of conflict is not an important
factor in rebel decisions to initiate conflict. However, such an interpretation is insecure
unless the best-perforrning model of conflict duration turns out to be substantially
different.
Table 3 presents our preferred 'baseline' model of conflict duration, reached after a series
of iterations in which insignificant variables are deleted and variants of the economic,
social, geographic and historical explanatory variables are then tested in turn. We show
results without and with controls for unobserved heterogeneity, in columns [1] and [2]
respectively.
We first consider the economic variables. The level of per capita income and the male
secondary school enrolment rate are each significant when included separately (recall that
they cannot be included together because they are too highly correlated). The results
controlling for unobserved heterogeneity imply that if the proportion of males enrolled in
secondary school is increased by 10 percentage points the 'hazard' of peace is increased
by 42% and the expected duration of conflict is reduced by 18%.2
2 Evaluated at mean values of the regressors.
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Now consider the social variables. Ethnic fractionalization and its square are both highly
significant. Thus, ethnic fractionalization has a non-monotonic effect: the duration of
conflict is at its maximum when ethnic fractionalization is around 50 on its 0-100 range.
This typically occurs when the society is made of a few large ethnic groups. Not only is
ethnic fractionalization highly statistically significant, the effect is very substantial. Both
a homogenous society and a completely fractionalized one have a hazard of peace which
is around eight times higher than one with a fractionalization score of 50, reducing the
duration of conflict by 77%. There is a statistically insignificant but similarly signed
effect of religious fractionalization. Controlling for composition, the size of population is
significant: more populous countries have longer wars. The effect is fairly large: doubling
the population reduces the hazard of peace by 23% and so increases the duration of
conflict by 14%.
Now consider the geographic variables. The greater the proportion of a country which is
covered in forest the lower is the hazard of peace and hence the longer is the conflict.
This is both statistically and economically significant. Comparing a country with no
forest cover with the average cover of those countries with wars lasting more than four
years, namely 31%, the hazard of peace is 58% lower and the duration of conflict
consequently around 66% longer. The other geographic variable of significance is if a
neighboring country has a civil war. This reduces the hazard of peace by 47% and so
increases the duration of conflict by 41%.
Now consider the historical variables. The hazard function includes dummies both for the
decade and for the phase of the conflict. The dummy for the 1990s is potentially
problematic in a hazard function due to the truncation problem: for example, it is not
possible for a war which commenced in 1996 to have a duration of more than four years
given our period of observation. However, since our highest duration phase dummy is for
wars that lasted more than eight years, any war which started during or prior to the 1 980s
has had the time to last more than eight years by the end of our period of observation. To
correct for the truncation problem during the 1990s we add three interaction terms: the
1990 decade dummy interacted with each phase of the conflict other than the first. Thus,
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the coefficient on the 1990s decade dummy itself represents only the effect of the 1990s
on the probability of peace during the first two years of war, for which the truncation
problem is minimal. Both the decade dummies and the phase of conflict dummies are
collectively significant. The decade dummies reveal that post-1980 the hazard of peace is
far lower than prior to 1980. A conflict starting prior to 1980 had a peace hazard around
eight times greater than one occurring post-1980 and consequently had an expected
duration only 30% as long.3 We investigated why wars that started post 1980 appear to be
longer by interacting the post-1980 decade dummies with a variety of explanatory
variables, but none were significant.
The conflict phase dummies show a U-shaped pattern for the hazard of peace. There is a
relatively good chance that a conflict will end in the first two years. During the third and
fourth year the prospects for the conflict ending are at their minimum, and thereafter they
gradually revive. We investigated whether the characteristics which influence the
duration of conflict are differentially important in different phases of conflict. For this
taking each significant variable in turn, we added interaction terms between the variable
and the phase of conflict dummies. Only one of these produced significant results:
secondary school enrolment at the start of the conflict (Table 4). We found that while the
higher is initial secondary school enrolment the shorter is the conflict, this effect
gradually erodes as the conflict persists. A possible explanation for this, consistent with
much case study evidence, is that during a long conflict the educated part of the
population is the most likely to emigrate. Hence, while in the early phase of conflict
education is a force for peace, its influence gradually diminishes because the educated
leave.
We now compare the hazard function with our earlier model of the initiation of conflict.
Both have similar overall levels of explanatory power of around 30%, which might be
judged reasonably given the parsimony of the models, the poor quality of the data in
3 The confidence interval is large however. Looking a the raw data, the average duration for wars that
started prior to 1980, none of which were right-censored, was 78 months. In contrast, the average duration
for wars that started in the 1980s was 105 months, hence more than 30% longer. This number is biased
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conflict countries, and the highly idiosyncratic nature of the events to be explained.
However, the two models are strikingly different. Only three variables are common to
both models: neighboring wars, secondary education and population. It is unsurprising
that a war in a neighboring country increases both the risk of conflict initiation and the
duration of a conflict should it occur. Turning to case study evidence to illustrate what
might be going on, there are numerous cases in which the same rebel organization
operates in more than one country, gaining advantages from the fact that while it is
united, the opposing governments may find it hard to cooperate effectively. Current
examples are the RUF using its base in Sierra Leone to move into Guinea, the KLA using
its base in Kosovo to move into Macedonia, and the Basque separatist movement using
its safe havens in France to mount terrorist actions in Spain. However, case studies also
suggest a different pattern in which hostile neighboring governments actively support
rebel organizations in their neighbors as a form of indirect international war. An example
would be Sudanese support for the LRA in Uganda and Ugandan support for the SPLA in
Sudan. In the present analysis we cannot distinguish between these effects although both
would give rise to the results which we find. Obviously, the policy implications are
somewhat different: the former requires active cross-border cooperation by governments,
whereas the latter requires an international peace negotiation between governments.
Recall that male secondary school enrolment and per capita income are separately
significant in reducing both the risk of the initiation of war and its duration. Perhaps one
variable proxies the other or both proxy some further correlate of the level of
development, such as government effectiveness. Such an unspecific indicator provides
little guidance for policy other than that developed societies will have both fewer and
shorter wars.
We would expect the risk of the initiation of war to be correlated with population simply
because larger countries in effect aggregate the risks of more localities. This aggregation
effect alone would produce an elasticity of risk with respect to population of close to
downwards, as 20% of these wars were still ongoing at the end of 1999; that is, the true average duration is
bound to be higher.
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unity for small levels of risk. In our analysis of the initiation of conflict the coefficient on
the logarithm of population is not significantly different from unity, so that this is the
most straightforward interpretation of the result. The result on the duration of conflict
may be due to a similar effect. In some countries more than one conflict is going on at the
same time. For example, in Ethiopia during the 1980s there were up to six distinct
simultaneous civil wars. Larger countries are more likely to have multiple civil wars. In
our data, even if one conflict ends, if another conflict is continuing the country is still
classified as at civil war. Hence, for both the initiation and the duration of conflict the
population effect may be spurious.
There are eight variables which are significant in initiating conflict yet which do not
effect its duration: the growth of income prior to conflict, the share of primary
commodity exports in GDP, ethnic dominance, social fractionalization, the size of
diasporas,4 geographic dispersion, mountainous terrain, and the time which has passed
since any previous conflict. Similarly, there are three variables which are significant in
the duration of conflict but not in its initiation: ethnic diversity (as a quadratic
relationship), forest cover, and decade dummies. These differences suggest that the likely
duration of a conflict is not a substantial factor influencing the rebels who decide to
initiate it. In turn, this implies that the initiation of rebellion is less influenced by the
prospects of attaining post-conflict goals than by its short-term viability.
Three variables that dominate the political discourse on conflict are insignificant both in
its initiation and its duration: prior inequality, whether of income or of land, prior
political repression, and prior military expenditure. All of these variables are difficult to
measure, and there are powerful other reasons for favoring both equity and democracy.
4 We investigated the effect of diasporas on conflict duration. However, our data on diasporas covers only a
limited number of countries. In our previous analysis of the initiation of conflict (Collier and Hoeffler,
2001 a), the inclusion of diasporas as an explanatory variable approximately halved the sample size relative
to that used in our baseline model. Nevertheless, with a sample of over 300 observations the main variables
in the baseline model remained significant, and the diaspora variable was also significant. In the present
analysis, because our sample is necessarily confined only to countries which have experienced a conflict,
the reduction in sample size involved in the inclusion of the diaspora variable is much more problematic.
We are reduced to only 107 observations and none of the variables in our baseline model remains
significant. The diaspora variable is itself insignificant, but since all the variables that are significant in the
baseline also become insignificant, nothing can be concluded from our attempt to analyze diasporas.
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However, their lack of significant effects on conflict can be contrasted both with their
significance in other economic relationships (even when measured with the same data),
and with the fact that some other factors have such powerful effects on conflict. For our
analysis of the effects of military expenditure we drew upon our previous analysis of its
effects on the risk of conflict initiation (Collier and Hoeffler, 2001a). There, to avoid the
endogeneity problem inherent in the analysis of the effect of military expenditure on
conflict, we instrumented military expenditure using various measures of external threat.
We used these same instruments in the present analysis.
The change from those variables that are important for conflict initiation to those which
affect its duration permits a speculative interpretation of how conflicts evolve. They start
when a rebel organization is both militarily and financially viable. A dispersed
population, mountainous terrain, and prior establishment in a neighboring country, all
enable the rebel organization to build up an initial military force in remote areas. In such
conditions governments are powerless to prevent the emergence of rebellion regardless of
preventative military expenditure. The presence of primary commodity exports, an enemy
neighboring government, or a rich diaspora, all might be sources of finance for a rebel
organization, while if per capita income is low it reduces the cost of recruitment into the
organization. Having started because it is viable the rebel organization will continue
unless it becomes unviable. It is unlikely to become financially unviable unless it is
dependent upon a neighboring government that settles its differences with the host
government. Hence, the main threat to continued viability is if the rising military threat
posed by the government reaction becomes uncontainable, or if the rebels fall out among
themselves. Both forest cover and civil war in a neighbor may be important in sustaining
a conflict because they make it more difficult for an increased government military effort
to defeat a rebellion. Possibly, the greater difficulty of defeating rebellion in the 1980s
and 1990s compared with the previous twenty years is because of the growth of
international markets for supplies of armaments to rebels. A financially viable rebel
organization can now purchase a wide range of military equipment whereas in an earlier
period access was much more dependent upon finding political favor with one or other of
the superpowers. During the 1990s many rebel organizations have become in effect
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entirely private enterprise activities, without political support from any major power. The
evolution in the effects of social composition between the initiation and duration of a
conflict is surely striking. An ethnic fractionalization score of around 50 does not make a
country more prone to the initiation of civil war, but if such a war occurs it tends to
lengthen its duration very substantially. This may be because the rebel organization uses
ethnicity as a means of maintaining organizational cohesion. If so, it suggests that where
there is no potential for ethnicity to be used as a means of rebel identity, many rebel
organizations face severe problems of maintaining cohesion: hence the much shorter
duration of such wars. Thus, violent conflict appears to become organized on ethnic lines,
rather than prior ethnic hatreds escalating into violent conflict.
Recall that one of the results from the analysis of the initiation of conflict is that the risk
is temporarily much higher in post-conflict situations. Evidently, something happens
during the conflict that increases this risk. For example, one obvious hypothesis is that
since conflict causes hatred, it is the accumulated hatred that makes the reversion to war
more likely. Our analysis of how the peace hazard changes during conflict provides some
evidence on the matter. The peace hazard is the obverse of the risk of conflict
continuation rather than conflict initiation. However, it is reasonable to suppose that the
risk of conflict initiation, which is latent during conflict, is monotonic in the risk of
conflict continuation. Although the risk of conflict initiation is sharply increased by
conflict, during the conflict the risk of conflict continuation does not monotonically
increase. It is U-shaped, and is approximately the same in the sixth year of conflict as the
first. This does not seem like a plausible time path for hatred, and so it is doubtful if the
change in hatred is closely associated with the increased risk of conflict initiation. Rather,
it appears that there must be an abrupt increase in the latent risk of subsequent conflict
initiation which occurs around the onset of the initial conflict. A possible explanation for
such an abrupt change in risk is that it is brought about by the emergence of the rebel
organization. The switch from peace to civil war is necessarily coincident with the
creation of a large, violent, non-government organization which is viable during conflict.
When the war ends it may be because this organization negotiates a deal which is even
more advantageous than the conflict, or because it becomes unviable. However, usually
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end of the conflict does not mark the end of the organization. Hence, in a typical post-
conflict situation, a major difference with the pre-conflict period is that a rebel
organization already exists. We would therefore expect conflict renewal to be more likely
than conflict initiation in otherwise identical circumstances.
4. Conclusion
We have used a comprehensive data set on large-scale violent civil conflicts over the
period 1960-99 to analyze the duration of conflict. We have estimated hazard functions,
correcting for unobserved heterogeneity. We find that the duration of conflict is
determined by a substantially different set of variables from those that determine the
initiation of conflict. Notably, the duration of a conflict is substantially increased if the
society is composed of a few large ethnic groups, if there is extensive forest cover, and if
it commenced since 1980. None of these variables has any significant influence on the
risk of conflict initiation. An implication is that the anticipated duration of conflict does
not significantly influence the decision to rebel. In turn, this suggests that the initiation of
rebellion is not closely related to the prospect of post-victory goals, as assumed in most
previous theoretical models. This is consistent with our finding that neither inequality nor
political repression prior to conflict is significantly related to either the initiation or the
duration of conflict. Instead, our results on the duration of conflict are consistent with our
previous analysis of its initiation. There we argued that the critical factors were those that
determined whether rebellion was financially and militarily viable as a continuing
enterprise during conflict. In this framework, since observed rebellions start out as viable
enterprises, they persist unless financial or military circumstances change. Thus, for
example, forest cover probably makes it harder for a given government military response
to crush a rebellion. Similarly, the emergence of global unpoliced markets in armnaments
post-1980 may have advantaged rebels.
There is a notable dissonance between the focus of this analysis: the mundane material
circumstances that make rebellion viable as an enterprise, and the focus of global political
discourse on conflict resolution and prevention: the supposed ultimate goals and
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aspirations of rebels. An implication of our analysis is that to shorten wars, as to prevent
them, policy needs to be refocused on reducing the viability of rebellion as an enterprise.
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Figure 1: The hazard of peace from the raw data (no explanatory variables)
Hazard of peace
0.025 -
0.02
0.015
0.005
0 -
1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10
Duration (years)
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Table 1: Descriptive Statistics
All Wars, n=52         Wars less than or equal   Wars longer than 48
to 48 months, n=21     months, n=31
Per capita income, 1985   1762                 2277                    1414
const US$              (1431)                  (1767)                  (1043)
Male secondary school   29.2                   34.8                    25.4
enrolment (%)          (23.5)                  (26.0)                  (21.2)
Primary commodity      0.13                    0.14                    0.13
exports/GDP            (0.9)                   (0.12)                  (0.07)
Democracy              2.3                     2.3                     2.3
(3.4)                  (3.5)                   (3.3)
Ethnic fractionalization   51.7                43.8                    57.0
(29.1)                 (31.5)                  (26.6)
Religious              34.5                    30.5                    37.2
fractionalization      (25.1)                  (24.6)                  (25.5)
Mountainous terrain (%)  24.9                  28.2                    22.7
(23.7)                 (25.6)                  (22.4)
Forest coverage (%)    23.7                    13.7                    30.6
(19.3)                 (11.3)                  (20.7)
Geographic dispersion    0.58                  0.52                    0.61
of the population      (0.15)                  (0.17)                  (0.13)
Neighbors at war       0.38                    0.33                    0.42
(0.49)                 (0.48)                  (0.50)
Prior peace duration   230.2                   244.0                   220.9
(months)               (142.8)                 (151.2)                 (138.5)
Note: Standard deviations in parentheses.
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Table 2: The Collier-Hoeffler Model, no unobserved heterogeneity$
Coefficient                abs [z]
log Real GDP                -0.03                       0.10
GDP Growth                 -5.10                        1.12
Primary commodity
exports/GDP                 -5.87                       1.07
Primary commodity
exports/GDP 2              20.39                        1.69*
Social Fractionalisation    0.00                        0.86
Ethnic dominance           -0.06                        0.16
log Peace duration          -0.02                       0.12
log Population             -0.07                        0.54
Geographic dispersion of the
population                  -2.00                       1.49
d2                         -1.40                        2.21**
d3                         -0.95                        1.69*
d4                         -0.33                        0.68
d5                         -0.20                        0.52
Intercept                   -1.04                       0.38
Log likelihood             -86.62
LR x2(13)                   19.97
Prob > x2                   0.096
Pseudo R2                   0.10
Number of observations       51
Note: z-statistics are based on asymptotic standard errors. Significance at the 10%, 5% and 1%
level is indicated by *, ** and ***, respectively.
s The model with controls for unobserved heterogeneity gave identical results.
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Table 3: The Baseline Specification for the Hazard Function
Model [1]: Without controls   Model (21: With controls for
for unobserved heterogeneity  unobserved heterogeneity
Coefficient   abs [z]     Coefficient  abs [z]
Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization  -0.10        3.40***      -0.08        2.42**
Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization 2 / 100  0.10  3.16***      0.08        2.57***
Male secondary schooling            0.03        2.28**        0.04        3.23***
Neighbours at war                  -0.79        2.21**        -0.71       1.98**
Forest coverage                    -0.02        2.32**       -0.03        2.93***
Log population                     -0.05        0.33          -0.26       1.82*
Religious fractionalization        -0.03        0.88         -0.01        0.33
Religious fractionalization2 / 100  0.05        0.93          0.04        0.63
1970s                             -0.36         0.80         -0.05        0.11
1980s                             -1.23         2.1I**       -2.26        3.86***
1990s                             -2.09         1.85*        -2.51        2.23**
d2                                 -1.68        2.23**        -1.16       1.49
d3                                 -1.01         1.57         -0.13       0.19
d4                                 -0.18        0.57          1.72        3.00***
1990s x d2                          1.93        1.20          1.59        0.97
1990s x d3                          1.55        0.99          0.88        0.55
1990s x d4                          -0           -             -0          --
Intercept                          -0.69        0.35          0.53        0.25
A2                                                           -3.12        5.12***
P                                                             0.69
Log likelihood                    -79.83                    -74.92
LR x2(13)                          35.52                     45.34
Prob > x2                           0.00                      0.00
Pseudo R2                           0.18                      0.23
Number of observations               52                        52
Note: z-statistics are based on asymptotic standard etrors. Significance at the 10%, 5% and 1%
level is indicated by , ** and ***, respectively.
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Table 4: The Baseline Specification with School Enrollment Interacted with Duration
Model [1]: Without controls  Model [2]: With controls for
for unobserved heterogeneity unobserved heterogeneity
Coefficient   abs [z]    Coefficient   abs [z]
Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization   -0.11        3.69***     -0.10         3.26***
Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization 2 1oo    0.11  3.37***      0.10         3.51***
Male secondary schooling            0.05         3.57***      0.05         3.77***
Neighbours at war                   -1.01        2.72***      -1.00        2.66***
Forest coverage                     -0.02         1.74*       -0.03        2.28**
Log population                      0.07         0.48        -0.11         0.68
Religious fractionalization         -0.04         1.05        -0.01        0.31
Religious fractionalization2/ 100   0.05          1.07        0.02         0.29
1970s                              -0.45         0.98        -0.08         0.19
1980s                               -1.35        2.28**      -2.32         4.04***
1990s                              -2.61         2.24**      -2.70         2.36***
d2                                 -0.66         0.67        -0.39         0.40
d3                                  0.55         0.63         1.18         1.28
d4                                   1.02        1.56         2.97         3.84***
Male secondary schooling x d2       0.04          1.31        -0.03        1.03
Male secondary schooling x d3       -0.07        2.03**       -0.06        1.76*
Male secondary schooling x d4       -004         2.25**       -0.05        2.36**
y9Os x d2                           2.62          1.57        2.17         1.26
y90s x d3                           2.68          1.63        1.90         1.12
y9Os x d4                            -00          --           -J           --
Intercept                           -2.87        1.25        -1.78         0.73
P2                                                           -3.18         4.99***
P                                                             0.73
Continues...
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Table 4: Continued
Model [1]: Without controls for  Model (2]: With controls for
unobserved heterogeneity    unobserved heterogeneity
Log likelihood              -75.39                       -71.15
LR X2(13)                    46.39                        54.87
Prob > x2                     0.00                         0.00
Pseudo R2                     0.24                         0.28
Number of observations         52                           52
Note: z-statistics are based on asymptotic standard errors. Significance at the 10%, 5% and 1%
level is indicated by *, ** and ***, respectively.
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Appendix Table 1: Sample of 52 Wars
Country                   Start of the    End of the
War          War
Algeria                   07/62         12/62
Algeria                   05/91         Ongoing
Angola                    02/61         05/91
Burma/Myanmar             68            10/80
Burma/Myanmar             02/83         07/95
Burundi                   04/72         12/73
Burundi                   08/88         08/88
Burundi                   11/91         ongoing
Chad                      03/80         08/88
Columbia                  04/84         ongoing
Cyprus                    07/74         08/74
Dominican Rep.            04/65         09/65
El Salvador               10/79         01/92
Ethiopia                  07/74         05/91
Guatemala                 07/66         07/72
Guatemala                 03/78         03/84
Guinea-Bissau             12162         12/74
India                     08/65         08/65
India                     84            94
Indonesia                 06/75         09/82
Iran                      03/74         03/75
Iran                      09/78         12/79
Iran                      06/81         05/82
Iraq                      09/61         11/63
Iraq                      07/74         03/75
Iraq                      01/85         12/92
Jordan                    09/71         09/71
Morocco                   10/75         11/89
Mozambique                10/64         11/75
Mozambique                07/76         10/92
Nicaragua                 10/78         07/79
Nicaragua                 03/82         04/90
Nigeria                   01/66         01/70
Nigeria                   12/80         08/84
Pakistan                  03/71         12/71
Pakistan                  01/73         07/77
Peru                      03/82         12/96
Philippines               09/72         12/96
Romania                   12/89         12/89
Rwanda                    11/63         02/64
Rwanda                    10/90         07/94
Somalia                   04/82         12/92
Sri Lanka                 04/71         05/71
Sri Lanka                 07/83         ongoing
Sudan                     07/83         ongoing
Turkey                    07/91         ongoing
Uganda                    05/66         06/66
Uganda                    10/80         04/88
Yugoslavia                04/90         01/92
Zaire/Dem. Rep. of Congo  07/60         09/65
Zaire/Dem. Rep. of Congo    09/91       12/96
Zimbabwe                  12/72         12/79
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Appendix: Data Sources
War Duration
A civil war is defined as an internal conflict in which at least 1000 battle related deaths
(civilian and military) occurred per year. We use mainly the data collected by Singer and
Small (1984, 1994) and according to their definitions we updated their data set for 1992-
99.
GDP per capita
We measure income as real PPP adjusted GDP per capita. The primary data set is the
Penn World Tables 5.6 (Summers and Heston 1991). Since the data is only available
from 1960-92 we used the growth rates of real PPP adjusted GDP per capita data from
the World Bank's World Development Indicators 1998 in order to obtain income data for
the 1990s.
Primary commodity exports/GDP
The ratio of primary commodity exports to GDP proxies the abundance of natural
resources. The data on primary commodity exports as well as GDP was obtained from the
World Bank. Export and GDP data are measured in current US dollars.
Population
Population measures the total population, the data source is the World Bank's World
Development Indicators 1998. Again, we measure population a the beginning of each
sub-period.
Social, ethnolinguistic and religious fractionalization
We proxy social fractionalization in a combined measure of ethnic and religious
fractionalization. Ethnic fractionalization is measured by the ethno-linguistic
fractionalization index. It measures the probability that two randomly drawn individuals
from a given country do not speak the same language. Data is only available for 1960. In
the economics literature this measure was first used by Mauro (1995). Using data from
Barrett (1982) on religious affiliations we constructed an analogous religious
fractionalization index. Following Barro (1997) we aggregated the various religious
affiliations into nine categories: Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist,
Eastern Religions (other than Buddhist), Indigenous Religions and no religious
affiliation.
The fractionalization indices range from zero to 100. A value of zero indicates that the
society is completely homogenous whereas a value of 100 would characterize a
completely heterogeneous society.
We calculated our social fractionalization index as the product of the ethno-linguistic
fractionalization and the religious fractionalization index plus the ethno-linguistic or the
religious fractionalization index, whichever is the greater. By adding either index we
avoid classifying a country as homogenous (a value of zero) if the country is ethnically
homogenous but religiously divers, or vice versa
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Ethnic dominance
Using the ethno-linguistic data from the original data source (Atlas Naradov Mira, 1964)
we calculated an indicator of ethnic dominance. This variable takes the value of one if
one single ethno-linguistic group makes up 45 to 90 percent of the total population and
zero otherwise.
Geographic Dispersion of the Population
We constructed a dispersion index of the population on a country by country basis. Based
on population data for 400km2 cells we generated a Gini coefficient of population
dispersion for each country. A value of 0 indicates that the population is evenly
distributed across the country and a value of 1 indicates that the total population is
concentrated in one area. Data is available for 1990 and 1995. For years prior to 1990 we
used the 1990 data. We would like to thank Uwe Deichman of the World Bank's
Geographic Information System Unit for generating this data. He used the following data
sources: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),
Columbia University; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); and World
Resources Institute (WRI). 2000. Gridded Population of the World (GPW), Version 2.
Palisades,    NY:    IESIN,    Columbia    University.    Available    at
http://sedac.ciesin.org/plue/gpw.
Forest Coverage
We used the FAO measure,of the proportion of a country's terrain which is covered in
woods and forest. Source: http://www.fao.org/forestry
Mountainous terrain
The proportion of a country's terrain which is mountainous was measured by John
Gerrard, a physical geographer specialized in mountainous terrain. His measure is not
only based on altitude but takes into account plateaus and rugged uplands. The data is
presented in Gerrard (2000).
Peace Duration
This variable measures the length of the peace period since the end of the previous civil
war. For countries which never experienced a civil war we measure the peace period
since the end of World War.
Neighbors at War
This binary variable indicates whether any of the neighbours was at war at the time the
conflict began. We would like to thank James Murdoch and Todd Sandler for the use of
their neighbourhood data set. Countries sharing land boundaries are classified as
neighbours, island nations do not have any neighbours.
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