Publication: Understanding Civil War : Evidence and Analysis, Volume 1. Africa
Date
2005
ISSN
Published
2005
Author(s)
Collier, Paul
Sambanis, Nicholas
Abstract
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 countries selected are
Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria,
Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan, Algeria, Mali, Senegal, Indonesia,
Lebanon, Russian Federation, Colombia, Northern Ireland,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and the Caucasus.) 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.
Citation
“Collier, Paul; Sambanis, Nicholas. 2005. Understanding Civil War : Evidence and Analysis, Volume 1. Africa. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/7437 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”