Inequality, grievances, and civil war

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Label

Inequality, grievances, and civil war

Statement of responsibility

Lars-Erik Cederman, Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zürich; Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, University of Essex; Halvard Buhaug, Peace Research Institute Oslo

Creator

• Cederman, Lars-Erik, 1963-

Contributor

• Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede, 1971-
• Buhaug, Halvard, 1972-

Subject

• Kriegsursache
• Minderheitenfrage
• Civil war -- Social aspects
• Konfliktforschung
• Equality
• Ungleichheit
• Diskriminierung
• Human rights
• Bürgerkrieg

Language

eng

Summary

"This book argues that political and economic inequalities following group lines generate grievances that in turn can motivate civil war. Lars-Erik Cederman, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Halvard Buhaug offer a theoretical approach that highlights ethnonationalism and how the relationship between group identities and inequalities are fundamental for successful mobilization to resort to violence. Although previous research highlighted grievances as a key motivation for political violence, contemporary research on civil war has largely dismissed grievances as irrelevant, emphasizing instead the role of opportunities. This book shows that the alleged non-results for grievances in previous research stemmed primarily from atheoretical measures, typically based on individual data. The authors develop new indicators of political and economic exclusion at the group level, and show that these exert strong effects on the risk of civil war. They provide new analyses of the effects of transnational ethnic links and the duration of civil wars, and extended case discussions illustrating causal mechanisms." -- Publisher website

Member of

• Cambridge studies in contentious politics

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

JC491

LC item number

.C374 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in contentious politics