While much of the literature studies causes and consequences of war, the reverberations of peace have rarely been … studied. By focusing on the universe of ceasefire agreements since 1993, we study the causal effect of peace on economic …, with their effectiveness in curbing hostilities being greater in areas where conflict is active closer in time to the …

Finds civil wars and their recurrence fall into three patterns: (1) the 'conflict trap,' meaning once a country … recidivism rate from 1945-2009; (2) the dominant form of armed conflict in the world today is recurring civil war; and (3 …. Political institutions are the key to explaining why some countries can escape the conflict trap while others cannot. How the …

causes of peace focuses on how institutional designs, as the outcomes of reform processes, reduce post‐conflict violence and …How does the reform of state institutions shape prospects for peace after war? Existing research on the institutional … promote peace. The literature does not, however, adequately address how the politics that characterise reform processes affect …

No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This … long-term effects of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace after conflict. It uses a Cox proportional hazard model … to analyze the influence of the various types of post-conflict justice on the length of the peace period before the …