Journal article
Local Fights in National Conflicts: Understanding the Location of Conflict Events during Intrastate Conflict
Civil Wars, Vol.16(1), pp.24-45
01/02/2014
DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2014.904983
Abstract
How do rebel groups determine their targets during intrastate conflict? We build upon two competing theories in conflict studies that emphasize either the social or economic determinants of violence during war and use geographic information systems (GIS) analysis to explore these competing theories. To do this, we utilize a subnational analysis of the most likely case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to understand whether ethnicity or natural resources motivates the location of conflict events. Accounting for geography, we find that economic endowments in the form of natural resources are highly related with the number of violent attacks, while the presence of competing ethnic groups does not offer much help in understanding the location of conflict events.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Local Fights in National Conflicts: Understanding the Location of Conflict Events during Intrastate Conflict
- Creators
- Michael Burch - Department of Political Science, Wabash CollegeElise Pizzi - Department of Political Science, University of Colorado
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Civil Wars, Vol.16(1), pp.24-45
- DOI
- 10.1080/13698249.2014.904983
- ISSN
- 1369-8249
- eISSN
- 1743-968X
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/02/2014
- Academic Unit
- Center for Social Science Innovation; Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983988990402771
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