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Civil War

Civil War is an intrastate armed conflict characterized by sustained, organized violence between a recognized state authority and one or more non-state actors, typically occurring within a single country's borders and involving claims to sovereignty, territorial control, or significant policy change.

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255

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Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War

James D. Fearon, David D. Laitin · American Political Science Review · 2003 · 6.1K citations

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Greed and grievance in civil war

Paul Collier · Oxford Economic Papers · 2004 · 6K citations

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Introducing ACLED: An Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset

Clionadh Raleigh, Andrew M. Linke, Håvard Hegre et al. · Journal of Peace Research · 2010 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816–1992

Håvard Hegre · American Political Science Review · 2001 · 1.6K citations

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Civil War

Christopher Blattman, Edward Miguel · Journal of Economic Literature · 2010 · 1.6K citations

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Authors

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  1. KS
    Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

    University of Essex, United Kingdom

    23 publications · 5.3K citations

    22

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  2. NS
    Nicholas Sambanis

    Yale University, United States

    20 publications · 5.1K citations

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  3. PC
    Paul Collier

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    16 publications · 11.2K citations

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  4. LC
    Lars‐Erik Cederman

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    16 publications · 5.3K citations

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  5. TD
    T. David Mason

    University of North Texas, United States

    14 publications · 1.4K citations

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Institutions

626

  1. Peace Research Institute Oslo

    Oslo, Norway

    45 h-index

    102 publications

    21.6K citations

  2. Uppsala University

    Uppsala, Sweden

    27 h-index

    64 publications

    5K citations

  3. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    26 h-index

    31 publications

    12.2K citations

  4. University of Essex

    Colchester, United Kingdom

    24 h-index

    31 publications

    5.8K citations

  5. Norwegian University of Science and Technology

    Trondheim, Norway

    22 h-index

    37 publications

    7.1K citations

  6. University of North Texas

    Denton, United States

    21 h-index

    36 publications

    4.1K citations

  7. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    20 h-index

    35 publications

    6.2K citations

  8. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    19 h-index

    30 publications

    6.3K citations

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  1. Journal of Peace Research

    110 publications · 19.2K citations

    65

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  2. Journal of Conflict Resolution

    87 publications · 17K citations

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  3. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 144 publications · 6.8K citations

    45

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  4. International Studies Quarterly

    44 publications · 6.1K citations

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  5. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 76 publications · 3.4K citations

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