Summary
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Conflict Resolution is one of the fastest growing academic fields in the world today. Although it is a relatively young discipline, having emerged as a specialized field in the 1950s, it has rapidly grown into a self-contained, vibrant, interdisciplinary field. The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Resolution brings together all the conceptual, methodological, and substantive elements of Conflict Resolution into one volume of 35 specially commissioned chapters. The Handbook is designed to reflect where the field is today by drawing on the contributions of experts from different fields, presenting, in a systematic way, the most recent research and practice.
The Spread of Civil War1
The Spread of Civil War1
Introduction
Civil war has been by far the most common form of conflict in the international system since 1945.2 Although interstate conflicts have been more lethal, in the sense that each single conflict on average generates a larger number of casualties, outbreaks of civil wars have been more frequent, and civil wars tend to be more persistent and more difficult to settle than interstate conflicts.3 In addition to the direct fatalities as a result of acts of combat, civil wars have also created large indirect costs through economics losses, and often leave severe legacies in the countries affected, which threaten to undermine the future economic and political viability of affected countries (see e.g. Ashford and Huet-Vaughan 1997; ...
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