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1	No Such Thing as Collective Goods: The Political Utility of Low Level Civil War in Northern Uganda Wishart, Alexandra Z.A. 26 October 2010 (has links) With the extant work on civil war duration as a starting point, this project uses the Ugandan case to identify and address theoretical aporias in our existing understanding of the determinants of duration. The vast majority of existing work begins with the assumption that the rebel force is the determining factor in the duration of conflict. Challenging this assumption, I argue that civil war duration should be understood as a function of the calculations made by both the rebel units and the established state, a dynamic that has implications for the way in which we think of the preferences of the state. Finally, that incentive structures exist, given the nature of post-colonial states that lower the utility of peace for elected leadership and reduce their willingness to provide peace as a collective good to the broader population as civil war can be used as one of Jeffrey Herbst’s buffer mechanisms. Civil war duration Uganda Social Contract Theory State creation Lord’s Resistance Army Buffer mechanisms Political Science
2	The Balance of Convertibility: Manipulating External Support in Civil War Wolfe, Kimberly L. 12 May 2022 (has links) No description available. International Relations Political Science External support civil war duration balance of power balance of convertibility fungibility third-party intervention external intervention intrastate conflict sponsor resources proxy war civil war civil wars armed conflict rebels government stalemate negotiated settlement funding ethnic conflict uncertainty

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No Such Thing as Collective Goods: The Political Utility of Low Level Civil War in Northern Uganda

The Balance of Convertibility: Manipulating External Support in Civil War