Understanding civil war

Download or read book Understanding civil war written by Paul Collier and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOLUME 1: AfricaVOLUME 2: Europe, Central Asia, and Other Regions""This is a superb manuscript, and one that will become a standard reference in the field for students of conflict and civil war.""--Robert Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University The two volumes of Understanding Civil War build upon the World Bank's prior research on conflict and violence, particularly on the work of Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler, whose model of civil war onset has sparked much discussion on the relationship between conflict and development in what came to be known as the ""greed.