Oil and Diamonds as Causes of Civil War in sub-Saharan Africa

Recent research has increasingly questioned the link between natural resources and violent conflict while stressing the importance of resource-specific context conditions under which internal conflicts become more likely. This paper engages in a systematic analysis of six of these resource-specific...

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Autores principales:	Matthias Basedau, Tim C. Wegenast
Formato:	Artículo científico
Publicado:	Universidad de Los Andes 2009
Materias:	Relaciones Internacionales Natural resources civil war sub-Saharan Africa resource-specific conditions medium N-approach
Acceso en línea:	http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=81215371003 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-003&d=81215371003oai
Aporte de:	Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) de Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales

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topic_facet	Relaciones Internacionales Natural resources civil war sub-Saharan Africa resource-specific conditions medium N-approach
description	Recent research has increasingly questioned the link between natural resources and violent conflict while stressing the importance of resource-specific context conditions under which internal conflicts become more likely. This paper engages in a systematic analysis of six of these resource-specific conditions comparing 15 African oil and diamond producing countries. Employing a Boolean logic, the results of our analysis indicate that, typically, a conflict-ridden diamond or oil producer is highly dependent on resources, its revenues are hardly spent on distributional policies and the security apparatus and, moreover, it suffers from intercommunal problems in the producing regions. Little income from resources per capita and substantial production of lootable resources in peripheral regions seem to constitute necessary conditions for civil war. Thus, our findings imply that future theoretical models and empirical strategies should integrate the full set of (resource specific) context conditions. Efforts to raise a more integrative approach combining quantitative and qualitative research designs seem particularly promising.
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author	Matthias Basedau Tim C. Wegenast
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title	Oil and Diamonds as Causes of Civil War in sub-Saharan Africa
title_short	Oil and Diamonds as Causes of Civil War in sub-Saharan Africa
title_full	Oil and Diamonds as Causes of Civil War in sub-Saharan Africa
title_fullStr	Oil and Diamonds as Causes of Civil War in sub-Saharan Africa
title_full_unstemmed	Oil and Diamonds as Causes of Civil War in sub-Saharan Africa
title_sort	oil and diamonds as causes of civil war in sub-saharan africa
publisher	Universidad de Los Andes
publishDate	2009
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Oil and Diamonds as Causes of Civil War in sub-Saharan Africa

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