Includes indexes.

Forced migration as a deterrence strategy in civil conflict / Paola Palacios -- Continuing conflict and international prices of commodities : theory and empirical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa / Raul Caruso -- A model of sectarian violence / Ahmed Saber Mahmud, Syed Mansoob Murshed -- Insurgent violence and the rural-urban divide : the case of Maoist India / Topher L. McDougal -- The onset versus the continuation of insurgency : Nepal, a single country, district-level analysis / Gary M. Shiffman, Prabin B. Khadka -- State capacity, manufacturing, and civil conflict in Africa and Latin America, 1970-2007 / Jacopo Costa, Roberto Ricciuti -- Health and conflict : evidence from Mozambique / Patrick Domingues -- A methodology for the calculation of the global economic costs of conflict / Olaf J. de Groot -- Experimental research of dynamic strategic decision making with the aid of an online simulator module / Ranan D. Kuperman -- Regional alliance toward the formation of a nation : a simulation / Toshitaka Fukiharu.

This volume of Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development includes some of the selected papers presented by scholars in a European Peace Science Network Meeting recently held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Chapters in this volume cover the conflicts in Maoist India, South America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors have employed highly sophisticated quantitative techniques and principles of Economics and Political Science in determining the causes of these ethnic conflicts and effects on human and material resources.

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