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When And How The Fighting Stops: Explaining The Duration And Outcome Of Civil Wars

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  • Patrick Brandt
  • T. David Mason
  • Mehmet Gurses
  • Nicolai Petrovsky
  • Dagmar Radin

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Previous research has shown that the duration of a civil war is in part a function of how it ends: in government victory, rebel victory, or negotiated settlement. We present a model of how protagonists in a civil war choose to stop fighting. Hypotheses derived from this theory relate the duration of a civil war to its outcome as well as characteristics of the civil war and the civil war nation. Findings from a competing risk model reveal that the effects of predictors on duration vary according to whether the conflict ended in government victory, rebel victory, or negotiated settlement.

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  • Patrick Brandt & T. David Mason & Mehmet Gurses & Nicolai Petrovsky & Dagmar Radin, 2008. "When And How The Fighting Stops: Explaining The Duration And Outcome Of Civil Wars," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(6), pages 415-434.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:defpea:v:19:y:2008:i:6:p:415-434
    DOI: 10.1080/10242690701823267
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