Riding the Ever-Rolling Stream: Time and the Ontology of Violent Conflict

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 188-198

  Brown, Graham K ^a   Langer, Arnim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conflict; Econometrics; Ethnicity; Ontology; Time

Indexed keywords

CIVIL WAR; ECONOMETRICS; ETHNIC CONFLICT; ETHNICITY; MULTICULTURALISM; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 78649704753     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.033     Document Type: Article

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