It's the local economy, stupid! geographic wealth dispersion and conflict outbreak location

Journal of Conflict Resolution

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 814-840

  Buhaug, Halvard ^a   Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede ^a   Holtermann, Helge ^a,b   Østby, Gudrun ^a   Tollefsen, Andreas Forø ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

conflict; geographic variation; inequality; onset location; spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952295207     PISSN: 00220027     EISSN: 15528766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022002711408011     Document Type: Article

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