Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228043 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/20/066
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
We investigate persistence and determinants of deaths from conflicts in a sample of 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. First, the findings are contingent on income levels, religiousdomination, landlockedness, regional proximity and legal origins. The persistence of deaths in internal conflict is more apparent in coastal, French civil-law and Islam-oriented countries, compared to landlocked, English common law, Christian-oriented countries, respectively. Second, the following factors are generally responsible for driving deaths from internal conflicts: homicides, conflict intensity and conflicts fought. Furthermore, incarcerations have negative effects on internal conflicts. Justifications for the established tendencies and policy implications are discussed.
Subjects: 
War
Conflicts
Global evidence
Persistence
JEL: 
H56
L64
K42
P50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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