Conflict in Africa: The cost of peaceful behaviour

被引：42

作者：

Addison, T ^{[1
]}

Le Billon, P

Murshed, SM

机构：

[1] United Nations Univ, WIDER, Tokyo, Japan

[2] Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada

[3] Inst Social Studies, NL-2509 LS The Hague, Netherlands

来源：

JOURNAL OF AFRICAN ECONOMIES | 2002年 / 11卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.1093/jae/11.3.365

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

War provides economic opportunities, such as the capture of valuable natural resources, that are unavailable in peacetime. However, belligerents may prefer low-intensity conflict to total war when the former has a greater pay-off. This paper therefore uses a two-actor model to capture the continuum from total war to complete peace that often characterises Africa's conflicts. This is in contrast to the existing literature, with its focus on mutually exclusive states of total war or complete peace, an assumption which is more relevant to Europe's inter-state wars than to Africa's civil wars. The paper also discusses ways to change the economic incentives of belligerents so that their behaviour becomes more peaceful.

引用

页码：365 / 386

页数：22

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