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Conflict in Africa: The Cost of Peaceful Behaviour

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  • Tony Addison
  • Philippe Le Billon
  • Mansoob Murshed

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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. The paper therefore uses a two-actor model to capture the continuum from total war to complete peace that often characterises Africa's conflicts.

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  • Tony Addison & Philippe Le Billon & Mansoob Murshed, 2001. "Conflict in Africa: The Cost of Peaceful Behaviour," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2001-51, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:dp2001-51
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