Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; The Report Team; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Overview; Let Them Fight it Out among Themselves?; What Can We Do about Ancestral Hatreds?; The Conflict Trap; The Rising Global Incidence of Conflict; Nothing Can be Done; Part I -- Cry Havoc Why Civil War Matters; Chapter One -- Civil War as Development in Reverse; Chapter Two -- Let Them Fight it Out among Themselves?; Part II -- What Fuels Civil War?; Chapter Three -- What Makes a Country Prone to Civil War?; Chapter Four -- Why is Civil War so Common?; Part III -- Policies for Peace
Chapter Five -- What Works Where?Chapter Six -- An Agenda for International Action; Appendix 1 -- Methods and Data; Data Set and Model; Data Sources; Appendix 2 -- A Selected Bibliography of Studies of Civil War and Rebellion; Economic Factors; Role of Ethnicity and Nationalism; Anatomy of Rebellion; Role of the State; Negotiation and Implementation of Peace; Bibliography; References; Back cover
Summary
Civil war conflict is a core development issue. The existence of civil war can dramatically slow a country's development process, especially in low-income countries which are more vulnerable to civil war conflict. Conversely, development can impede civil war. When development succeeds, countries become safer-when development fails, they experience a greater risk of being caught in a conflict trap. Ultimately, civil war is a failure of development.'Breaking the Conflict Trap' identifies the dire consequences that civil war has on the development process and offers three main findings. First, ci
