In this issue:

• Introduction
• New Conflict Directory
• New Search Engine
• New Research
• Upcoming March Conference
• To subscribe or unsubscribe

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Introduction
Dear friends,

We are pleased to send you our second newsletter from the Economics of Civil War, Crime, and Violence research project at the World Bank. Our first newsletter was circulated last July. Since then, there have been a number of new developments in our project which we would like to tell you about. If this is the first newsletter you receive from us, you can learn more about our project at:



We are happy to introduce the new features of our web site which will help us create a world-wide network of researchers working on conflict issues.

New Conflict Directory
The first feature is a directory of people interested in various aspects of conflict. You can all sign up and provide information on your interests as well as your e-mail address to facilitate communication between people with similar interests across the globe. Please sign up at:



To view the people already registered with our site, visit the directory page here:



New Search Engine
The second new feature is a search engine, which will greatly facilitate your browsing through sites relevant to conflict. This feature allows you to browse quickly through HTML, Word, and PDF files on the internet that we have identified as particularly interesting to conflict researchers.

Try out our new search engine at:



A list of the recommended sites are also available on our links summary page:



Our list of links will continuously grow, making this search engine more useful over time. If you would like us to link to your web site, please contact Nicholas Sambanis, the newsletter's editor at: nsambanis@worldbank.org. We would appreciate it if you would link to us in return.

New Research
We are happy to announce that we have made significant progress on several research projects, including game-theoretic analyses of the dynamics of civil wars, statistical analyses of the motives for rebellion and of the determinants of war termination, studies of the correlates of peacebuilding success and of ethnic partitions.

The new additions to our papers include:

A paper by Paul Collier on "The Challenges of Ugandan Reconstruction, 1986-98": http://www.worldbank.org/research/conflict/papers/uganda.htm

A second paper by Paul entitled "Doing Well Out of War," http://www.worldbank.org/research/conflict/papers/econagenda.htm

Paul's second paper is a non-technical exposition of some of the arguments developed in Paul Collier's and Anke Hoeffler's work on civil war occurrence and war duration:

http://www.worldbank.org/research/conflict/papers/justice.htm
http://www.worldbank.org/research/conflict/papers/duration.htm
http://www.worldbank.org/research/conflict/papers/cw-cause.htm

A concept/survey paper on post-conflict peacebuilding by Michael Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis on "Building Peace: Challenges and Strategies After Civil War":
http://www.worldbank.org/research/conflict/papers/building.htm

And a paper by Nicholas Sambanis on "Partition as a Solution to Ethnic War: An Empirical Critique of the Theoretical Literature": http://www.worldbank.org/research/conflict/papers/partition.htm

We also like to direct your attention to another very interesting project conducted by the International Peace Academy (IPA).

In consultation with the World Bank team working on conflict, the IPA has mounted a policy development project on economic agendas in civil wars which complements the Bank's work in this area. The IPA held a conference on this topic in London in April 1999, which produced a very interesting volume: Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars, Mats Berdal and David M. Malone (Eds.), Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000 (forthcoming).

You can visit the IPA's web site by searching for it through our search engine or by locating it in our links page above.

Upcoming March Conference
Researchers affiliated with our project will be presenting their work-in-progress at a workshop to be held at the Center of International Studies of Princeton University on March 18/19, 2000. We will soon circulate another newsletter with the March workshop agenda and the names of participants. The conference papers, along with all other research conducted by project participants for the March workshop, will be made available on this site. You can also participate in the workshop through this web site, so stay tuned for more information!

To Receive or Stop Receiving this Newsletter
We welcome your suggestions of additional material to include in our web site and in future editions of this newsletter. We are especially interested in learning about new papers and data sets, and in helping to share this information with others. If you have questions or suggestions about substantive aspects of the research project, or would like to request links from our web site to yours, please contact Nicholas Sambanis <<a href="mailto:nsambanis&worldbank.org" />nsambanis@worldbank.org>. 

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