Book cover -- Peace and Conflict 2016Welcome to Peace and Conflict 2016, CIDCM's biennial publication providing key data and documenting trends in national and international conflicts.

Regular features include chapters that forecast the future risks of political and social instability, as well as report trends and patterns in conflict, democratization, and terrorism.
 
Contributors to Peace and Conflict 2016 include Caroline Bergeron, Nils-Christian Bormann, Tilman Brück, Halvard Buhaug, Lars-Erik Cederman, Deniz Cil, David E. Cunningham, Karsten Donnay, Laura Dugan, Hanne Fjelde, Aude-Emmanuelle Fleurant, Mark Gibney, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Peter Haschke, Lisa Hultman, Madhav Joshi, Patricia Justino, Roudabeh Kishi, Anupma Kulkarni, Gary LaFree, Andrew M. Linke, Brad Parks, Yannick Quéau, Jason Michael Quinn, Clionadh Raleigh, Idean Salehyan, Margareta Sollenberg, Håvard Strand, Michael J. Tierney, Philip Verwimp, Manuel Vogt, and Reed M. Wood.
 
The full report is available in bookstores and from Routledge (www.routledge.com).
 
 
 
 
Peace and Conflict 2016
 
edited by David A. Backer, Ravi Bhavnani, and Paul K. Huth
 
Contents
 
Chapter 1
Introduction to Peace and Conflict 2016
David A. Backer, Ravi Bhavnani, and Paul K. Huth
 
Section I. Global Patterns and Trends
 
Chapter 2
The Cutting Edge of Research on Peace and Conflict
Karsten Donnay and Ravi Bhavnani
 
Chapter 3
Armed Conflict, 1946-2014
Håvard Strand and Halvard Buhaug
 
Chapter 4
Patterns and Trends of the Geography of Conflict
Roudabeh Kishi, Clionadh Raleigh, and Andrew M. Linke
 
Chapter 5
Violence against Civilians during Civil War
Hanne Fjelde, Lisa Hultman, and Margareta Sollenberg
 
Chapter 6
Non-State Actors in Civil War
David E. Cunningham, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, and Idean Salehyan
 
Chapter 7
Democracy, Ethnic Exclusion, and Civil Conflict: The Arab Spring Revolutions from a Global Comparative Perspective
Manuel Vogt, Nils-Christian Bormann, and Lars-Erik Cederman
 
Chapter 8
Global Terrorism and the Deadliest Groups since 2001
Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan
 
Chapter 9
Defense Spending, Arms Production and Transfers: The Political Economy of Defense in a Transitional Phase
Aude-Emmanuelle Fleurant and Yannick Quéau
 
Chapter 10
Global Trends in the Implementation of Intrastate Peace Agreements
Jason Michael Quinn and Madhav Joshi
 
Chapter 11
Why States Repress: Evaluating Global Patterns of Abuse with the Political Terror Scale
Reed M. Wood, Mark Gibney, and Peter Haschke
 
Chapter 12
Foreign Aid and Conflict: What We Know and Need to Know
Bradley Parks, Michael J. Tierney, and Caroline Bergeron
 
Chapter 13
The Peace and Conflict Instability Ledger: Ranking States on Future Risks
David A. Backer and Paul K. Huth
 
Section II. Special Feature
 
Chapter 14
New Developments in Measuring the Welfare Effects of Conflict Exposure at the Micro-Level
Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino, and Philip Verwimp
 
Section III. Profiles
 
Chapter 15
Active Armed Conflicts in 2014
Margareta Sollenberg
 
Chapter 16
United Nations Peacekeeping Missions Active in 2014
Deniz Cil
 
Chapter 17
Criminal Justice for Conflict-Related Violations–Developments during 2014
Anupma Kulkarni
 
 
Previous Editions:
 
Paradigm Publishers
© 2014
ISBN: 1612054353
pages 192
 
 
 
 
Paradigm Publishers
© 2011
ISBN: 1612050891
pages 160
edited by Joseph Hewitt, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Ted Robert Gurr
 
 
 
 
 
Paradigm Publishers
© 2009
ISBN: 1594517150
pages 160
edited by Joseph Hewitt, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Ted Robert Gurr
 
 
 
 
 
Paradigm Publishers
© 2007
ISBN: 1594514003
pages 144
edited by Joseph Hewitt, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Ted Robert Gurr
 
 
 
 
 
A Global Survey of Armed Conflicts, Self-Determination Movements, and Democracy
Released June 2005
by Monty G. Marshall, Ted Robert Gurr
 
 
 
 
 
 
A Global Survey of Armed Conflicts, Self-Determination Movements, and Democracy
Released February 2003
by Monty G. Marshall, Ted Robert Gurr
 
 
 
 
 
 
A Global Survey of Armed Conflicts, Self-Determination Movements, and Democracy
Released January 2001
by Ted Robert Gurr, Monty G. Marshall, Deepa Khosla