Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Violence, Conflict-Related

  • Reference work entry
  • First Online:
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics

  • 17 Accesses

Definition

Actions and events occurring in the context of warfare and armed conflict that result in economic losses, physical, and/or psychological trauma. These actions and events may include, and are not limiting to, injury, loss of life, property theft and destruction, displacement, sexual assault, forced displacement or detention, torture, and participating in or witnessing traumatic actions committed against others. The perpetrators and/or recipients of such actions need not be formal institutional actors. Violence may be caused by an actor’s willful intent and influence on others, or through negligence and failure to act to prevent trauma from taking place. Perpetrators of violence may also be adversely affected by actions they undertake or witness against others.

Literature

War and other forms of conflict-related violence have taken a profound toll on many people throughout the world. Between 1945 and 1999, Fearon and Laitin (2003) estimate that over 3 million people died in 25...

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 819.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD 1,099.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Algan Y, Cahuc P (2010) Inherited trust and growth. Am Econ Rev 100(5):2060–2092

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bauer M, Cassar A, Chytilová J, Henrich J (2014) War’s enduring effects on the development of egalitarian motivations and in-group biases. Psychol Sci 25(1):47–57

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Becchetti L, Conzo P, Romeo A (2011) Violence and social capital: evidence of a microeconomic vicious circle. Working papers 197, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

    Google Scholar 

  • Blattman C (2009) From violence to voting: war and political participation in Uganda. Am Polit Sci Rev 103:231

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bourdieu P (1985) The social space and the genesis of groups. Soc Sci Inf 24(2):195–220

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bowles S (2006) Group competition, reproductive leveling, and the evolution of human altruism. Science 314:1569

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bowles S, Herbert G (2006) Social preferences, homo economicus and zoon politikon. In: Robert E, Goodin RE, Charles T (eds) The Oxford handbook of work of contextual political analysis. Oxford University Press, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Boyd R, Richerson PJ (2005) Solving the puzzle of human cooperation. In: Levinson S (ed) Evolution and culture. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp 105–132

    Google Scholar 

  • Cassar A, Grosjean P, Whitt S (2013a) Legacies of violence: trust and market development. J Econ Growth 18(3):285–318

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cassar A, Grosjean P, Whitt S (2013b) Social preferences of ex-combatants: survey and experimental evidence from postwar Tajikistan. In: Wärneryd K (ed) The economics of conflict: theory and empirical evidence. MIT Press (Forthcoming)

    Google Scholar 

  • Collier P, Hoeffler A (2004) Greed and grievance in civil war. Oxford Econ Pap 56(4):563–595

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fafchamps M (2006) Development and social capital. J Dev Stud 42(7):1180–1198

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fearon JD, Laitin DD (2003) Ethnicity, insurgency, and civil war. Am Polit Sci Rev 97(1):75–90

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gilligan MJ, Pasquale BJ, Samii C (2011) Civil war and social capital: game-game evidence from Nepal. SSRN working paper number 1911969

    Google Scholar 

  • Gleditsch NP, Wallensteen P, Eriksson M, Sollenberg M, Strand H (2002) Armed conflict 1946–2001: a new dataset. J Peace Res 39(5):615–637

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Grosjean P (2014) Conflict and social and political preferences: evidence from World War II and civil conflict in 35 European countries, comparative economic studies, Mar 2014

    Google Scholar 

  • Guiso L, Sapienza P, Zingales L (2010) Civic capital as the missing link. NBER working papers 15845, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Henrich J, Ensminger J, McElreath R, Barr A, Barrett C, Bolyanatz A et al (2010) Markets, religion, community size, and the evolution of fairness and punishment. Science 327(5972):1480–1484

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • John B, Miguel E (2009) War and collective action in Sierra Leone. J Public Econ 93(11–12):1144–1157

    Google Scholar 

  • Kesternich I, Siflinger B, Smith JP, Winter J (2014) The effects of World War II on economic and health outcomes across Europe. Rev Econ Stat 96(1):103–118

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kim Y Il, Lee J (2012) Long run impact of traumatic experience on attitudes toward risk: study of Korean war and its impact on risk aversion. IZA working paper

    Google Scholar 

  • Knack S, Keefer P (1997) Does social capital have an economic payoff? A cross-country investigation. Q J Econ 112(4):1251–1288

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lacina B, Gleditsch NP (2005) Monitoring trends in global combat: a new dataset of battle deaths. Eur J Popul 21(2–3):145–166

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Nathan N, Wantchekon L (2011) The slave trade and the origins of mistrust in Africa. Am Econ Rev 101(7):3221–3252

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Portes A (1998) Social capital: its origins and applications in modern sociology. Annu Rev Sociol 24:1–24

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Putnam R (1995) Bowling alone: America’s declining social capital. J Democr:65–78

    Google Scholar 

  • Raleigh C, Hegre H (2005) Introducing ACLED: an armed conflict location and event dataset. Paper presented to the conference on ‘disaggregating the study of civil war and transnational violence’, University of California Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation, San Diego, 7–8 Mar

    Google Scholar 

  • Rohner D, Thoenig M, Zilibotti F (2013) Seeds of distrust: conflict in Uganda. J Econ Growth 18(3):217–252

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Satyanath S, Voigtlaender N, Voth H-J (2013) Bowling for fascism: social capital and the rise of the Nazi party in Weimar Germany, 1919–33. NBER working paper no. 19201

    Google Scholar 

  • Singer DJ, Small M (1994) Correlates of war project: international and civil war data, 1816–1992. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Ann Arbor

    Google Scholar 

  • Small M, Singer JD (1982) Resort to arms: international and civil war, 1816–1980. Sage, Beverly Hills

    Google Scholar 

  • Voors M, Nillesen E, Verwimp P, Bulte E, Lensink R, van Soest D (2012) Does conflict affect preferences? Results from field experiments in Burundi. Am Econ Rev 102(2):941–964

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Whitt S (2014) Social norms in the aftermath of ethnic violence: ethnicity and fairness in non-costly decision making. J Confl Resolut 58(1):93–119

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Whitt S, Wilson RK (2007) The dictator game, fairness and ethnicity in postwar Bosnia. Am J Polit Sci 51(3):655–668

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zak P, Knack S (2001) Trust and growth. Econ J 111:295–321

    Article  Google Scholar 

Further Reading

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Alessandra Cassar

  2. School of Economics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Pauline Grosjean

  3. High Point University, High Point, NC, USA

    Sam Whitt

Authors
  1. Alessandra Cassar
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Pauline Grosjean
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Sam Whitt
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Alessandra Cassar .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. MRE and University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  2. Faculté d’Economie, Université de Montpellier and LAMETA-UMR CNRS, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  3. DiGSPES, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

  4. IEL, Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2019 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature

About this entry

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this entry

Cassar, A., Grosjean, P., Whitt, S. (2019). Violence, Conflict-Related. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_571

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation