List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments EDITORS' INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER T. David Mason, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, and Alyssa K. Prorok PART I: FACTORS THAT BRING ABOUT CIVIL WAR Chapter 1: Introduction - Patterns of Armed Conflict since 1945 Nils Petter Gleditsch, Erik Melander, and Henrik Urdal Chapter 2: Antecedents of Civil War Onset: Greed, Grievance, and State Repression Joseph K. Young Chapter 3: Identity Issues and Civil War: Ethnic and Religious Divisions Lee J.M. Seymour and Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham Chapter 4: State Capacity, Regime Type, and Civil War Karl DeRouen Jr. and David Sobek Chapter 5: Transnational Dimensions of Civil Wars: Clustering. Contagion, and Connectedness Erika Forsberg PART II: FACTORS THAT END CIVIL WARS AND PROMOTE PEACE Chapter 6: Third Party Intervention and the Duration and Outcomes of Civil Wars Christopher Linebarger and Andrew Enterline Chapter 7: Ripe for Resolution: Third Party Mediation and Negotiating Peace Agreements Jacob D. Kathman and Megan Shannon Chapter 8: Negotiated Peace: Power Sharing in Peace Agreements Caroline A. Hartzell Chapter 9: Breaking the Conflict Trap: The Impact of Peacekeeping on Violence and Democratization in the Post-Conflict Context Paul F. Diehl Chapter 10: The Legacies of Civil War: Health, Education, and Economic Development Clayton L. Thyne PART III: EMERGING TRENDS IN CIVIL WAR RESEARCH Chapter 11: Transitional Justice: Prospects for Post-War Peace and Human Rights Jacqueline H.R. DeMeritt Chapter 12: Gender and Civil Wars Erik Melander Chapter 13: Exploring the Resource-Civil War Nexus Benjamin Smith Chapter 14: Environment and Conflict Cullen Hendrix, Scott Gates, and Halvard Buhaug Chapter 15: Trends in Civil War Data: Geography, Organizations, and Events David E. Cunningham, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, and Idean Salehyan Author Biographies References Index
