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I test the effects of civil conflict termination type on violence in major urban areas in the developing world. I find that conflict termination is significantly associated with more urban violence when conflicts end in defeat for the government. I argue that this is because opposition groups in major urban centers mobilize in response to signals of state weakness generated by defeat in civil conflict.
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This is one of the first cross-national quantitative empirical studies of the effects of civil conflict on urban social disorder and violence.
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This paper is most interesting when read alongside other contributions to the Third World Thematics special issue on the urban violence and civil conflict.
Henry Thomson
Arizona State University
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This page is a summary of: Conflict termination, signals of state weakness and violent urban social disorder in the developing world, Third World Thematics A TWQ Journal, June 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/23802014.2019.1628660.
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