In plain sight? Reconsidering the linkage between brideprice and violent conflict1:

TL;DR: This chapter explores the connection between women's rights and political violence, theorizing that women's rights adoption signals liberalism, fosters civil society, and reduces state repression, particularly when accompanied by women's advocacy organizations.

TL;DR: This paper critiques the conflation of gender equality and women's status in scholarship and policymaking, demonstrating how concept stretching limits the women, peace, and security policy agenda by obscuring distinct concepts and exacerbating existing problems.

TL;DR: This introductory chapter explores the connection between women's status and political violence, highlighting the need to overcome concept stretching and measurement invalidity through careful conceptualization and measurement to understand the impact of women's inclusion, rights, and gender roles on violence.

TL;DR: In the period 1946-2001, there were 225 armed conflicts and 34 of them were active in all of or part of 2001 as mentioned in this paper, and this dataset has now been backdated to the end of World War II.

TL;DR: Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 on the heels of a decade of political violence and protest not only in remote corners of Africa and Southeast Asia, but also at home in the United States as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In the literature on civil war onset, several empirical results are not robust or replicable across studies as mentioned in this paper, and studies use different definitions of civil war and analyze different time periods, so re...

TL;DR: This paper found that youth bulges are particularly associated with an increasing risk of internal armed conflict in starkly autocratic regimes, but a similar effect is also found for highly democratic countries.