Autonomi och inbördeskrig
(2010) STVK01 20101Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- In this paper the relationship of territorial autonomy and civil war duration is explained. Going against the often used treatment of autonomy as a conflict-solving mechanism the author argues that the granting of territorial autonomy to a certain group actually can prolong armed conflicts. Building upon data from UCDP’s conflict termination dataset and QoG time-series data, a wide dataset containing 258 independent intrastate armed conflicts from the period 1960 to 2008 is created to test the theory stated. En route to provide isolation regarding the effect of territorial autonomy on the duration of intrastate conflict, the method used is multiple regression analysis containing other widely used explanatory factors on civil war duration,... (More)
- In this paper the relationship of territorial autonomy and civil war duration is explained. Going against the often used treatment of autonomy as a conflict-solving mechanism the author argues that the granting of territorial autonomy to a certain group actually can prolong armed conflicts. Building upon data from UCDP’s conflict termination dataset and QoG time-series data, a wide dataset containing 258 independent intrastate armed conflicts from the period 1960 to 2008 is created to test the theory stated. En route to provide isolation regarding the effect of territorial autonomy on the duration of intrastate conflict, the method used is multiple regression analysis containing other widely used explanatory factors on civil war duration, namely per capita income, income inequality, ethnic fractionalization, population size, division of largest minority, and democracy. Testing the effect of territorial autonomy on civil war duration against these other variables provide positive results supporting the theory, concluding that autonomy has a positive statistically proven cause to lengthen civil war duration with a mean of 3,8 years, independent of the other variables tested. Apart from territorial autonomy, a moderate degree of ethnic fractionalization stands significant with a positive relationship to civil war duration with regard to the other variables, providing support for previous literature results on civil war duration. (Less)
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- author
- Carlsson, Fredrik LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Påverkar territoriell autonomi inomstatliga väpnade konflikters varaktighet?
- course
- STVK01 20101
- year
- 2010
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- autonomy, autonomi, autonomous regions, civil war, duration, inbördeskrig, intrastate conflict, varaktighet
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1608356
- date added to LUP
- 2010-06-29 16:46:54
- date last changed
- 2010-06-29 16:46:54
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abstract = {{In this paper the relationship of territorial autonomy and civil war duration is explained. Going against the often used treatment of autonomy as a conflict-solving mechanism the author argues that the granting of territorial autonomy to a certain group actually can prolong armed conflicts. Building upon data from UCDP’s conflict termination dataset and QoG time-series data, a wide dataset containing 258 independent intrastate armed conflicts from the period 1960 to 2008 is created to test the theory stated. En route to provide isolation regarding the effect of territorial autonomy on the duration of intrastate conflict, the method used is multiple regression analysis containing other widely used explanatory factors on civil war duration, namely per capita income, income inequality, ethnic fractionalization, population size, division of largest minority, and democracy. Testing the effect of territorial autonomy on civil war duration against these other variables provide positive results supporting the theory, concluding that autonomy has a positive statistically proven cause to lengthen civil war duration with a mean of 3,8 years, independent of the other variables tested. Apart from territorial autonomy, a moderate degree of ethnic fractionalization stands significant with a positive relationship to civil war duration with regard to the other variables, providing support for previous literature results on civil war duration.}},
author = {{Carlsson, Fredrik}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Autonomi och inbördeskrig}},
year = {{2010}},
}