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Understanding Conflict Resolution

Sixth Edition
by Peter Wallensteen

Student Resources

  • Annotated Further Readings
    • Chapter 1: Understanding conflict resolution
    • Chapter 2: Armed conflicts and peace agreements
    • Chapter 3: Approaches to conflict resolution
    • Chapter 4: Analysing conflict resolution
    • Chapter 5: The resolution of conflicts between states
    • Chapter 6: Conflict resolution in civil wars
    • Chapter 7: Conflict resolution in state formation conflicts
    • Chapter 8: Conflict complexes and internationalization of conflicts
    • Chapter 9: International organizations in conflict resolution
    • Chapter 10: Coercion and enforcement
    • Chapter 11: Conflict prevention and peacebuilding
    • Chapter 12: Universal themes for conflict resolution
    • Chapter 13: Global challenges to conflict resolution
    • Chapter 14: Prosects for peacebuilding in the 2020s
  • Sage Journal Articles
    • Chapter 1: Understanding conflict resolution
    • Chapter 2: Armed conflicts and peace agreements
    • Chapter 3: Approaches to conflict resolution
    • Chapter 4: Analysing conflict resolution
    • Chapter 5: The resolution of conflicts between states
    • Chapter 6: Conflict resolution in civil wars
    • Chapter 7: Conflict resolution in state formation conflicts
    • Chapter 8: Conflict complexes and internationalization of conflicts
    • Chapter 9: International organizations in conflict resolution
    • Chapter 10: Coercion and enforcement
    • Chapter 11: Conflict prevention and peacebuilding
    • Chapter 12: Universal themes for conflict resolution
    • Chapter 13: Global challenges to conflict resolution
    • Chapter 14: Prospects for peacebuilding in the 2020s
  • Sage Videos
    • Chapter 5: The resolution of conflicts between states
    • Chapter 9: International organizations in conflict resolution
    • Chapter 10: Coercion and enforcement
    • Chapter 11: Conflict prevention and peacebuilding
    • Chapter 12: Universal themes for conflict resolution
    • Chapter 14: Prospects for peacebuilding in the 2020s
  • Datasets
  • Glossary

Chapter 6: Conflict resolution in civil wars

Fjelde, Hanne 2009. ‘Buying Peace? Oil Wealth, Corruption and Civil War, 1985–99’, Journal of Peace Research, 49 (2): 199–218. 

Hegre, Håvard and Håvard Mokleiv Nygård 2014. ‘Governance and Conflict Relapse’, Journal of Conflict Resolution. February 28. Online version. 

Mason, T. David and Patrick J. Fett 1996. ‘How Civil Wars End: A Rational Choice Approach’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 40: 546–68. 

Nilsson, Desirée 2008. ‘Partial Peace: Rebel Groups Inside and Outside of Civil War Settlements’, Journal of Peace Research, 45: 479–95. 

Walter, B.F. 2004. ‘Does Conflict Beget Conflict? Explaining Recurring Civil War’, Journal of Peace Research, 41 (3): 371–88. 

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