​The overriding importance of political will to rebuild sound institutions, promote accountability and anti-corruption efforts, better invest revenues, and develop natural resource management strategies which address the grievances that could lead to further conflict is among the findings in the first book in a major international series on post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management.

The August issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution is a special issue dedicated to output from the Disaggregating Civil War project.

Päivi Lujala defended her dissertation in economics at NTNU on Monday 16 June.

Recent research on armed civil conflict has suggested that oil-producing countries tend to experience conflict more often than their non-oil-producing counterparts.