Conflict by latitude: Disentangling the spatial clustering of civil war
Conflict Management and Peace Science
Published online on June 23, 2026
Abstract
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Civil wars in the post-Cold War period concentrate in lower latitudes. We investigate the sensitivity of the strong negative latitude–conflict correlation to eight plausible mediating factors: climate, geography, age of first settlement, demography, ...
Civil wars in the post-Cold War period concentrate in lower latitudes. We investigate the sensitivity of the strong negative latitude–conflict correlation to eight plausible mediating factors: climate, geography, age of first settlement, demography, ...