#12148. Conflict Environments and Civil War Onset

July 2026publication date
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Abstract:
The spread of civil war poses serious risks and costs. We argue that conflict environments, which vary across time and space, systematically exacerbate the spread of civil war. As conflict in neighborhood states becomes more spatially proximate and as lingering effects of conflict accumulate over time, that states risk of civil war onset increases. To theorize and test this argument, we construct the conflict environment (CE) score, a concept that taps into spatial and temporal dimensions of violence in a states neighborhood. Using the CE score in established empirical models of civil war onset, we demonstrate that a dangerous conflict environment consistently elevates the risk of civil war, outperforming traditional measures of nearby violence, even when domestic factors are taken into account.
Keywords:
civil war; conflict environments; contagion; memory

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