Columbia International Affairs Online
CIAO DATE: 11/5/2007
Corruption and Armed Conflicts: Some Stirring Around in the Governance Soup
2007
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Abstract
The paper discusses the impact of corruption on the probability of violent conflict events and traces the shifts in the composition of corrupt transactions during and in the aftermath of violent conflicts. So far there has been little interaction between empirical corruption research and the empirical research into civil wars. By bringing the two strands of research together and combining their results, the author claims that anomalies arise that would have been difficult to detect within each field in isolation.
