Development Assistance

We included the following 52 research reports in our review:

Ahmed, Faisal Z.; Werker, Eric D. "Aid and the Rise and Fall of Conflict in the Muslim World," Quarterly Journal of Political Science, vol. 10, no. 2 (2015): 155-186, DOI: 10.1561/100.00014060.

Andersen, Regine. "How Multilateral Development Assistance Triggered the Conflict in Rwanda," Third World Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3 (2010): 441-456, DOI: /10.1080/713701045. 

Baare, Anton. "Development Aid as Third-Party Intervention: A Case Study of the Uganda National Rescue Front II Peace Process," Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, vol. 2, no. 1 (2004): 21-36, DOI: 10.1080/15423166.2004.202396794586. 

Bluhm, R.; Gassebner, M.; Langlotz, S.; Schaudt, P. "Fueling conflict? (De)escalation and bilateral aid," Journal of Applied Econometrics, (first published 2020), DOI: 10.1002/jae.2797.

Boyce, James K. "Aid Conditionality as a Tool for Peacebuilding: Opportunities and Constraints," Development and Change, vol. 33, no. 5 (2002): 1025-1048, DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.t01-1-00259. 

Boyce, James K. “Aid, Conditionality, and War Economies,” Economics Department Working Paper Series, 2004, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/72/. 

Braithwaite, Jessica Maves; Licht, Amanda Abigail. "The Effect of Civil Society Organizations and Democratization Aid on Civil War Onset," Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 64, no. 6 (2020): 1095-1120, DOI: 10.1177/0022002719888684. 

Branch, Adam. "Humanitarianism, Violence, and the Camp in Northern Uganda," Civil Wars, vol. 11, no. 4 (2009): 477-501, DOI: 10.1080/13698240903403857.

Bsisu, Naji; Murdie, Amanda. "Interventions and repression following civil conflict," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 59, no. 2 (2022), 213-228, DOI: 10.1177/00223433211010857.

Choi, Hyun Jin; Park, Jiyoun. "Cash-based aid and civil war violence: New evidence from Myanmar (2012–2020)," Research & Politics, vol. 9, no. 1 (2022), DOI: 10.1177/20531680221076246.

Crawford, Gordon. "Foreign aid and political conditionality: Issues of effectiveness and consistency," Democratization, vol. 4, no. 3 (1997): 69-108, DOI: 10.1080/13510349708403526.

Crost, Benjamin; Felter, Joseph; Johnston, Patrick. "Aid Under Fire: Development Projects and Civil Conflict," The American Economic Review, vol. 104, no. 6 (2014): 1833-1856, DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.6.1833.

De Juan, Alexander. "Heterogeneous Effects of Development Aid on Violent Unrest in Postwar Countries: Village-Level Evidence from Nepal," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 64 (2020): 168-182, DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqz090. 

De Ree, J.; Nillesen, E. "Aiding violence or peace? The impact of foreign aid on the risk of civil conflict in sub-Saharan Africa," Journal of Development Economics, vol. 88, no. 2 (2009): 301-313, DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.03.005.

Ehrenfeld, Daniel; Kogut, Shira Yael; Hove, Hilary. "Aid Conditionality and the Peace Process: An Analysis of its Implementation," International Journal on World Peace, vol. 20, no. 4 (2003): 59-96, DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20753421. 

Findley, Michael G.; Powell, Josh; Strandow, Daniel; Tanner, Jeff. "The Localized Geography of Foreign Aid: A New Dataset and Application to Violent Armed Conflict," World Development, vol. 39, no. 11 (2011): 1995-2009, DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.07.022. 

Frerks, Georg; Klem, Bart. Conditioning Peace among Protagonists: A Study into the use of Peace Conditionalities in the Sri Lankan Peace Process, Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Clingendael, 2006, https://www.clingendael.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/20060600_cru_frerks_klem.pdf.

Goodhand, Jonathan. Conditioning Peace? The scope and limitations of Peace Conditionalities in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Clingendael, 2006, https://www.clingendael.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/20060800_cru_goodhand.pdf. 

Greig, J. Michael. "Helping without hurting: ameliorating the negative effects of humanitarian assistance on civil wars through mediation," International Interactions, vol. 47, no. 1 (2021), 79-106, DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2020.1814763.

Huliaras, Asteris. "Foreign aid to the Balkans (1990-2010): the dynamics of the ‘silent’ human security agenda," Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, vol. 11, no. 4 (2011): 421-434, DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2011.632543. 

Jadoon, Amira. "Persuasion and Predation: The Effects of U.S. Military Aid and International Development Aid on Civilian Killings," Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, vol. 41, no. 10 (2018): 776-800, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2017.1353355.

Karell, Daniel; Schutte, Sebastian. "Aid, exclusion, and the local dynamics of insurgency in Afghanistan," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 55, no. 6 (2018): 711-725, DOI: 10.1177/0022343318777566.

Kiyani, Ghashia. "US aid and substitution of human rights violations," Conflict Management and Peace Science, vol. 39, no. 5 (2022), 587-608, DOI: 10.1177/07388942211045045.

Kuperman, Alan J. "Moral hazard in Sudan’s ‘Two Areas’ – humanitarianism that perpetuates civil war," Conflict, Security & Development, vol. 22, no. 1 (2022), 47-77, DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2022.2034367.

Lyall, Jason. "Civilian Casualties and the Conditional Effects of Humanitarian Aid in Wartime," 2016, https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2_lyall_acap2.pdf.

Mampilly, Zachariah. "A Marriage of Inconvenience: Tsunami Aid and the Unraveling of the LTTE and the GoSL's Complex Dependency," Civil Wars, vol. 11, no. 3 (2009): 302-320, DOI: 10.1080/13698240903157545.

Mary, Sébastien; Mishra, Ashok K. "Humanitarian food aid and civil conflict," World Development, vol. 126, no. (2020): 1-11, https://asu.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/humanitarian-food-aid-and-civil-conflict. 

Meininghaus, Esther. "Humanitarianism in intra-state conflict: aid inequality and local governance in government- and opposition-controlled areas in the Syrian war," Third World Quarterly, (2016): 1-29, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2016.1159509. 

Mousseau, Demet Yalcin. "Does Foreign Development Aid Trigger Ethnic War in Developing States?," Armed Forces and Society, (2020): 1-20, DOI: 10.1177/0095327X20902180. 

Mross, Karina; Fiedler, Charlotte; Grävingholt, Jörn. "Identifying Pathways to Peace: How International Support Can Help Prevent Conflict Recurrence," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 1 (2021), sqab091, DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqab091.

Mross, Karina. "Disaggregating democracy aid to explain peaceful democratisation after civil wars," European Journal of International Security, vol. 7, no. 2 (2021), 164-188, DOI: 10.1017/eis.2021.36.

Narang, Neil. "Assisting Uncertainty: How Humanitarian Aid can Inadvertently Prolong Civil War," International Studies Quarterly, (2014): 1-12, DOI: 10.1111/isqu.12151.

Narang, Neil. "Humanitarian Assistance and the Duration of Peace after Civil War," Journal of Politics, vol. 76, no. 2 (2014): 446-460, DOI: 10.1017/S0022381613001382.

Nielsen, Richard A.; Findley, Michael G.; Davis, Zachary S.; Candland, Tara; Nielson, Daniel L. "Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict," American Journal of Political Science, vol. 55, no. 2 (2011): 219-232, DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00492.x.

Nourou, Mohammadou. "Foreign Aid and Development: The Civil Conflict Channel Reexamined," International Economic Journal, vol. 34, no. 1 (2020): 1-15, DOI: 10.1080/10168737.2019.1663438.

Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy. "US Food Aid and Civil Conflict," The American Economic Review, vol. 104, no. 6 (2014): 1630-1666, DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.6.1630.

Parks, Thomas; Colletta, Nat; Oppenheim, Ben. The Contested Corners of Asia: Subnational Conflict and International Development Assistance, The Asia Foundation, 2013, https://asiafoundation.org/publication/the-contested-corners-of-asia-subnational-conflict-and-international-development-assistance/. 

Regan, Patrick M. "U.S. Economic Aid and Political Repression: An Empirical Evaluation of U.S. Foreign Policy," Political Research Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 3 (1995): 613-628, DOI: 10.2307/449005. 

Savun, Burcu; Tirone, Daniel C. "Foreign Aid, Democratization, and Civil Conflict: How Does Democracy Aid Affect Civil Conflict?," American Journal of Political Science, vol. 55, no. 2 (2011): 233-246, DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00501.x. 

Savun, Burcu; Tirone, Daniel C. "Exogenous Shocks, Foreign Aid, and Civil War," International Organization, vol. 66, no. 3 (2012): 363-393, DOI: 10.1017/S0020818312000136.

Shyrokykh, Karina. "Human rights sanctions and the role of black knights: Evidence from the EU’s post-Soviet neighbours," Journal of European Integration, vol. 44, no. 3 (2022), 429-449, DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2021.1908278.

Sindre, Gyda Marås. "Rebels and Aid in the Context of Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Disaster: A Comparison of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Tamil Tigers (LTTE)," Forum for Development Studies, vol. 41, no. 1 (2014): 1-21, DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2013.832704. 

Strandow, Daniel; Findley, Michael G.; Young, Joseph K. “Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict,” Working Paper 24, AidData, 2016, https://www.aiddata.org/publications/foreign-aid-and-the-intensity-of-violent-armed-conflict. 

SzabÓ, Krisztina. "Smoothing the Way or Stirring the Pot: The Impact of Foreign Aid Shocks on Conflict in Recipient Countries," The Journal of Development Studies, vol. 58, no. 8 (2022), 1501-1515, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2022.2048651.

Tahir, Nadia. "Does aid cause conflict in Pakistan?," Defence and Peace Economics, (2015): 1-24, DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2014.1000007.

Tschunkert, Dr. Kristina. The World Food Programme’s Contribution to Improving the Prospects for Peace in Lebanon, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2021, https://www.sipri.org/publications/2021/policy-reports/world-food-programmes-contribution-improving-prospects-peace-lebanon. 

Uvin, Peter. The Influence of Aid in Situations of Violent Conflict, OECD - Informal Task Force On Conflict, Peace and Development Co-Operation, 1999, https://reliefweb.int/report/world/influence-aid-situations-violent-conflict-synthesis-and-commentary-lessons-learned-case. 

Van Veen, Erwin; Pellise, Alba Di Pietrantonio; Ezzeddine, Nancy; Napolitano, Paolo. Band-aids, not bullets: EU policies and interventions in the Syrian and Iraqi civil wars, Clingendael, 2021, https://www.clingendael.org/pub/2021/eu-relevance-in-the-syrian-and-iraqi-civil-wars/. 

Weintraub, Michael. "Do All Good Things Go Together? Development Assistance and Insurgent Violence in Civil War," Journal of Politics, vol. 78, no. 4 (2016): 989-1002, DOI: 10.1086/686026. 

Wood, Reed M; Sullivan, Christopher. "Doing Harm by Doing Good? The Negative Externalities of Humanitarian Aid Provision during Civil Conflict," The Journal of Politics, vol. 77, no. 3 (2015): 1-34, DOI: 10.1086/681239. 

Wood, Reed M.; Molfino, Emily. “Aiding Victims, Abetting Violence: The Influence of Humanitarian Aid on Violence Patterns during Civil Conflict,” 2016, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305887750_Aiding_Victims_Abetting_Violence_The_Influence_of_Humanitarian_Aid_on_Violence_Patterns_During_Civil_Conflict.

Zürcher, Christoph. "The folly of ‘aid for stabilisation’," Third World Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 5 (2019): 839-854, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2019.1576519.