TY  - CHAP
AB  - This chapter intends to explore once more the vexing question of the relationship between environment and conflict and the role certain emotions like fear play in it. Given the fact that the empirical evidence about this relation is ambiguous, it suggests that the link between the two issues only makes sense and works whenever institutional factors such as the clear definition and enforcement of property rights are absent or weak within or across societies. The empirical cases of Rwanda and Nepal are used to illustrate this relationship. After a discussion of the data problems that the case raises, simulations of the conflict and the genocide of 1994 in Rwanda and of the Maoist uprising in Nepal are proposed. The simulation model accounts quite well for the conflict and genocide evolution in Rwanda and for the casualties of the uprising in Nepal.
VL  - 18
SN  - 978-0-85724-896-1, 978-0-85724-895-4/1572-8323
DO  - 10.1108/S1572-8323(2011)0000018017
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1572-8323(2011)0000018017
AU  - Luterbacher Urs
ED  - Manas Chatterji
ED  - Darvesh Gopal
ED  - Savita Singh
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Conflict, Environment, and the Dynamics of Fear: The Examples of Rwanda and Nepal
T2  - Governance, Development and Conflict
T3  - Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 339
EP  - 369
Y2  - 2024/09/21
ER  -