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Malnutrition and violent conflict in a heating world: A mediation analysis on the climate–conflict nexus in Nigeria

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251318566?af=R

Published: May 13, 2025 05:32

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. Climate variability is increasingly gaining recognition as a factor exacerbating risks to peace in Africa, particularly in contexts characterized by weak institutions and fragile agri-food systems. Existing…

Trained to rebel: Rebel leaders’ military training and the dynamics of civil conflicts

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251333389?af=R

Published: May 10, 2025 06:05

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. Rebel leaders can prolong civil wars. Although past research has examined how rebel groups have shaped civil wars, little attention has been paid to rebel leaders. I argue that civil wars last longer and are less…

How United Nations peace operations can help overcome perils to post-conflict elections

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251322287?af=R

Published: May 10, 2025 05:55

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. Agreeing to elections is generally seen as a key way to settle armed conflict and prevent recurrent violence. However, the transition from violent conflict to nonviolent electoral competition can be fraught with…

The 2023/24 VIEWS Prediction challenge: Predicting the number of fatalities in armed conflict, with uncertainty

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433241300862?af=R

Published: May 6, 2025 09:04

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. Governmental and nongovernmental organizations have increasingly relied on early-warning systems of conflict to support their decisionmaking. Predictions of war intensity as probability distributions prove closer…

CORRIGENDUM to Mitigating election violence locally: UN peacekeepers’ election-education campaigns in Côte d’Ivoire by Hannah Smidt

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251324149?af=R

Published: May 6, 2025 09:02

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print.

Reliable knowledge claims on the recruitment and use of children: An empirical perspective

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251318862?af=R

Published: May 3, 2025 06:02

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. The risks of child recruitment by non-state armed groups are geographically, temporally and contextually situated. There are multilayered, multivariate arrays of risk factors associated with non-state armed…

Giving a hand to autocrats: Are Russia’s high-level visits for authoritarian durability?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251318911?af=R

Published: April 30, 2025 01:50

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. The existing literature largely agrees that Russia and China actively bolster and protect authoritarian regimes as alternatives to liberal democracies. While empirical research predominantly focuses on economic…

Expanding the Peace Accords Matrix Implementation Dataset: Partial peace agreements in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement negotiation and implementation process, 1989–2021

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251322596?af=R

Published: April 19, 2025 05:27

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. This article presents an expansion of the Peace Accords Matrix Implementation Dataset, incorporating data on partial agreements and newly established Comprehensive Peace Agreements. The new Peace Accords Matrix…

The challenges of surveying in war zones: Lessons from Ukraine

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251321763?af=R

Published: April 19, 2025 05:25

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. Conflict scholars commonly employ public opinion surveys to understand the causes and consequences of violence. However, surveying in wartime presents a distinctive set of challenges. We examine two challenges…

Multidimensional effects of conflict-induced violence on wartime migration decisions: evidence from Ukraine

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251317838?af=R

Published: April 19, 2025 05:23

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. This study makes three key contributions to the literature on the effect of conflict-induced violence on wartime migration. First, while conflict-induced violence is often treated as a monolithic factor, we…

International economic sanctions and conflict prevention in self-determination disputes

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433251317460?af=R

Published: April 7, 2025 04:48

Journal of Peace Research, Ahead of Print. Can international sanctions prevent civil war? Despite the increased scholarly and policy focus on conflict prevention, we lack an understanding of the impact of a commonly used tool of the international community…