1. Greed and Grievance in Civil War
2. External Interventions and the Duration of Civil Wars
3. In a separate paper, Hamoudi shows that countries with "point source natural resources" (as classified by Isham and others [2002]) have experienced particularly evanescent growth paths, with income in real terms peaking during the early 1980s. The concavity is most pronounced for our "most commodity dependent" countries;This is particularly true for one set of commodity dependent countries-those with large natural resource deposits