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Just like nearly every aspect of human experience, crime, conflict, and violence have become increasingly global. Around the world, civil wars, of which there are more today than at any time since the end of World War II, displace greater numbers of people ever farther from their countries of origin...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Corporate Author: World Bank. Development Research Group (sponsoring body.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : The World Bank, [2020]
Series:World Bank policy research report.
Subjects:
Transnational crime.
Violence.
Terrorism.
Terrorism
Transnational crime
Violence
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Executive Summary
  • Abbreviations
  • Overview
  • Notes
  • Reference
  • Chapter 1 Crime, Conflict, and Violence without Borders
  • Armed conflict
  • Transnational terrorism
  • Illicit markets
  • Conclusion
  • Annex1A The geographic dispersion of refugees
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 2 Transborder Determinants of Crime, Conflict, and Violence
  • The theoretical framework
  • Transborder drivers of conflict, crime, and violence
  • Can violence be avoided?
  • Foreign military interventions and development assistance
  • Conclusion.
  • Annex 2A Contest model
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 3 Security in a Globalized World
  • Third-party interventions to prevent violence
  • When will other countries intervene in conflict situations?
  • Limits to the effectiveness of third-party interventions
  • Multilateralism and the delegation of foreign interventions
  • Concluding remarks and policy recommendations
  • Annex 3A The determinants of foreign interventions in civil conflict
  • Notes
  • References
  • Boxes
  • Box 1.1 The gaps and data limitations of datasets on armed conflicts
  • Box 2.1 Sanctions.
  • Box 2.2 Anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism
  • Figures
  • Figure 1.1 Armed conflicts: Incidence and fatalities, by type, 1989-2017
  • Figure 1.2 State-based armed conflicts, by type, 1946-2017
  • Figure 1.3 All armed conflicts, by type, 1989-2017
  • Figure 1.4 Global refugee population, 1951-2017
  • Figure 1.5 Average distance traveled by a refugee, 1987-2017
  • Figure 1.6 Share of refugees going to a contiguous country, 1987-2017
  • Figure 1.7 Mean Herfindahl index of destinations, five-year moving average, 1991-2017.
  • Figure 1.8 Terrorist attacks and fatalities worldwide, 1970-2017
  • Figure 1.9 Transnational terrorist attacks and fatalities, 1970-2017
  • Figure 1.10 Cultivation and production of illicit narcotics, 1986-2017
  • Figure 1.11 Trends in detection of human trafficking, 2003-16
  • Figure 1.12 Domestic poaching incidents and transnational seizures
  • Figure 1.13 Piracy attacks, 1991-2018
  • Figure 1A.1 Average distance traveled by a refugee, five-year moving average, 1991-2017
  • Figure 1A.2 Share of refugees going to a contiguous country, five-year moving average, 1991-2017.
  • Figure 1A.3 Refugees fleeing to wealthy OECD and European countries, five-year moving average
  • Figure 2.1 Equilibrium in a contest game
  • Figure 2.2 Determinants of violence in the contest success function model
  • Figure 2.3 Contest game and the cone of possible resource allocations
  • Figure 3.1 Trends in United Nations peacekeeping operations and global aid flows, 1947-2017
  • Figure 3.2 Intrastate wars and the number of foreign countries intervening, 1990-2017
  • Figure 3.3 Likelihood of foreign interventions over time, 1990-2017
  • Figure 3.4 Drivers of foreign interventions in civil wars
  • Figure 3.5 Probability that a war will continue and probability of foreign intervention, by length of war.

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