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Replication Data for: When Disasters Hit Civil Wars: Natural Resource Exploitation and Rebel Group Resilience

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Title Replication Data for: When Disasters Hit Civil Wars: Natural Resource Exploitation and Rebel Group Resilience
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KNFKME
 
Creator Tominaga, Yasutaka
Lee, Chia-yi
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Existing literature on the relationship between natural disasters and conflicts provides mixed findings. In this article, we argue that whether natural disasters hurt rebel group resilience depends on their funding source and the mode of resource extraction. Rebel groups that obtain their funding from natural resources are more susceptible to natural disasters because this funding source could be easily disrupted by rapid-onset disasters. How rebel groups exploit natural resource wealth also conditions the effect of natural disasters on rebel group resilience. Rebel groups that depend on extorting resource production, despite having a seemingly stable revenue stream, are more likely to face funding cuts after a severe natural disaster. In contrast, rebel groups that rely on smuggling natural resources, due to a higher level of flexibility and mobility, are more likely to survive natural disasters. We test our arguments using data on armed groups, natural disasters, and rebel contraband, and the results of the logit models with interaction terms support our hypotheses. Our findings bridge the environmental conflict literature and the resource curse literature, and offer important policy implications.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Conflict, Natural Disasters, Armed Groups, Rebel Contraband, Resource Curse
 
Contributor Prins, Brandon