ABSTRACT
This chapter examines recent research that lends new support to the connection between grievance and violent conflict and spends significant time examining the recent work of Cederman, Wimmer, and Min. Rebels have always claimed that grievance plays a key role in why they take up arms. The Declaration of Independence promulgated in 1776 by the Continental Congress of the United States is fairly clear on this point when it states that "The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations" and then goes on to elucidate a laundry list of grievances against King George III. Political scientists, sociologists, and other social scientists look for more than the word of rebels or at only one case as evidence that grievance plays a key role in the outbreak of rebellions, ethnic conflict, or other forms of sub-state political violence.
