ABSTRACT
The preceding chapters have explored the role of resources and governance structures in the onset, incidence, and termination of civil conflict. In various ways they detail the ways in which resources and governance regimes play important roles in the onset and the termination of civil conflicts. The contributions in our volume also highlight the importance of various forms of outside interventions. Several chapters further suggest that the importance of resource endowments and resource distributions is indeed often contingent on governance structures. Thus, the lesson to be drawn is not simply that both resource and governance matter to civil conflict, but also that we often cannot understand the impact of one without paying careful attention to how it interacts with the other. Our contributors have identified and examined a number of mechanisms that affect the interplay between governance structures and resources. Below, we describe these findings in terms of the conceptual apparatus developed in Chapter 1, and suggest some questions that deserve further examination in future research.
