Markets for Peace? Narcotics and Post-Conflict Stability: The Case of Peru

• In Event: Peace Processes

Brief Overview

This study uses novel data and applies design-based causal inference to estimate the effect of narcotics on violence in a post-conflict context. I posit that narcotics do not cause recurrence yet violence persists as a function of threat perception.

Author

• Laura Saavedra-Lux, University of Essex