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Beyond Greed and Grievance: Feasibility and Civil War Paul Collier, CSAE, University of Oxford Anke Hoeffler, CSAE, University of Oxford Dominic Rohner, Faculty of Economics, Universty of Cambridge WPS/2006-10 Download the Paper (PDF format) - August 7, 2006 Tell a colleague about it. Printing Tips: Select 'print as image' in the Acrobat print dialog if you have trouble printing. ABSTRACT: A key distinction among theories of civil war is between those that are built upon motivation and those that are built upon feasibility. We analyze a comprehensive global sample of civil wars for the period 1965-2004 and subject the results to a range of robustness tests. The data constitute a substantial advance on previous work. We find that variables that are close proxies for feasibility have powerful consequences for the risk of a civil war. Our results substantiate the ’feasibility hypothesis’ that where civil war is feasible it will occur without reference to motivation. SUGGESTED CITATION: Paul Collier, Anke Hoeffler, and Dominic Rohner, "Beyond Greed and Grievance: Feasibility and Civil War" (August 7, 2006). The Centre for the Study of African Economies Working Paper Series. Working Paper 254. http://www.bepress.com/csae/paper254