Parte I. Introducing civil conflict 1. Introduction - Magnus Oberg and Kaare Strom 2. Civil conflict in the contemporary world - Kristine Eck, Bethany Lacina and Magnus Oberg Parte II. Cause and dynamics 3. Insights from studies of the risk of civil war - Bethany Lacina 4. Civil wars and interstate disputes - Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Idean Salehyan 5. Robin Hood or Al Capone? Natural resources and conflict in India's Naxalite insurgency - William Noel Ivey 6. Government restructuring and reallocation of resources in the face of ethno-nationalist insurgency in the basque country (1979-2005) - Enric Martínez-Herrera 7. Political marginalization and economic exclusion in the making of insurgencies in Sudan - Aleksi Ylonen 8. Military intervention, democratization, and post-conflict political stability / Scott Gates and Havard Strand Parte III. Termination and post-conflict stability 9. Enforcing alone: collective action in ethnic conflicts settlement - Theodora-Ismene Gizelis 10. From bullets to ballots: using the people as arbitrators to settles civil wars - Margareta Sollenberg 11. Democracy after war: causes and consequences of the 1948 civil war in Costa Rica - Fernando F. Sánchez 12. Democracies, disengagement, and deals: exploring the effect of different types of mediators in civil conflict / Isak Svensson 13. Rebels on the outside: signatories signaling commitment to durable peace - Desirée Nilson Parte IV. Conclusions 14. Conclusions / Magnus Oberg and Kaare Strom