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describe the argument of greed versus grievance, which tries to understand the motivations of combatants in civil warfare. As I understood it, those who support the greed model believe that combatants perform a cost benefit analysis and take up arms when fighting will better their situations and those who support the grievance model say that combatants are motivated by religious, ethnic, identity and social class grievances. Collier and Hoeffler concluded that the grievance-based explanations of civil
since WWII to determine the causes and conditions that bring about their onset. The most common term surrounding civil war is the phrase “greed versus grievance”. Coined by Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler, the term contrasts motivations for rebellion (2004). Together, they developed a rational choice model of greed-rebellion and contrasts that with a simple grievance model. More clearly stated, civil wars based on identity or civil war motivated by economics. The key question is this: is civil war caused
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