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Item Ending civil war in Colombia(2015-05) Popa, Stoica Cristinel; Givens, Terri E., 1964-; Weyland, KurtCivil war is one of the most studied phenomena in political science. Its impact on human lives and economic development makes it one of the most destructive events known to mankind. Yet no scholarly consensus has emerged over what causes a civil war to be brought to a resolution. This master's report, relying on a case study of Colombia, shows that two of the most popular theories for explaining the continuation of civil war, the international context and the availability of drugs or other resources, are inaccurate. Instead, the continuation of civil war depends on the state's capacity to obtain military success against the armed groups and it's capability to guarantee the safety of the demobilized rebels. This report uses Weber’s concept of state capacity as the monopoly over the use of legitimate violence.Item Veto players and dispute settlement(2012-08) Popal, Aziz; Rider, Toby J.; Patterson, Dennis; Lektzian, DavidThis thesis explains why some dyads succeed in reaching a negotiated settlement to their dispute than others. The main argument in this thesis is that the number of veto players directly affects the likelihood of the dyads reaching a negotiated settlement. first, two contradicting arguments (positive and negative effects theories) are presented in this thesis regarding the effects of domestic veto players on the negotiated settlements of dispute and later on the two hypotheses derived from both of the comparative arguments are tested in the statistical model and results are reported. After the statistical tests of both the arguments, I find support for the positive effects theory indicating that dyads with higher number of veto players are more likely to reach a negotiated settlement than otherwise. The positive effect of veto players is a valuable finding which contradicts the traditional view held by the existing literature about their negative effects on negotiations. The theory is tested in a logit model with the data from the MID dataset ranging from 1816 till 2001. There are 2670 dyadic disputes in the dataset compiled for this study.