| This dissertation examines the relationship between war type and the short- and long-term effects on population health using a synthesized theory of greed versus grievance conflict motivation, outcomes of territorial conflict, and the general effects of war on population health. The work explores the differences in population health indicators in criminal/greed-motivated conflicts, ethnolinguistic/grievance-motivated conflicts without a territorial component, and ethnolinguistic/grievance-motivated conflicts with a territorial component. This newly developed theory was tested using quantitative panel data analysis of 126 non-OECD countries between 1991 and 2008, exploring the relationship between a number of economic, political, and conflict variables on population health variables both in the present and after a lag of one, two, and five years. The analysis finds that (1) war in general has an immediate and lasting ill effect on population health indicators; (2) criminal, ethnolinguistic, and territorial wars have similar effects on population health indicators in the present; (3) the effects of criminal conflict and ethnolinguistic conflict without a territorial component fade over time; (4) the effects of ethnolinguistic conflict with a territorial conflict continue to grow over time. These findings are investigated qualitatively with two short case studies of Colombia, a criminal conflict, and Sri Lanka, an ethnolinguistic conflict with territorial components. |
