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#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence

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Avoiding Civil War

Lebanon had tried for a long time to preserve the interests of minority groups. And they would guarantee you know this ethnic religious group gets the presidency and this ethnicreligious group gets the prime ministership. A lot of a lot of countries will apportion seats in Parliament to give a group that's temporarily powerful. So there's a lot of ingenuity and it doesn't always work right which actually helps avoid civil war.

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