Introduction
Over the past decade, there have been dozens of quantitative studies dealing with the onset of civil wars. Through the quantitative studies on civil wars, significant determinants have been proven statistically. This has been possible through the separate studies on the duration and onset of civil war as the determinants for these two processes are different. However, the separate studies have often resulted in the difficulty to find the any statistically significant association between the onset and duration of the war. This due to the selection effect, which has continually been inherent in the duration models, which make it ...
