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Do giant oil field discoveries fuel internal armed conflicts? / Yu-Hsiang Lei &#38;  Guy Michaels, VoxEU.org, 1/12/2011http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/7368Do natural resource windfalls, such as those arising from the discovery of giant oil fields, increase the risk of internal armed conflict? This column argues that giant oil field discoveries, which are largely down to chance, significantly increase the incidence of conflict. This is especially so in countries with recent histories of political violence, where locals may have little to gain from such discoveries...