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Causes are more than just interesting and independent variables.
They give us some ability to predict conflict. They also give us an idea of what the postconflict environment will resemble. Postconflict societies also have problems stemming from the nature of the conflict itself. The basis of the Bank's Conflict Research Group work is empirical. The resulting model, to be outlined here, has been successful in predicting conflict.