Gomes, JosephMasson, LaurentLaurentMasson2025-05-142025-05-142025-05-142022https://hdl.handle.net/2078.2/29386This paper examines empirically the impact of ethnolinguistic divisions on civil conflicts through the prism of local interactions. Adding the local-global complementarity from Desmet et al. (2020) to Esteban et al. (2012) framework on ethnic divisions, I measure how local interactions play a role in the intensity of conflict. A spatial resolution of 5 km by 5 km is used to capture the local component and I look attentively at the effects of ethnic polarization, fractionalization, and the local-global complementarity on conflict. I provide empirical evidence that an increase in local interactions with other groups increases the overall antagonism felt towards those groups in the society at large.civil conflictslinguistic diversitylocal contactethnic grouptext::thesis::master thesisthesis:35350