roughout this work, the greed versus grievance framework will be stressed as the majority of conflict cases in the Global South can be reflected in this theory in the shape of civil wars; however, there exist major armed conflicts around the contemporary Global South where the descriptive conditions could contradict the model by Collier (2001).

This essay will focus in its first section in understanding what the framework is on its basis and how interacts between the two concepts, followed by a brief analysis of two study cases in the Global South, showing how international intervention and national peace processes are taking the framework as a useful tool, demonstrating that the application of complementary methods to address conflicts in the Global South are needed to positively address conflicts, concluding this paper with a direct answer to the question.

Section 1. The framework: Matter of perspectives

In order to start analysing how the greed-grievance framework can be useful in the analysis of conflicts in countries in the Global South, it is important to summarize some of the key discourses that underpin the framework.

As suggested by Eleanor O´Gorman (2011), societies’ grievances and their responses to them changed after the Cold War, allowing societies to adopt new ‘conflict attitudes’. These attitudes led policymakers and theorists to look towards new perspectives of study and political agendas. The most relevant contribution to the topic is indeed the ‘greed theory’ of Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler. In their paper, Greed and Grievance in Civil Wars (2002), greed trumps grievance as a motivator of conflict in decolonised countries- most of them in the Global South. The war economies literature discourse discusses reshaped/contemporary complexities of conflict; “mapping and brings into analysis new actors (arm dealers, border guards, armed groups), organisations (private small and large companies, criminal organisations), and levels of operation (cross-border, sub-regional, global, South-South, North-South)” (O´Gorman, 2011, page 37). However, later in their later work under the same name (2004), they started treating the justice-seeking and the loot-seeking separately; “Here we propose a more general theory which juxtaposes the opportunities for rebellion against t