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This paper examines the link between absolute and relative poverty and the location of civil war events. Conflict data from the ACLED dataset is linked with geographically referenced socioeconomic data from the Liberian Demographic and Health Survey conducted in 1986. The authors test how both absolute and relative welfare levels affect the presence and number of conflict events in Liberia during the civil war in 1989–2002. The authors find by analyzing the negative binomial regression results that civil war events predominantly happen in richer provinces.