Abstract
The aim of this paper is to identify how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict.
Conflict and violence affect the welfare characteristics and choices of individuals and households in conflict areas.
There are many socio-economic consequences of armed conflict. The armed conflict has a direct effect on health
and economy of a household. However, the disturbing consequence of armed conflict can also be seen in the degree
of social participation. The conflict hit individual or household find it difficult to be in consonance with the aspects
of its society, may it be the participation in social functions or the behaviour towards the society. Conflict hit
individual or/and family live in some kind of self styled social isolation by not taking part in the various social and
community roles, which was otherwise actively been participated into, before being the victim of conflict. The paper
will confine its domain to the impact of armed conflict on three inter-related variables of health, economy and social
participation. The paper will also analyze the decline of economic status due to conflict as the causal factor for
lesser social participation of these conflict hit individuals and families. Overall, this paper is aimed to explore the
relation between the variables of armed conflict, health, economic status and social participation. The relation
seems of the type, that the armed conflict affects the health of an individual (loss of human capital) which in turn
alters the economic status and hence leads to effect social participation. However, the relation is not generalistic as
the armed conflict can affect any of the above variables directly without altering the others. It is pertinent to
mention here that the data for the current paper has been collected only from those households who happen to be
direct victims of conflict. The victimization was in the form of death of a family member, disappearance of a family
member or physical or psychological disease of a family member.