arXiv Open Access 2019

Emergent regularities and scaling in armed conflict data

Edward D. Lee Bryan C. Daniels Christopher R. Myers David C. Krakauer Jessica C. Flack

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Armed conflict exhibits regularities beyond known power law distributions of fatalities and duration over varying culture and geography. We systematically cluster conflict reports from a database of $10^5$ events from Africa spanning 20 years into conflict avalanches. Conflict profiles collapse over a range of scales. Duration, diameter, extent, fatalities, and report totals satisfy mutually consistent scaling relations captured with a model combining geographic spread and local conflict-site growth. The emergence of such social scaling laws hints at principles guiding conflict evolution.

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physics.soc-ph cond-mat.stat-mech nlin.AO q-bio.NC

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Edward D. Lee

Bryan C. Daniels

Christopher R. Myers

David C. Krakauer

Jessica C. Flack

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Lee, E.D., Daniels, B.C., Myers, C.R., Krakauer, D.C., Flack, J.C. (2019). Emergent regularities and scaling in armed conflict data. https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07762

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Tahun Terbit: 2019
Bahasa: en
Sumber Database: arXiv
Akses: Open Access ✓