All conflict is local: Modeling sub-national variation in civil conflict risk

Conflict Management and Peace Science

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-40

  Rustad, Siri Camilla Aas ^a,b   Buhaug, Halvard ^a   Falch, Åshild ^a   Gates, Scott ^a,b  

^a PRIO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Asia; civil war; disaggregation; forecasting; Geographic Information System; GIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952286662     PISSN: 07388942     EISSN: 15499219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0738894210388122     Document Type: Article

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