Diffusion patterns of violence in civil wars

Political Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 143-152

  Schutte, Sebastian ^a   Weidmann, Nils B ^b,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OSLO PRIO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Civil war; Conflict diffusion; Conflict event data; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

CIVIL WAR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; VIOLENCE;

EID: 79956144029     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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