Detecting hidden violence: The spatial distribution of excess mortality in Rwanda

Political Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-56

  Verpoorten, Marijke ^a  

^a LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Civil war; Excess mortality; Genocide; Insurgency; Rwanda; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; CIVIL WAR; GENOCIDE; MORTALITY; POLITICAL CONFLICT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFUGEE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VIOLENCE;

RWANDA;

EID: 84855610832     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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