Explaining Urban Social Disorder and Violence: An Empirical Study of Event Data from Asian and Sub-Saharan African Cities

International Interactions

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 512-528

  Urdal, Henrik ^a,b   Hoelscher, Kristian ^a,c  

^a PRIO   (Norway)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Asia; cities; disorder; nonviolent; Sub Saharan Africa; urban; violence; youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865214299     PISSN: 03050629     EISSN: 15477444     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2012.697427     Document Type: Article

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