Global Civil Unrest: Contagion, Self-Organization, and Prediction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Braha, Dan ^a,b,c  

^a NEW ENGLAND COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BIOMEDICINE; CIVIL DISORDER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARTHQUAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CIVIL UNREST; HUMAN; MASS COMMUNICATION; PHYSICAL MEDICINE; PROCESS MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INSTABILITY; SOCIAL NETWORK; TREND STUDY;

AFRICA; AGGRESSION; ALGORITHMS; AMERICAS; ASIA; CIVIL DISORDERS; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84868277534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048596     Document Type: Article

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