Crowdseeding in Eastern Congo: Using Cell Phones to Collect Conflict Events Data in Real Time

Journal of Conflict Resolution

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 748-781

  Van der Windt, Peter ^a   Humphreys, Macartan ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

conflict; conflict management; foreign aid; humanitarian intervention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966711911     PISSN: 00220027     EISSN: 15528766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022002714553104     Document Type: Article

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