The consequences of successful public health interventions for social violence and conflict are largely unknown. This … violent events in African countries and sub-national regions. The effect pertains to social violence and unrest, not civil war …

-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by … a fighting group contributes to the escalation from local to global violence. Finally, we analyze the impact of …

-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by … a fighting group contributes to the escalation from local to global violence. Finally, we analyze the impact of …

Political violence is a worldwide problem that has been on the rise over the past decade. The international dimension … substitute visible forms of unrest (riots) for more covert operations on soft targets (civilian-targeted violence). This pattern … international scrutiny would help safeguard public demonstrations of dissent and reduce violence against civilians. …

The conflict in Northern Ireland was an example of "complex warfare" with both insurgency and sectarian violence. We … present a unified model that helps to identify these two forms of conflict from the spatial distribution of violence. The … model predicts that tectonic boundaries between residential areas of opposed groups drive sectarian violence. Violence …