each of these factors was likely due to three pre-existing patterns associated with ethnicity. First, when political power …

results. Drawing on data from the Correlates of War database, we present an empirical analysis of conflict intensity …

political conflict. We reflect on the contributions made by the articles of this special issue to the emerging ICTâ …€“political conflict research agenda, highlighting strengths of these articles, and offering suggestions for moving forward. Elaborate … measurement bias could account for the prominent association between cellular coverage and (reported) conflict, and recommend …

empirical research on the relationship between communication technology and political conflict and violence. There are different … instant transmission of information from conflict regions. The contributions to this special issue can be divided into three …€˜new’ communication technologies, and try to assess their effect on conflict both theoretically and empirically. The third and last …

violent conflict by shifting the unit of analysis to that of distinct ethnic groups. This approach provides two important …

will lead to future conflict. This article addresses whether deviations from normal rainfall patterns affect the propensity … for individuals and groups to engage in disruptive activities such as demonstrations, riots, strikes, communal conflict … definition of conflict that includes, but is not limited to, organized rebellion. Using a new database of over 6,000 instances of …

international tensions, in the extreme even militarized interstate disputes. The most likely scenario is conflict over water … these characteristics. If the neo-malthusian specter of conflict over water is empirically relevant, we should see signs of …

Civil conflict and state failure has often been linked to breakdowns in regime legitimacy. Trust in government is a …

particular, it argues that counter to the water war hypothesis, sharing a river need not necessary lead to conflict over the …

51 African countries for 1970-2007, while accounting for cross-sectional (spatial) dependence and conflict (i.e. internal … our study, regional impacts and terrorism-conflict interactions effects are also distinguished. Moreover, our sample …