Explaining conflict violence in terms of conflict actor dynamics.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 Dec 2023
01 Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
04
08
2023
accepted:
23
11
2023
medline:
4
12
2023
pubmed:
2
12
2023
entrez:
1
12
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
We study the severity of conflict-related violence in Colombia at an unprecedented granular scale in space and across time. Splitting the data into different geographical regions and different historically-relevant periods, we uncover variations in the patterns of conflict severity which we then explain in terms of local conflict actors' different collective behaviors and/or conditions using a simple mathematical model of conflict actors' grouping dynamics (coalescence and fragmentation). Specifically, variations in the approximate scaling values of the distributions of event lethalities can be explained by the changing strength ratio of the local conflict actors for distinct conflict eras and organizational regions. In this way, our findings open the door to a new granular spectroscopy of human conflicts in terms of local conflict actor strength ratios for any armed conflict.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38040778
doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-48218-x
pii: 10.1038/s41598-023-48218-x
pmc: PMC10692117
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
21187Subventions
Organisme : Minerva Research Initiative in partnership with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
ID : FA9550-22-1-0338
Organisme : Minerva Research Initiative in partnership with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
ID : FA9550-22-1-0338
Organisme : Minerva Research Initiative in partnership with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
ID : FA9550-22-1-0338
Organisme : Arts & Humanities Research Council and the Economic & Social Research Council through the Partnership for Conflict, Crime & Security Research
ID : AH/P005446/1
Organisme : Arts & Humanities Research Council
ID : AH/V011375/1
Organisme : U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research awards
ID : FA9550-20-1-0382
Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s).
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