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Introducing the Spatial Conflict Dynamics indicator of political violence [PDF]
Terrorism and Political Violence 2021, 2020 Modern armed conflicts have a tendency to cluster together and spread geographically. However, the geography of most conflicts remains under-studied. To fill this gap, this article presents a new indicator that measures two key geographical properties of subnational political violence: the conflict intensity within a region on the one hand, and the ...
Radil, Steven M. +3 more
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BMJ Global Health, 2023 Background Women and children bear a substantial burden of morbidity and mortality due to armed conflict. Life-saving maternal and child health (MCH) services are low-quality in most conflict-affected regions.
Kun Tang +3 more
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A scaling theory of armed conflict avalanches [PDF]
Phys. Rev. E 102, 042312 (2020), 2020 Armed conflict data display scaling and universal dynamics in both social and physical properties like fatalities and geographic extent. We propose a randomly branching, armed-conflict model that relates multiple properties to one another in a way consistent with data. The model incorporates a fractal lattice on which conflict spreads, uniform dynamics
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Armed conflict and child health [PDF]
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2011 Armed conflict has a major impact on child health throughout the world. One in six children worldwide lives in an area of armed conflict and civilians are more likely to die than soldiers as a result of the conflict. In stark contrast to the effect on children, the international arms trade results in huge profits for the large corporations involved in ...
Rieder, Michael, Choonara, Imti
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Non-Adherence to Human Rights and Humanitarian Laws in the Conduct of Armed Conflict in Yemen
Sriwijaya Law Review, 2022 To protect the properties, lives, and dignity of human persons worldwide, the International Humanitarian Law seeks to uphold and promote Human Rights Law and other international frameworks regulating the rights of civilians and parties to armed conflict.
Mohammed Salem Alqahtani +2 more
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Archeomatica, 2018 In ordinary circumstances managing cultural heritage is not any easy, yet, lately it turned into a much more challenging job. During the last few decades we assisted to an increased number of disasters caused by events of unprecedented frequency and ...
Claudio Cimino
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Discovering the mesoscale for chains of conflict [PDF]
, 2022 Conflicts, like many social processes, are related events that span multiple scales in time, from the instantaneous to multi-year developments, and in space, from one neighborhood to continents. Yet, there is little systematic work on connecting the multiple scales, formal treatment of causality between events, and measures of uncertainty for how ...
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Conflict Prevention, Management, and Resolution: Africa — Regional Strategies for the Prevention of Displacement and Protection of Displaced Persons: The Cases of the OAU, ECOWAS, SADC, and IGAD [PDF]
, 2001 This Article seeks to examine the preparedness of certain African regional actors to protect displaced persons in times of armed conflict, and to prescribe formulas to strengthen the capabilities of such actors.
Levitt, Jeremy
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The Effects of Armed Conflict on Children [PDF]
Pediatrics, 2018 More than 1 in 10 children worldwide are affected by armed conflict. The effects are both direct and indirect and are associated with immediate and long-term harm. The direct effects of conflict include death, physical and psychological trauma, and displacement.
Sherry Shenoda +10 more
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Varying climatic-social-geographical patterns shape the conflict risk at regional and global scales
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 Given that armed conflict has been seriously impeding sustainable development, reducing the frequency and intensity of armed conflicts has become an explicit goal and a common theme of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Mengmeng Hao +9 more
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