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Alexander Gard-Murray
Researcher at New England Complex Systems Institute
Publications - 18
Citations - 236
Alexander Gard-Murray is an academic researcher from New England Complex Systems Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ethnic violence & Peaceful coexistence. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 15 publications receiving 199 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexander Gard-Murray include University of Oxford & Brown University.
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An exploration of social identity: The geography and politics of news‐sharing communities in twitter
TL;DR: This work tracks user-generated messages that contain links to New York Times online articles and labels users according to the topic of the links they share, their geographic location, and their self-descriptive keywords, to map the social, political, and geographical properties of news-sharing communities on Twitter.
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The Geography of Ethnic Violence
Alex Rutherford,May Lim,Richard Metzler,Dion Harmon,Justin Werfel,Shlomiya Bar-Yam,Alexander Gard-Murray,Andreas Gros,Yaneer Bar-Yam +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the conditions of peace and violence among ethnic groups, testing a theory designed to predict the locations of violence and interventions that can promote peace, were investigated in the former Yugoslavia and India.
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Good fences: the importance of setting boundaries for peaceful coexistence
Alex Rutherford,Dion Harmon,Justin Werfel,Alexander Gard-Murray,Shlomiya Bar-Yam,Andreas Gros,Ramon Xulvi-Brunet,Yaneer Bar-Yam +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the conditions of peace and violence among ethnic groups, testing a theory designed to predict the locations of violence and interventions that can promote peace, are considered, and the analysis supports the hypothesis that violence between groups can be inhibited by physical and political boundaries.
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Local adaptation policy responses to extreme weather events.
TL;DR: The results suggest two main recipes for future-oriented policy adoption in the wake of an extreme weather event, one of which involves Democratic communities with highly focused media attention and the other involves Republican communities that have experienced other uncommon weather events in the recent past.
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Good Fences: The Importance of Setting Boundaries for Peaceful Coexistence
Alex Rutherford,Dion Harmon,Justin Werfel,Shlomiya Bar-Yam,Alexander Gard-Murray,Andreas Gros,Yaneer Bar-Yam +6 more
TL;DR: An analysis of the conditions of peace and violence among ethnic groups in Switzerland shows that peace does not depend on integrated coexistence, but rather on well defined topographical and political boundaries separating groups, allowing for partial autonomy within a single country.