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Dynamic modeling of ethnic conflicts
Dražen Penzar,Armano Srbljinović +1 more
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In this article, the authors present two formal models of ethnic conflicts: an agent-based model of ethnic mobilization and a system-dynamics model of societal conflicts, based on recent social-science theories of preconditions, causes, and dynamics of ethnic violence and on experience in the former Yugoslavia in the last two decades.About:
This article is published in International Transactions in Operational Research.The article was published on 2004-01-01. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ethnic violence & Ethnic group.read more
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An agent-based model of urban insurgence: Effect of gathering sites and Koopman mode analysis.
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The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration
TL;DR: The latest volume in the series of Princeton Studies in Complexity is Robert Axelrod's sequel to his influential book, The Evolution of Cooperation as discussed by the authors, which consists of an introduction and seven chapters extending and developing the earlier research in various directions as well as appendices containing useful technical information for researchers in the fields of complexity and agent-based modeling.
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The Repression of Dissent A Substitution Model of Government Coercion
TL;DR: In this paper, a substitution model of states' responses to dissident behavior and a statistical test of some sequential hypotheses that are derived from the model is presented, motivated by an interest in understanding the sequential response of states to dissidents activity.
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Emergent actors in world politics : how states and nations develop and dissolve
TL;DR: Cedarman as mentioned in this paper argues that the dominant focus on cohesive nation-states as the only actors of world politics obscures crucial differences between the state and the nation; traditional theory usually treats these units as fixed.
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Anticipating the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Early Warning Approach to Conflict and Instability Analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, a fuzzy analysis of statistical evidence (FASE) was used to identify relevant country macrostructural factors that can contribute to different kinds and levels of intensity of conflict and country instabilities.
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Modelling ethnic and national relations
TL;DR: The nature of ethnic and national collectivities is to be explained in the same terms as the explanation of other social collectivities as discussed by the authors, where individuals will in some circumstances feel bound to align themselves with co-ethnics, but in other circumstances their alignment will be more influenced by considerations of money or status.