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Title Computational conflict research / Emanuel Deutschmann, Jan Lorenz, Luis G. Nardin, Davide Natalini, Adalbert F.X. Wilhelm, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 264 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Computational social sciences, 2509-9574
Computational social sciences, 2509-9574
Contents Chapter1: Advancing Conflict Research through Computational Approaches -- PARTI: Data and Methods in Computational Conflict Research -- Chapter2: Advances in Data on Conflict and Dissent -- Chapter3: Text as Data for Conflict Research: A Literature Survey -- Chapter4: Interdependencies in Conflict Dynamics: Analyzing Endogenous Patterns in Conflict Event Data Using Relational Event Models -- PARTII: Computational Research on Non-violent Conflict -- Chapter5: Migration Policy Framing in Political Discourse: Evidence from Canada and the US -- Chapter6: The Role of Network Structure and Initial Group Norm Distribution in Norm Conflict -- Chapter7: On the Fate of Protests: Dynamics of Activation and Topic Selection Online and In the Streets -- PartIII: Computational Research on Violent Conflict -- Chapter8: Do Non-State Armed Groups influence each other in attack timing and frequency? Generating, analyzing, and comparing empirical data and simulation -- Chapter9: On the Beaten Path: Violence against Civilians and Simulated Conflict along Road Networks -- Chapter10: Analysis of Conflict Diffusion over Continuous Space, -- Chapter11: Rebel Group Protection Rackets: Simulating the Effects of Economic Support on Civil War Violence
Summary This open access book brings together a set of original studies that use cutting-edge computational methods to investigate conflict at various geographic scales and degrees of intensity and violence. Methodologically, this book covers a variety of computational approaches from text mining and machine learning to agent-based modelling and social network analysis. Empirical cases range from migration policy framing in North America and street protests in Iran to violence against civilians in Congo and food riots world-wide. Supplementary materials in the book include a comprehensive list of the datasets on conflict and dissent, as well as resources to online repositories where the annotated code and data of individual chapters can be found and where (agent-based) models can be re-produced and altered. These materials are a valuable resource for those wishing to retrace and learn from the analyses described in this volume and adapt and apply them to their own research interests. By bringing together novel research through an international team of scholars from a range of disciplines, Computational Conflict Research pioneers and maps this emerging field. The book will appeal to students, scholars, and anyone interested in the prospects of using computational social sciences to advance our understanding of conflict dynamics.-- Provided by publisher
Notes Includes index
English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 13, 2019)
Subject Violence -- Data processing -- Research
Social conflict -- Data processing -- Research
Terrorism.
Data mining.
Social sciences -- Data processing.
Peace.
Political violence.
Terrorism
Data Mining
terrorism.
Peace studies & conflict resolution.
Society & social sciences.
Terrorism, armed struggle.
Data mining.
Data mining
Peace
Political violence
Social sciences -- Data processing
Terrorism
Form Electronic book
Author Deutschmann, Emanuel, editor
Lorenz, Jan, 1976- editor.
Nardin, Luis Gustavo, editor
Natalini, Davide, editor
Wilhelm, Adalbert F. X., editor
ISBN 9783030293338
3030293335