Scaling Features of Violent Social Conflicts

We discuss two simple quantitative models for: (1) Richardson's law for the distribution of the size of wars; (2) The distribution of the size of severe terrorist attacks. In both cases the models predict power law exponents that are consistent with the empirical data.

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Main Author: Wiegel, Frederik W
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
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Summary:We discuss two simple quantitative models for: (1) Richardson's law for the distribution of the size of wars; (2) The distribution of the size of severe terrorist attacks. In both cases the models predict power law exponents that are consistent with the empirical data.
ISSN:0094-243X
DOI:10.1063/1.2956794