External intelligence assistance and the recipient government’s violence against civilians

Peacekeeping & Violence against Civilians

Governments, Civilians, and the Evolution of Insurgency

This paper models the early dynamics of insurgency using an agent-based computer simulation of civilians, insurgents, and soldiers. In the simulation, insurgents choose to attack government forces, which then strike back. Such government counterattacks may result in the capture or killing of insurgents, may make nearby civilians afraid to become insurgents, but may also increase the anger of su...

Cain's Choice: Causes of One-sided Violence against Civilians

Conflict researchers are divided on what explains the massive victimisation and murdering of civilians and unarmed combatants, but largely agree that many of these acts are intentional and that the main perpetrators rely on them for economic or political gain. The terror strategies against civilians, which the scholarly literature has recently dubbed one-sided violence, take for instance the fo...

Strategic Protection, Pro-Government Interventions, and Violence against Civilians in Civil Wars

Communication and Tracking Ontology Development for Civilians Earthquake Disaster Assistance

One of the most important components of recovery and speedy response during and immediately after an earthquake disaster is a communication and tracking which possibly capable of discovering affected peoples and connects them with their families, friends, and communities with first responders and/or to support computational systems. With the capabilities of current mobile technologies, we belie...