Predicting Local Violence: Evidence from a Panel Survey in Liberia
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Predicting Local Violence: Evidence from a Panel Survey in Liberia
Riots, murders, lynchings and other forms of local violence are costly to security forces and society at large. Identifying risk factors and forecasting where local violence is most likely to occur should help allocate scarce peacekeeping and policing resources. Most forecasting exercises of this kind rely on structural or event data, but these have many limitations in the poorest and most war-...
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عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2856479