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5 papers
Changing Geographies of Violence in North and West Africa
Steven M. Radil, Olivier J. Walther, Mohammed Sanda
This paper analyses spatial trends in armed conflicts in North and West Africa. It shows that all types of violence saw a significant increase in 2025. However, these violent incid…
Cities and political violence in West Africa
Steven M. Radil, Olivier J. Walther
This paper examines how political violence in West Africa is distributed between urban agglomerations and their surrounding areas using spatially disaggregated conflict and populat…
Mapping the long-term trajectories of political violence in Africa
Steven M. Radil, Nick Dorward, Olivier Walther +1
Existing models of political violence often emphasize discrete transitions, when conflicts emerge, escalate, or subside, without considering the longer trajectories of violence tha…
Introducing the Spatial Conflict Dynamics indicator of political violence
Olivier J. Walther, Steven M. Radil, David Russell +1
Modern armed conflicts have a tendency to cluster together and spread geographically. However, the geography of most conflicts remains under-studied. To fill this gap, this article…
Social networks and geography: a review of the literature and its implications
Steven M. Radil, Olivier J. Walther
The spatial metaphor of the network along with its accompanying abstractions, such as flow, movement, and connectivity, have been central themes throughout the relational turn in h…