3 papers
econ.GN2026
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…
cs.SI2026
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…
cs.SI2018
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…