3 papers
physics.soc-ph2026
Pulses, waves, and cascades in collective migration dynamics
Niraj Kushwaha, Woi Sok Oh, Edward D. Lee
Decisions to migrate depend on others' decisions. Dependence can produce nontrivial dynamics. We propose a minimal migration model that accounts for social influence alongside indi…
physics.soc-ph2025
Common indicators hurt armed conflict prediction
Niraj Kushwaha, Woi Sok Oh, Shlok Shah +1
Are big conflicts different from small or medium size conflicts? To answer this question, we leverage fine-grained conflict data, which we map to climate, geography, infrastructure…
physics.soc-ph2022
Discovering the mesoscale for chains of conflict
Niraj Kushwaha, Edward D. Lee
Conflicts, like many social processes, are related events that span multiple scales in time, from the instantaneous to multi-year developments, and in space, from one neighborhood…