102 citations · 182 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for
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Explaining conflict violence in terms of conflict actor dynamics
Katerina Tkacova, Annette Idler, Neil Johnson +1
We study the severity of conflict-related violence in Colombia at an unprecedented granular scale in space and across time. Splitting the data into different geographical regions a…
Toward a Unified Understanding of Casualty Distributions in Human Conflict
Michael Spagat, Stijn van Weezel, Minzhang Zheng +1
We are able to unify various disparate claims and results in the literature, that stand in the way of a unified description and understanding of human conflict. First, we provide a…
Financial black swans driven by ultrafast machine ecology
Neil Johnson, Guannan Zhao, Eric Hunsader +4
Society's drive toward ever faster socio-technical systems, means that there is an urgent need to understand the threat from 'black swan' extreme events that might emerge. On 6 May…
Escalation, timing and severity of insurgent and terrorist events: Toward a unified theory of future threats
Neil F. Johnson
I present a unified discussion of several recently published results concerning the escalation, timing and severity of violent events in human conflicts and global terrorism, and s…
Dynamic Red Queen explains patterns in fatal insurgent attacks
Neil Johnson, Spencer Carran, Joel Botner +5
The Red Queen's notion "It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place" has been applied within evolutionary biology, politics and economics. We find that a general…
Universal patterns underlying ongoing wars and terrorism
Neil F. Johnson, Mike Spagat, Jorge A. Restrepo +5
We report a remarkable universality in the patterns of violence arising in three high-profile ongoing wars, and in global terrorism. Our results suggest that these quite different…