Q&A with TED about the new research

by seangourley on December 16, 2009

Equation describing the dynamical composition of an insurgency. Here, n_s is the number of groups with strength s, for any s greater than 1. The different terms describe the processes of group coalescence, and group fragmentation.

Equation describing the dynamical composition of an insurgency.

If you’ve been following the Nature research and you want more detail about the latest work on the ‘Ecology of war’ head across to the TED blog where I’ve done an in depth Q&A with them. In this piece I talk about distributions, modeling, the role that media plays in covering conflict and the history of the quant analysis of conflict. I also go into the specifics of of insurgent dynamics and look at the four major policy implications of our research.

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