During the previous decade, there has been an increased focus on the role of food security
in processes of armed conflict, both in the academic and policy communities. While the …

Background Attacks on health care in armed conflict, including those on health workers,
facilities, patients and transports, represent serious violations of human rights and …

The study of security implications of climate change has developed rapidly from a nascent
area of academic inquiry into an important and thriving research field that traverses …

This article presents the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset (UCDP GED). The UCDP GED
is an event dataset that disaggregates three types of organized violence (state-based …

We examine whether shared collective experiences help build a national identity, by looking
at the impact of national football teams' victories in sub-Saharan Africa. We find that …

Can digital information and communication technology foster mass political mobilization?
We use a novel georeferenced data set for the entire African continent between 1998 and …

This paper documents strong but differentiated links between climate and urbanization in
large panels of districts and cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, which has dried substantially in the …

Can food prices cause social unrest? Throughout history, riots have frequently broken out,
ostensibly as a consequence of high food prices. Using monthly data at the international …

Recent data collections about political violence are frequently based on media reports,
which can lead to reporting bias. This is an issue in particular for the emergent literature on …

Despite the prevalence of nonviolent uprisings in recent history, no existing scholarship has
produced a generalized explanation of when and where such uprisings are most likely to …