@misc{10481/97620,
year = {2019},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/97620},
abstract = {Mortality due to violent conflicts or political events (whether
interstate, civil wars or conflicts between antagonistic groups,
etc.) in countries of Africa is an issue of great concern due to the
high number of victims and constant violation of human rights,
which occurs daily. The participation of different types of actors,
among them rebels, ethnic groups and regular troops, in these
violent processes has been widely studied in numerous theoretical
works based on a process of perception and intuition. This paper
uses spatial modelling methods to empirically examine how these
different groups of actors explain the mortality of violent political
events in African countries in the period 2014–2015. The main
contributions of this work consist in identifying the actors that
have the greatest impact on mortality in Africa, as well as the
spatial contagion effect caused by them. The results can be of use
to policymakers for the design and implementation of geopolitical
strategies based on more efficient empirical data with a view to
reducing the mortality these actors cause in violent political
events.},
organization = {Banco Santander [CEMIX-6/16]},
publisher = {Taylor and Francis},
title = {The spatial effects of violent political events on mortality in countries of Africa},
doi = {10.1080/03736245.2019.1612770},
author = {Chica Olmo, Jorge M. and Cano Guervos, Rafael A. and Marrero Rocha, Inmaculada C.},
}