Publication

This paper surveys a set of hypotheses forwarded in the conflict literature regarding the relationship between the size and location of population groups. The hypotheses are tested on a new dataset called ACLED that disaggregates internal conflicts into individual events. The analysis covers 14 countries in Central Africa and the authors juxtapose conflict event data with geographically disaggregated data on populations, distance to capitals, borders and road networks. This paper also develops a statistical method to analyze this type of data and confirms several of the hypotheses.