Modeling civil violence: an agent-based computational approach.
This article presents an agent-based computational model of civil violence. Two variants of the civil violence model are presented. In the first a central authority seeks to suppress decentralized rebellion. In the second a central authority seeks to suppress communal violence between two warring ethnic groups.
Epstein
Joshua M
JM
Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA. jepstein@brookings.edu
D002960:Civil Disorders; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012919:Social Behavior; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*