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MASON HerderLand: Origins of Conflict in East Africa

Date

2010-11

Authors

Kennedy, W.G.
Hailegiorgis, A.B.
Rouleau, M.
Bassett, J.K.
Coletti, M.
Balan, G.C.
Gulden, T.
Cioffi-Revilla, C.

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Abstract

HerderLand is an agent-based model of the people and environment in the Mandera Triangle area of Eastern Africa developed to address the causes of conflict in the area. With it we have conducted three sets of experiments varying the major environmental parameters we believed would affect conflict in the region.

Description

One page summary of presentation.

Keywords

Africa, East, Agent-based model, Conflict

Citation

Kennedy, W.G., Hailegiorgis, A.B., Rouleau, M., Bassett, J.K., Coletti, M., Balan, G.C., Gulden, T., and Cioffi-Revilla, C. (2010) MASON HerderLand: Modeling the Origins of Conflict in East Africa. Proceedings of the First Annual Conference of the Computational Social Science Society, Tempe, AZ, (5-6 November 2010).