An Agent-Based Model of Conflict in East Africa and the Effect of Watering Holes

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dc.contributor.authorKennedy, W.G.
dc.contributor.authorHailegiorgis, A.B.
dc.contributor.authorRouleau, M.
dc.contributor.authorBassett, J.K.
dc.contributor.authorColetti, M.
dc.contributor.authorBalan, G.C.
dc.contributor.authorGulden, T.
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-20T14:39:59Z
dc.date.available2014-08-20T14:39:59Z
dc.date.issued2010-03
dc.description.abstractAn agent-based model conflict between herdsmen in east Africa using the MASON agent-based simulation environment is presented. Herders struggle to keep their herds fed and watered in a GIS-based, spatially diverse environment with data-driven seasonal cycles. The model produces realistic carrying capacity dynamics and basically plausible conflict dynamics. With the rather basic set of behaviors, herders come into conflict over limited resources and one clan is eventually eliminated. We find that greater environmental scarcity leads to faster domination by a single group. At the same time, we note that there is tremendous variability from run to run in the rate and timing of the transition from a conflict-prone, multi-clan environment to hegemony of a single group.
dc.description.sponsorshipCenter for Social Complexity at George Mason University and by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant no. N00014-08-1-0921.
dc.identifier.citationKennedy, W.G., Hailegiorgis, A.B., Rouleau, M., Bassett, J.K., Coletti, M., Balan, G.C., and Gulden, T. (2010) An Agent-Based Model of Conflict in East Africa and the Effect of Watering Holes, Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, Charleston, SC. 21 - 24 March 2010, pp 274-281.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/8743
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherConference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
dc.subjectAgent-based model
dc.subjectConflict modeling
dc.subjectComputer simulation
dc.titleAn Agent-Based Model of Conflict in East Africa and the Effect of Watering Holes
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