Conflict in Complex Socio-Natural Systems: Using Agent-Based Modeling to Understand the Behavioral Roots of Social Unrest within the Mandera Triangle

This work is supported by the Center for Social Complexity of George Mason University and by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under a Multi-disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant no. N00014-08-1-0921.

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