Common ecology quantifies human insurgency (Nature 462, 911–914)

Peer-reviewed Nature paper demonstrating that the severity distribution of insurgent attacks across nine modern conflicts (including Sri Lanka) follows a common power law with exponent α ≈ 2.5, despite enormous differences in geography, ideology and combatants. This is the empirical foundation for treating cross-community ethno-religious flashpoint sequences — Aluthgama 2014 → Digana 2018 → Easter 2019 → forced cremation 2020–22 → vihara archaeology disputes — as a SINGLE structural process generating a heavy-tailed event distribution, not as isolated incidents. Anchor for the RIF math model.