Global Pattern Formation and Ethnic/Cultural Violence (Science 317, 1540–1544)

May Lim, Richard Metzler, Yaneer Bar-Yam · Science

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Peer-reviewed Science paper showing that the geographic boundaries between distinct ethno-religious groups predict the location of inter-group violence — using a wavelet-decomposition method validated on former Yugoslavia and India. The model predicts that violence concentrates at the EDGES of partial-mixing regions where neither group is dominant nor cleanly separated. Directly applicable to Sri Lanka's Aluthgama (mixed coastal Muslim/Sinhala area), Digana (mixed Kandyan Sinhala/Muslim hill area) and Eastern Province (mixed Tamil/Muslim/Sinhala) flashpoint geography. Second physics-of-conflict anchor for the RIF math model.

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