Testing the power-law hypothesis of the interconflict interval

Abstract War is an extreme form of collective human behaviour characterized by coordinated violence. We show that this nature of war is substantiated in the temporal patterns of conflict occurrence that obey power law. The focal metric is the interconflict interval (ICI), the interval between the en...

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Main Authors: Hiroshi Okamoto, Iku Yoshimoto, Sota Kato, Budrul Ahsan, Shuji Shinohara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50002-w