A complex network analysis of ethnic conflicts and human rights violations

Abstract News reports in media contain records of a wide range of socio-economic and political events in time. Using a publicly available, large digital database of news records, and aggregating them over time, we study the network of ethnic conflicts and human rights violations. Complex network ana...

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Autores principales:	Kiran Sharma, Gunjan Sehgal, Bindu Gupta, Geetika Sharma, Arnab Chatterjee, Anirban Chakraborti, Gautam Shroff
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2017
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d6013f3d9297444bb20f764e534e30882021-12-02T12:32:53ZA complex network analysis of ethnic conflicts and human rights violations10.1038/s41598-017-09101-82045-2322https://doaj.org/article/d6013f3d9297444bb20f764e534e30882017-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09101-8https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract News reports in media contain records of a wide range of socio-economic and political events in time. Using a publicly available, large digital database of news records, and aggregating them over time, we study the network of ethnic conflicts and human rights violations. Complex network analyses of the events and the involved actors provide important insights on the engaging actors, groups, establishments and sometimes nations, pointing at their long range effect over space and time. We find power law decays in distributions of actor mentions, co-actor mentions and degrees and dominance of influential actors and groups. Most influential actors or groups form a giant connected component which grows in time, and is expected to encompass all actors globally in the long run. We demonstrate how targeted removal of actors may help stop spreading unruly events. We study the cause-effect relation between types of events, and our quantitative analysis confirm that ethnic conflicts lead to human rights violations, while it does not support the converse.Kiran SharmaGunjan SehgalBindu GuptaGeetika SharmaArnab ChatterjeeAnirban ChakrabortiGautam ShroffNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2017)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Kiran Sharma Gunjan Sehgal Bindu Gupta Geetika Sharma Arnab Chatterjee Anirban Chakraborti Gautam Shroff A complex network analysis of ethnic conflicts and human rights violations
description	Abstract News reports in media contain records of a wide range of socio-economic and political events in time. Using a publicly available, large digital database of news records, and aggregating them over time, we study the network of ethnic conflicts and human rights violations. Complex network analyses of the events and the involved actors provide important insights on the engaging actors, groups, establishments and sometimes nations, pointing at their long range effect over space and time. We find power law decays in distributions of actor mentions, co-actor mentions and degrees and dominance of influential actors and groups. Most influential actors or groups form a giant connected component which grows in time, and is expected to encompass all actors globally in the long run. We demonstrate how targeted removal of actors may help stop spreading unruly events. We study the cause-effect relation between types of events, and our quantitative analysis confirm that ethnic conflicts lead to human rights violations, while it does not support the converse.
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author	Kiran Sharma Gunjan Sehgal Bindu Gupta Geetika Sharma Arnab Chatterjee Anirban Chakraborti Gautam Shroff
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title	A complex network analysis of ethnic conflicts and human rights violations
title_short	A complex network analysis of ethnic conflicts and human rights violations
title_full	A complex network analysis of ethnic conflicts and human rights violations
title_fullStr	A complex network analysis of ethnic conflicts and human rights violations
title_full_unstemmed	A complex network analysis of ethnic conflicts and human rights violations
title_sort	complex network analysis of ethnic conflicts and human rights violations
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A complex network analysis of ethnic conflicts and human rights violations

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