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Tag Archives: South Africa

The Risk of Conflict-Related Mortality: How to Calculate Risk and Understanding Relative Risk Across Countries  

By Roudabeh Kishi20 April 2015
A unit of relative risk is necessary in order to be able to draw comparisons…
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Rape as a Weapon of Political Violence, Part 1: Trends Across Africa

By Roudabeh Kishi18 February 2015
Sexual violence as a weapon of political conflict is a serious, present-day atrocity affecting millions…
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Service-delivery demonstrations, political voice and elections in South Africa

By Daniel Wigmore-Shepherd21 January 2015
South Africa was the seventh most active country in the ACLED dataset in 2014, in…
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Resource-Related Conflict in Africa

By Roudabeh Kishi19 November 2014
Natural resource extraction by mining (including oil, diamonds, copper, and cobalt) has tremendous positive economic…
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Anti-Government Protests and Regime Breakdown: Conflict Dynamics in Transitional States

By James Moody12 November 2014
“Authoritarian regimes…breakdown in systematically different ways, and they also affect post-transition outcomes” Geddes (1999: 6)…
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Protest, spectacle and South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters

By Daniel Wigmore-Shepherd15 October 2014
The May 2014 South African general election proved that the ruling African National Congress (ANC)…
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Service Delivery Riots and Politics in South Africa

By Daniel Wigmore-Shepherd10 September 2014
Recently the South African Police Service (SAPS) called on Parliament to support a 3.3 billion…
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The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project.

ACLED is the highest quality and most widely used real-time data and analysis source on political violence and protest around the world. Practitioners, researchers, journalists, and governments depend on ACLED for the latest reliable information on current conflict and disorder patterns.

ACLED is a registered non-profit organization with 501(c)(3) status in the United States.

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