Climate change threatens core dimensions of human security, including economic
prosperity, food availability, and societal stability. In recent years, war-torn regions such as …

Since the late 1990s, remotely sensed night-time lights (NTL) satellite imagery has been
shown to correlate with socioeconomic parameters including urbanization, economic …

Background The current outbreak of Ebola in eastern DR Congo, beginning in 2018,
emerged in a complex and violent political and security environment. Community-level …

Conventional wisdom portrays war zones as chaotic and anarchic. In reality, however, they
are often orderly. This work introduces a new phenomenon in the study of civil war: wartime …

In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and
behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to …

Can digital information and communication technology foster mass political mobilization?
We use a novel georeferenced data set for the entire African continent between 1998 and …

We combine georeferenced data on mining extraction of 14 minerals with information on
conflict events at spatial resolution of 0.5 o× 0.5 o for all of Africa between 1997 and 2010 …

We investigate whether mining affects local corruption in Africa. Several cross‐country
analyses report that natural resources have adverse effects on political institutions by …

This paper studies how conflict affects household resilience capacity and food security,
drawing on panel data collected from households in Palestine before and after the 2014 …

We study the effect of individual exposure to civil conflict on trust and preferences for market
participation. We conducted behavioral experiments and surveys among 426 randomly …