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Dic 8

200 most influential Twitter users during the riots - Datablog The Guardian

The Guardian has obtained a database of more than 2.5m twitter messages related to the riots.

These messages - unique records of what happened during the August riots, as they happened - have been used in a range of analyses, including how rumours spread and were eventually debunked…

Dic 7

Political Ecuador: Considering the Tijuana-San Diego border as a point of departure, the Political Equator traces an imaginary line along the US–Mexico border and extends it directly across a world atlas, forming a corridor of global conflict between the 30 and 36 degrees North Parallel. Along this imaginary border encircling the globe lie some of the world’s most contested thresholds.

Ago 27

CrisisCommons

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The Agnostic Cartographer - John Gravois

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Dic 1

“The bottom line is that no handbook relieves a professional counterinsurgent from the personal obligation to study, internalize and interpret the physical, human, informational and ideological setting in which the conflict takes place. Conflict ethnography is key; to borrow a literary term, there is no substitute for a “close reading” of the environment. But it is a reading that resides in no book, but around you; in the terrain, the people, their social and cultural institutions, the way they act and think. You have to be a participant observer. And the key is to see beyond the surface differences between our societies and these environments (of which religious orientation is one key element) to the deeper social and cultural drivers of conflict, drivers that locals would understand on their own terms.” David Kicullen: SWJ Blog: Religion and Insurgency - Small Wars Journal

Jul 16

Human Landscapes | Guns, forests and carbon

Nuevas evidencias muestran que la relación entre crisis ambiental y conflicto humano puede operar en ambas direcciones. Jared Diamond explicaba como la crisis ambiental provocó históricamente la destrucción de civilizaciones. Ahora, estudios paleoclimáticos muestran, con datos de la zona de Vietnam, que la guerra (el mayor de los conflictos) ha sido la principal causa de los incendios (un agente clave en las crisis ambientales), más importante que la agricultura.