Universal patterns underlying ongoing wars and terrorism

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2006-05-03

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0605035v1

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Physics and Society

This paper presents (1) new results for Afghanistan, (2) additional results for Iraq and Colombia, and (3) detailed statistica

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We report a remarkable universality in the patterns of violence arising in three high-profile ongoing wars, and in global terrorism. Our results suggest that these quite different conflict arenas currently feature a common type of enemy, i.e. the various insurgent forces are beginning to operate in a similar way regardless of their underlying ideologies, motivations and the terrain in which they operate. We provide a microscopic theory to explain our main observations. This theory treats the insurgent force as a generic, self-organizing system which is dynamically evolving through the continual coalescence and fragmentation of its constituent groups.

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