Quantifying the Risk of Pastoral Conflict in 4 Central African Countries
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| author | Solaa, Lirika Chen, Youdinghuan Murphy, Samantha K. Subrahmanian, V. S. |
| author_facet | Solaa, Lirika Chen, Youdinghuan Murphy, Samantha K. Subrahmanian, V. S. |
| contents | Climate change is becoming a widely recognized risk factor of farmer-herder conflict in Africa. Using an 8 year dataset (Jan 2015 to Sep 2022) of detailed weather and terrain data across four African nations, we apply statistical and machine learning methods to analyze pastoral conflict. We test hypotheses linking these variables with pastoral conflict within each country using geospatial and statistical analysis. Complementing this analysis are risk maps automatically updated for decision-makers. Our models estimate which cells have a high likelihood of experiencing pastoral conflict with high predictive accuracy and study the variation of this accuracy with the granularity of the cells. |
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| spellingShingle | Quantifying the Risk of Pastoral Conflict in 4 Central African Countries Solaa, Lirika Chen, Youdinghuan Murphy, Samantha K. Subrahmanian, V. S. Computers and Society Climate change is becoming a widely recognized risk factor of farmer-herder conflict in Africa. Using an 8 year dataset (Jan 2015 to Sep 2022) of detailed weather and terrain data across four African nations, we apply statistical and machine learning methods to analyze pastoral conflict. We test hypotheses linking these variables with pastoral conflict within each country using geospatial and statistical analysis. Complementing this analysis are risk maps automatically updated for decision-makers. Our models estimate which cells have a high likelihood of experiencing pastoral conflict with high predictive accuracy and study the variation of this accuracy with the granularity of the cells. |
| title | Quantifying the Risk of Pastoral Conflict in 4 Central African Countries |
| topic | Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18799 |