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Some related work on conflict prediction can be found here:
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~devika/conflict/publications.html

this is an example where network analysis is employed:

Hubs, authorities and networks: predicting conflict using events data, 
R. Stoll and D.
Subramanian, International Studies Association, 2006
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~devika/conflict/papers/stollsubramanian.pdf

Ciao,

Matteo


On 26/08/13 21:59, Brian Keegan wrote:
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> The GDELT data is sitting there waiting to have someone run a network
> analysis on it for exactly these types of questions about conflict at a
> daily level of resolution. Data goes back to 1979.
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> http://gdelt.utdallas.edu/
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> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:54 PM, martina morris
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>     Interesting to note that in this graph no one in the middle east
>     hates Israel or the US (or more accurately, none of the other actors
>     in the middle east have any relationship to either country)
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>     On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, James Holland Jones wrote:
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>         Perhaps people have seen, though no one has yet commented on,
>         the remarkable directed, signed sociogram created by the
>         pseudonymous Egyptian blogger "The Big Pharaoh" (twitter:
>         @TheBigPharaoh) and reprinted in the Washington Post today.
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>         http://www.washingtonpost.com/__blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/__26/the-middle-east-explained-__in-one-sort-of-terrifying-__chart/
>         <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/26/the-middle-east-explained-in-one-sort-of-terrifying-chart/>
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>         This remarkable digraph is begging for some analysis from
>         someone with a bit of time to kill...
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