The Hardest Terrain? The Effects of Urban Terrain on Government Violence during Civil War

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Brief Overview

The paper analyzes the effects of urban terrain on government violence during civil war. The data comes from a fine-grained dataset of 140+ victims of violence during the Syrian civil war and satellite imagery about the urban topography of Homs.

Author

• Martín Macías-Medellín, University of Michigan