In collaboration with Karsten Donnay, I’ve put together a method for analyzing reactive patterns in spatial event data. The corresponding paper and the R package are now available online. We demonstrated the efficiency of the method in Monte Carlo simulations and its merit in an analysis of civilian reactions to insurgent violence in Iraq. I hope the software will help uncover conflict dynamics in irregular wars and maybe even suitable interventions to stop local cycles of violence.

“Geography, outcome, and casualties: a unified model of insurgency” has made it through a rigorous and long peer review process and is now being published in JCR. See publications for the paper, supplementary information, full replication data, and code.

I actually finished my PhD thesis last fall… That was a big pile of work to say the least. I’ll try to update this site more frequently now that this thing is taken care of…

I migrated to WordPress and sorted out some contents putting this website into a more-awesome-than-ever mode. You can now download publications and I’ll add data and code!