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Complex Network Analysis of Mass Violation, Specifically Mass Killing
News reports in media contain news about society’s social and political conditions. With the help of publicly available digital datasets of events, it is possible to study a complex network of mass violations, i.e., Mass Killings. Multiple approaches have been applied to bring essential insights int...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9394321/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35892998 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24081017 |
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author | Erum, Iqra Malick, Rauf Ahmed Shams Ahmed, Ghufran Cherifi, Hocine |
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description | News reports in media contain news about society’s social and political conditions. With the help of publicly available digital datasets of events, it is possible to study a complex network of mass violations, i.e., Mass Killings. Multiple approaches have been applied to bring essential insights into the events and involved actors. Power law distribution behavior finds in the tail of actor mention, co-actor mention, and actor degree tells us about the dominant behavior of influential actors that grows their network with time. The United States, France, Israel, and a few other countries have been identified as major players in the propagation of Mass Killing throughout the past 20 years. It is demonstrated that targeting the removal of influential actors may stop the spreading of such conflicting events and help policymakers and organizations. This paper aims to identify and formulate the conflicts with the actor’s perspective at a global level for a period of time. This process is a generalization to be applied to any level of news, i.e., it is not restricted to only the global level. |
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spelling | pubmed-93943212022-08-23 Complex Network Analysis of Mass Violation, Specifically Mass Killing Erum, Iqra Malick, Rauf Ahmed Shams Ahmed, Ghufran Cherifi, Hocine Entropy (Basel) Article News reports in media contain news about society’s social and political conditions. With the help of publicly available digital datasets of events, it is possible to study a complex network of mass violations, i.e., Mass Killings. Multiple approaches have been applied to bring essential insights into the events and involved actors. Power law distribution behavior finds in the tail of actor mention, co-actor mention, and actor degree tells us about the dominant behavior of influential actors that grows their network with time. The United States, France, Israel, and a few other countries have been identified as major players in the propagation of Mass Killing throughout the past 20 years. It is demonstrated that targeting the removal of influential actors may stop the spreading of such conflicting events and help policymakers and organizations. This paper aims to identify and formulate the conflicts with the actor’s perspective at a global level for a period of time. This process is a generalization to be applied to any level of news, i.e., it is not restricted to only the global level. MDPI 2022-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9394321/ /pubmed/35892998 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24081017 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Erum, Iqra Malick, Rauf Ahmed Shams Ahmed, Ghufran Cherifi, Hocine Complex Network Analysis of Mass Violation, Specifically Mass Killing |
title | Complex Network Analysis of Mass Violation, Specifically Mass Killing |
title_full | Complex Network Analysis of Mass Violation, Specifically Mass Killing |
title_fullStr | Complex Network Analysis of Mass Violation, Specifically Mass Killing |
title_full_unstemmed | Complex Network Analysis of Mass Violation, Specifically Mass Killing |
title_short | Complex Network Analysis of Mass Violation, Specifically Mass Killing |
title_sort | complex network analysis of mass violation, specifically mass killing |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9394321/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35892998 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24081017 |
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