2010 MRes projects
- A feasibility study of the use of ground penetrating radar and metal oxide semiconductor sensors on a mobile platform for security applications
- The use of forensic evidence in the prosecution of terrorism cases in Britain
- Scintillation materials for the detection of special nuclear materials (SNMs)
- Looking beyond borders: Identification, information and the diffusion of conflicts.
- How hard can it be?: A study investigating user trust decisions in e-commerce
- Non-contact object localisation for automated 'on-belt- tomosynthesis
- Immmunising the Internet
- Investigating forward scatter radar for maritime target detection using statistical and comparative study
- The spatial distribution of post-blast RDX residue: Forensic implications
- Factors influencing intelligence analysts performance in using Bayesian and automated analysis of competing hypotheses
- Secure digital archive search using a probably approximately correct architecture
- Constraints and prospects of the application of scientific rigour to conflict early warning in Africa
- Prediction of crime patterns emerging from simulated search trajectories of individual offenders
- Download warnings: A rational rejection of security advice?
- The effectiveness of vehicle security devices to prevent car crime in Chile
- Inferring user behaviour despite wireless network encryption
- A feasibility study of the use of ground penetrating radar and metal oxide semiconductor sensors on a mobile platform for security applications
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Looking beyond borders: Identification, information and the diffusion of conflicts.
22 February 2012
This work tests empirically whether demonstration effects between groups involved in conflicts and groups in other countries help explaining the diffusion of ethnic as well as intra-state conflicts in general between countries. Demonstration effects are hypothesized to rely on identification and information as opposed to geographical proximity.
Three factors are hypothesized to increase identification between groups in different countries that can facilitate the spill-over of conflicts: Firstly, ethnically discriminated groups’ involvement in conflicts increases the likelihood of conflict diffusion to countries with higher numbers of discriminated groups, secondly ethnic distinctions in conflicts in general increase the likelihood of conflict diffusion to countries that are ethnically more polarized and thirdly diffusion of intra-state conflicts in general is more likely to countries with similar regimes.
The first identification factor is found to be limited to countries with lower number of ethnic groups suggesting that in countries with higher numbers of discriminated groups governments may take preventive measures against spill-overs. The impact of the second and the third identification factors is found to be positive but statistically not significant. The general hypotheses were retested in relation to information-enhancing factors such as media availability and openness.
Findings weakly suggest that these factors increase the impact of inspirational events under hypothesis one but not under the other hypotheses.
