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SUMMARY:Conflict Shapes in Flux: A Typology of Spatial Change in Armed Con
 flict - Kate Tcakova (University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:In armed conflicts across the globe\, the loci of violence cha
 nge over time\, including across state borders. Nonetheless\, both academi
 c and policy analyses are typically still guided by static units of analys
 is and hence fail to capture spatial change in conflict. What explains cha
 nge in the territorial scope and location of violent events in a single se
 tting of armed conflict? We argue that shifts in two factors contribute to
  patterns in spatial change across conflicts: the relative strength of the
  state actor and whether there is a change in the conflict’s dominant ac
 tors. To demonstrate our argument\, we build a typology of spatial change 
 in armed conflict based on conceptualising conflict as a fluid multi-actor
  phenomenon. Using the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset\, we construct a 
 “conflict shape” in the form of a yearly changing polygon as a dynamic
  spatial unit of analysis. We apply the typology to five cases to show the
  validity of these factors: the conflict in the Afghanistan-Pakistan borde
 rlands\, the conflict in the Horn of Africa\, the Islamist insurgency in N
 igeria\, the conflict in Colombia\, and the conflict in Iraq/Syria. The an
 alysis demonstrates the typology’s utility for analysing conflict geogra
 phies\, conducting within-case and cross-case comparisons of conflicts\, a
 nd explaining common patterns across various conflicts.\n\nDiscussant: Mar
 ia Gargiulo\nSpeakers:\nKate Tcakova (University of Oxford)
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b4ef9b47-7086-4646-b4a3-ecfe013c607b/
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