The article briefly examines the history of conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh and prerequisites for riots that took place Moscow July 2020. paper presents results an anonymous sociological survey conducted immediately after events question two regions Russian Federation (Moscow Voronezh Region). These were chosen based on fact one them is directly (the city Moscow), second part Central Federal Distr...

Although the 1960s race riots have gone down in history as America's most violent and destructive ethnic civil disturbances, a consensus on factors able to explain their insurgence is yet be found. Using novel data set universe of radio stations airing Black-appeal programming, effect media found sizable statistically significant. A marginal (1%) increase signal reception from these estimated l...

This work investigates how automated methods can be used to classify social media text into argumentation types. In particular it is shown how supervised machine learning was used to annotate a Twitter dataset (London Riots) with argumentation classes. An investigation of issues arising from a natural inconsistency within social media data found that machine learning algorithms tend to overfit ...

T he supposed failure of privatization in Latin America has recently become the source of street riots, protest demonstrations, and adverse news coverage. Riots in Arequipa, Peru, erupted in June 2002 following the announcement of a proposal to privatize power plants, while Cochabamba, Bolivia, witnessed a so-called water war in April 2000. Antiprivatization protests also occurred recently in E...

We investigated small arms and light weapons (SALW) in Africa by reviewing the situation in Nigeria and conducting a small study in one hospital in the country's north. Published reports about SALW in Nigeria suggest that several social, economic, and political factors have caused a marked increase in gun-related violence, including ethno-religious tensions, the response of security forces to c...