@inproceedings{f1be7429624c4299a72eba4013dacf7e,
title = "The geography of conflict diamonds: The case of Sierra Leone",
abstract = "In the early 1990s, Sierra Leone entered into nearly 10 years of civil war. The ease of accessibility to the country{\textquoteright}s diamonds is said to have provided the funding needed to sustain the insurgency over the years. According to Le Billon, the spatial dispersion of a resource is a major defining feature of a war. Using geographic information systems to create a realistic landscape and theory to ground agent behavior, an agent-based model is developed to explore Le Billon{\textquoteright}s claim. Different scenarios are explored as the diamond mines are made secure and the mining areas are moved from rural areas to the capital. It is found that unexpected consequences can come from minimally increasing security when the mining sites are in rural regions, potentially displacing conflict rather than removing it. On the other hand, minimal security may be sufficient to prevent conflict when resources are found in the city.",
keywords = "Agent-based modeling, Civil war, Conflict, Geographic information systems",
author = "Bianica Pires and Andrew Crooks",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.; 9th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, SBP-BRiMS 2016 ; Conference date: 28-06-2016 Through 01-07-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-39931-7\_32",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319399300",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "335--345",
editor = "Nathaniel Osgood and Xu, \{Kevin S.\} and David Reitter and Dongwon Lee",
booktitle = "Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling - 9th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2016, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}