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Brandsch, J., & Python, A. (2020). Provoking ordinary people: The effects of terrorism on civilian violence. Journal of Conflict Resolution, .

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Python, A., Brandsch, J., Illian, J., Jones-Todd, C., & Blangiardo, M. (2020). Statistics and terrorism: Insights into lethality of terrorism through Bayesian Modeling. In , Wiley StatsRef: Statistics refernce online (pp. 1-6).

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Brandsch, J. (2020). Killing civilians in civil war: The rationale of indiscriminate violence. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Indiscriminate violence against civilians is a recurrent phenomenon in armed conflicts. However, from a social science perspective this type of violence poses a puzzle.  Government and non-government indiscriminate violence is often assumed to have counterproductive effect and to be ultimately... more

Python, A., Brandsch, J., & Tskhay, A. (2017). Provoking local ethnic violence – A global study on ethnic polarization and terrorist targeting. Political Geography, 58(May 2017), 77-89.

This article theorizes and empirically investigates the link between ethnic divisions and terrorist attacks on a local scale. We argue that terrorists in ethnic contexts can use two separate provocation strategies: one targeting the government and one targeting opposing ethnic groups in order to... more