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Replication data for: Group Segregation and Urban Violence

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Title Replication data for: Group Segregation and Urban Violence
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DYJVD4
 
Creator Bhavnani, Ravi
Donnay, Karsten
Miodownik, Dan
Mor, Maayan
Helbing, Dirk
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description How does segregation shape inter-group violence in contested urban spaces? Should nominal rivals be kept separate, or instead more closely integrated? We develop an empirically grounded agent-based model to understand the sources and patterns of violence in urban areas, employing Jerusalem as a demonstration case and seeding our model with micro-level, geocoded data on settlement patterns. An optimal set of parameters is selected to best fit the observed spatial distribution of violence in the city, with the calibrated model used to assess how different levels of segregation, reflecting various proposed “virtual futures” for Jerusalem, would shape violence. Our results suggest that besides spatial proximity, social distance is key to explaining conflict over urban areas: arrangements conducive to reducing the extent of inter-group interactions—including localized segregation, limits on mobility and migration, partition, and differentiation of political authority—can be expected to dampen violence, although the effect of these structural changes depends decisively on social distance.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Segregation
Ethnicity
Violence
Agent-based model
Geography
 
Contributor Ravi Bhavnani
 
Type Data on acts of violence involving Secular/Moderate Orthodox Jews, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Palestinians and (Israeli) security forces within the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem. Also includes data on several permanent checkpoints in the outskirts of the city, which are used to control population flows between the West Bank and the city. Data is spatially and/or temporally aggregated at the resolution used in the study. Further, yearly population data by neighborhood of Jerusalem and shape files containing geographic information on the neighborhoods of Jerusalem and on the general locations of dwellings in the city.