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This chapter describes a system that was developed by the Department of Defense to monitor, assess and forecast a variety of de-stabilizing events throughout the world, including insurgencies, rebellions, international crises, domestic political crises, and ethnic/religious violence. The chapter describes each of the key components of the system, and the lessons the author learned as he integrated basic research and transformed it into an operationally useful system for crisis early warning.
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O’Brien, S.P. (2013). A Multi-Method Approach for Near Real Time Conflict and Crisis Early Warning. In: Subrahmanian, V. (eds) Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5311-6_18
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