Spatial analysis of border closure intervention scheme in conflict-induced displacement

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Spatial analysis of border closure intervention scheme in conflict-induced displacement

Jafari, Z; Davies, T; Johnson, SD; (2020) Spatial analysis of border closure intervention scheme in conflict-induced displacement. In: GeoSim '20: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoSpatial Simulation. (pp. pp. 1-9). ACM: Association for Computing Machinery: New York, NY, USA. Green open access

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Abstract

Since 2011, Syria has experienced episodes of large-scale conflict and violence. Syrian Civil War has exposed the global society to increasingly flow of refugees who are forcibly displaced from their homes due to persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations. The inconsistent responses from humanitarian organisations and governments indicate lack of robust framework to assess and evaluate policy responses. In this article, we examine the effect of border control policies via a data-driven agent-based model of refugee flows from Syria. We implement policy scenarios and investigate the consequences in the flow pattern in terms of measuring the size of flows and the potential destinations. We demonstrate that the spatial configuration of borders intended to be closed directly influence the consequences of the corresponding closure policy.

Type:	Proceedings paper
Title:	Spatial analysis of border closure intervention scheme in conflict-induced displacement
Event:	SIGSPATIAL '20: 28th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
Location:	Seattle, Washington, USA
Dates:	03 November 2020 - 06 November 2020
ISBN-13:	9781450381611
Open access status:	An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI:	10.1145/3423335.3428162
Publisher version:	https://doi.org/10.1145/3423335.3428162
Language:	English
Additional information:	This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification:	UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Security and Crime Science
URI:	https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10115674