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Mobile-phone data reveal the acts of war that make people flee

Afghan phone records show that high-casualty events trigger the most internal displacement.
Afghan internally-displaced women and children at their tents at a refugee camp in the Herat province on February 20, 2022.

The Shaidayee refugee camp in Herat province, Afghanistan, houses families displaced by violence. Credit: Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty

Mobile-phone data are helping to reveal which types of armed conflict are most likely to force people from their homes1.

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Nature 605, 593 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01352-4

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  1. Tai, X. H., Mehra, S. & Blumenstock, J. E. Nature Hum. Behav. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01336-4 (2022).

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