Recent Works

Forthcoming and accepted articles

1. Ito, Gaku. "Why Does Ethnic Partition Foster Violence? Unpacking the Deep Historical Roots of Civil Conflicts." Conditionally accepted for publication at Journal of Peace Research.
2. Ito, Gaku, and Kaisa Hinkkainen Elliott. 2020. "Battle Diffusion Matters: Examining the Impact of Microdynamics of Fighting on Conflict Termination." Journal of Conflict Resolution 64(5): 871-902.

Working papers

1. Harada, Masataka, Gaku Ito, and Daniel M. Smith. 2019. "Destruction from Above: Long-Term Impacts of WWII Tokyo Air Raids." Available at SSRN.
2. Ito, Gaku. 2019. "Escalation with Relocation: Unpacking the Local Geography of Aid and Battle Intensity in Civil Conflicts." Available at SSRN.
3. Ito, Gaku, and Jun Koga Sudduth. 2019. "How Peacekeeping Spreads Peace: Spatial Effects of Peacekeeping on Violence." To be posted.
4. Ito, Gaku, and Masataka Harada. 2019. "Historical Image Analysis with Machine Learning: Evaluating the Damages of WWII Tokyo Air Raids." To be posted.