# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

September  2013, 6(3): 459-479. doi: 10.3934/krm.2013.6.459

## On the dynamics of social conflicts: Looking for the black swan

 1 Department of Mathematica Sciences, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino 2 Department of Applied Mathematics, Universidad Complutense, Plaza de Ciencias 3, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain 3 Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "M. Picone", Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via dei Taurini 19, 00185 Roma, Italy

Received  January 2013 Revised  January 2013 Published  May 2013

This paper deals with the modeling of social competition, possibly resulting in the onset of extreme conflicts. More precisely, we discuss models describing the interplay between individual competition for wealth distribution that, when coupled with political stances coming from support or opposition to a Government, may give rise to strongly self-enhanced effects. The latter may be thought of as the early stages of massive unpredictable events known as Black Swans, although no analysis of any fully-developed Black Swan is provided here. Our approach makes use of the framework of the kinetic theory for active particles, where nonlinear interactions among subjects are modeled according to game-theoretical principles.
Citation: Nicola Bellomo, Miguel A. Herrero, Andrea Tosin. On the dynamics of social conflicts: Looking for the black swan. Kinetic & Related Models, 2013, 6 (3) : 459-479. doi: 10.3934/krm.2013.6.459
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