Before revision:  The statistics of conflict show remarkable regularities like power law distributions of fatalities and duration , but lack a unifying framework. We explore a large, detailed data set of 10^5 armed conflict reports spanning 20 years across nearly 10^4 kilometers.
After revision:  The statistics of conflict show remarkable regularities like power law distributions of fatalities and duration over varying culture and geography. We systematically cluster conflict reports from a database of 10^5 armed conflict reports spanning 20 years across nearly 10^4 kilometers.