Before revision:  The temporal evolution of conflicts measured by these scaling variables display emergent symmetry, reflecting self-similarity in the trajectories of conflict avalanches. Taken together, our measurements describe a system that is distinct from prevailing explanations of conflict growth such as self-similar forest fire models.
After revision:  The temporal evolution of conflicts measured by these scaling variables display emergent symmetry, collapsing onto a universal dynamical profile over a range of scales. The measured exponents and dynamical profiles describe a system that is distinct from prevailing explanations of conflict growth such as self-similar forest fire models.