--- abstract: 'The paper statistically observed the recorded data of the series of social clashes and violence in Ambon, Indonesia in the period of social conflict between 1999-2004. The scaling laws are revealed and the power-law fitting procedures and analysis are conducted. The results also reviewed some findings in wars among countries in the worlds now well known as Richardson’s Law. The paper also discussed the plausible explanations in the sense of possible underlying process of the famous self-organized criticality by reviewing the classic forest fire model. Some further sociological explorations in the sense of computational and agent-based model approaches are also conjectured. ' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Situngkir given: Hokky honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Khanafiah given: Deni honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2007-04 date_type: published datestamp: 2007-05-04 department: Computational Sociology dir: disk0/00/00/55/27 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 5527 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/5527/1/Ambon's_Conflict.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: Bandung Fe Institute isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'social clashes, social conflict and violence, power law distribution, Richardson’s Law, self-organized criticality.' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:50 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: | Bak, P. 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