The Signal Program is seeking an intern for the summer of 2019 to assist in building an agent-based model.

By November 2016 an estimated 1.5 million people have become internally displaced in Somalia.

Climate change, environmental degradation, conflict, political and economic instability, and food crises stand to increase the numbers and movement of Somalia’s internally displaced populations (IDPs). There is an urgent need for the development of an agent-based model to understand the effects of climate change and conflict on pastoralists and internally displaced populations in the Horn of Africa.

To accomplish this, the Signal Program is applying agent-based modeling to new, theoretical methods of tracking migration patterns, considering variables ranging from environmental indices, conflict, and available support. We're seeking assistance in translating conceptual models into code, test ABM prototypes with empirical data and produce preliminary deliverables for project partners.