This study extends classical models of spreading epidemics to describe the
phenomenon of contagious public outrage, which eventually leads to the spread
of violence following a disclosure of some unpopular political decisions and/or
activity. Accordingly, a mathematical model is proposed to simulate from the
start, the internal dynamics by which an external event is turned into internal
violence within a population. Five kinds of agents are considered: "Upset" (U),
"Violent" (V), "Sensitive" (S), "Immune" (I), and "Relaxed" (R), leading to a
set of ordinary differential equations, which in turn yield the dynamics of
spreading of each type of agents among the population. The process is stopped
with the deactivation of the associated issue. Conditions coinciding with a
twofold spreading of public violence are singled out. The results shed a new
light to understand terror activity and provides some hint on how to curb the
spreading of violence within population globally sensitive to specific world
issues. Recent world violent events are discussed.Comment: 22 pages, 9 figure
