  Armed conflict exhibits regularities beyond known power law distributions of
fatalities and duration over varying culture and geography. We systematically
cluster conflict reports from a database of $10^5$ events from Africa spanning
20 years into conflict avalanches. Conflict profiles collapse over a range of
scales. Duration, diameter, extent, fatalities, and report totals satisfy
mutually consistent scaling relations captured with a model combining
geographic spread and local conflict-site growth. The emergence of such social
scaling laws hints at principles guiding conflict evolution.
