The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars …Fighting and Bargaining Across Two Centuries of International Conflict Laine Munir (Anthropology, African Leadership University). Valuable Resources: Women, Conflict, and Modern Mining Practices in Rwanda Robert Simiyu (Geography, Kisii University)….
“Intimate Partner Violence and Armed Conflict in Colombia”: Dr. Maria Restrepo-Ruiz …women during times of high political violence. When armed conflict-related violence decreases or during post-conflict times, however, high intimate partner violence levels persist. The Colombian armed conflict intensified adherence to…
‘Political Polarization Has Become Almost a Form of Entertainment’: A Conversation with Clionadh Raleigh …depressing conclusion: global rates of conflict are rising dramatically. Raleigh tracks global conflict with the help of researchers at Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED), an organization she helped…
‘Stories about the Way the Nation Is Organized Are Dividing Us’: A Conversation with Richard Slotkin …years of unremitting racial oppression—that you also won’t generate a sense of positive American identity? You can certainly tell the story as 400 years of unremitting racial oppression. And, yes,…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars …Challenge of Collective Victimhood and the Promise of Mutual Acknowledgement After Conflict Zora Piskacova (History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Torn Men in Torn Towns: Municipal Administrators between…
How Emerging Diseases Can Spread Conflict and Violence …to 2019 across continental Africa—including information about conflict patterns, zoonotic disease outbreaks, economic development, and climate indicators. “Zoonotic diseases can exert a profound influence on conflict dynamics.” The findings, drawn…
The Chinese Must Go: The Violent Birth of American Border Control …Across decades of felling trees and laying tracks in the American West, Chinese workers faced escalating racial conflict and unrest. In response, Congress passed the Chinese Restriction Act of 1882…
Ethnic Conflict and Socioeconomic Development in the Niger-Delta Region of Nigeria …Most of these ethnic conflicts take place in Africa, the former Soviet Union, and Latin America, with Africa accounting for roughly 50 percent of these varied conflicts. In Nigeria, the…
Troubled Peace: Explaining Political Violence in Post-Conflict Settings …these findings to contemporary settings, by developing a topology of post-conflict violence, by mapping cases of post-conflict violence across the world since 1945, and by testing my theoretical findings in…
The Carceral State in Conflict: Between Reconciliation and Radicalization This study uses the concept of the carceral state as a key to understanding national and colonial conflict by unraveling the connections between the management of conflict and the management…
