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…
Conspiracy Beliefs and Violence in American Culture: A Comparative Study of Black and White Separatism …the virtuous must battle an evil cabal. While outwardly dissimilar, White and Black racial separatisms possess belief systems that are structurally similar. Like national groups, racialists adopt what Anthony D….
“The Long History of Anti-Asian Violence in the US”: Dr. Beth Lew-Williams …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 and made…
HFG Emerging Scholars …and natural resource competition Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict Political extremism and nationalism The Foundation supports research that investigates the basic mechanisms in the production of violence, but primacy is…
Hitler’s Prisons: Prisons and Penal Policies in Germany, 1900–1945 …conflict, fueled by the social and racial prejudices of individual inmates. Often, this resulted in collaboration with the prison authorities, for example by denouncing fellow prisoners. However, I found relatively…
Diaspora and Conflict: The Liberians of Staten Island …knowledge, transmitted back home inasmuch as I saw no evidence of Staten Islanders funding conflict in Liberia. The conflict was thus incubated in exile. The second research product was an…
Pathways to Conflict: The Impact of Climate Change on Violence “As extreme weather events become more frequent, the risk of conflict is likely to rise, driven by their effects on economic stability, agriculture, and migration.” (Vally Koubi, 2025) In her…
The Impact of Climate Change on Conflict “[W]hile climate change is not the primary driver of conflict, it can exacerbate conflict risks, particularly in regions with weak governance, high inequality, and political instability,” Vally Koubi writes in…
Fueling the Fires: How Corruption and Conflict Keep Each Other Burning …Fueling the Fires: How Corruption and Conflict Keep Each Other Burning, which examines the “vicious cycle” of conflict and corruption, using examples from Afghanistan, Guatemala, South Sudan, Myanmar, and beyond….
