Irish Religious Demography and Conflict, 1659–1926 The goal of this project was to collect and analyze historical data (official and unofficial) on the numbers of Irish Catholics and Protestants (the latter divided between Anglicans and Dissenters),…
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…
HFG Distinguished Scholars …related to many subjects, including, but not limited to, the following: War Crime Terrorism Family and intimate-partner relationships Climate instability and natural resource competition Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict Political…
The Impact of Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks on Conflict in Africa …how these outbreaks influence different types of conflict, particularly focusing on state-initiated conflicts, rebel attacks, and social conflicts involving militias. Key Findings: State-Initiated Conflict: Zoonotic disease outbreaks are associated with…
Religion, Conscience, and Abusive Behaviour: Understanding the Role of Faith and Spirituality in the Deterrence of Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Ethiopia …resourcefulness of theology-informed religious discourse to serve as a remedial tool for certain forms of abuse and the need to integrate psychological factors in the analysis of and response to…
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…
A Political Science Perspective on Teaching about Violence …violence, I have found, is to ask them to write a term paper in which they diagnose and “solve” their own violent conflict. In my course on ethnic conflict, I…
One Year Later: Reflections on How Syrian Opposition Groups United to Oust Assad …this effect. First, the dominant coalescing faction required a strong ideological bent, which, in the Syrian context, tended toward Islamist ideology. Religious conviction and shared beliefs brought disparate bands together…
Some Things Psychologists Think They Know About Aggression and Violence …violence are mostly to be found in individual differences that tell us little about group conflict. Rather the origins of group conflict are in the power of group dynamics, and…
