“You Can Reduce Violence But Harm People”: A Conversation with Caterina Roman …reduce violence but harm people. You are advancing a kind of “do no harm” argument on behalf of Cure Violence. But do we know that it actually does what it…
Alcohol: The Aggression Elixir? …indicating that alcohol consumption is strongly linked to verbal aggression, aggressive threats, family violence, marital aggression, violence-related emergency-room visits, child abuse, firearm use, sexual aggression, homicide, and suicide. A well-designed…
HFG Launches Multi-year Initiative on Violence, Politics, and Democracy …certain to create an environment in which political violence thrives. Does this view accurately describe the relationship between polarization and violence? Does violence increase when perceptions of government legitimacy wane?…
Intrahousehold Income Inequality and Conflict: Testing an Economic Model of Domestic Violence in Kerala, India Domestic violence in developing countries has been an area of growing concern among researchers and activists in the women’s health and rights movements. An entrenched patriarchal system and a scarcity…
Happy Marriages: Civilizing Domestic Life in Costa Rica, 1850–1950 …domestic violence. These myths are: 1) that violence was considered a “natural” part of marriage relationships rather than a practice constructed and transformed historically and in everyday life; 2) that…
“Ordinary People Are Really Not All That Extreme”: A Conversation with Matthew Levendusky …support for violence in a survey. The problem with political violence isn’t that there’s a significant percentage of the public who think violence is acceptable … The problem is really…
“We’re Losing a Sense of Accountability”: A Conversation with Richard Aborn …I think the expression that we have a “problem” with violence is really an understatement. I think we are now getting close to a crisis of violence. It is obviously…
The Dynamics of Violence in Civil War: Evaluating the Impact of Ethnicity on Violence …violence is really ethnic; for, ethnic violence is more than violence between individuals of different ethnicities. The main obstacle in answering this question is methodological: comparing ethnic and nonethnic wars…
‘Political Polarization Has Become Almost a Form of Entertainment’: A Conversation with Clionadh Raleigh Clionadh Raleigh Clionadh Raleigh, a professor of political violence and geography at the University of Sussex, has been studying violence for more than twenty years and has come to a…
Dynamics of Violence in Conventional Civil Wars What explains violence against civilians in civil wars? Why do armed groups use violence in some places but not in neighboring places with similar characteristics? Why do they kill more…
