Blood and Soil: Modern Genocide, 1500–2000 …the most serious and violent crime against humanity. My book links it with territorial aggression and with ideological notions of land use and class purity and superiority. Identifying the specific…
Strategic Observers Underground: How They See Trouble and What They Do Next Following Jane Jacobs’s observations of the role of “public characters” as a mechanism for heading off city crime and street violence, we asked just how such individuals actually do their…
Ethnic Identity, Collective Action and Conflict: An Experimental Approach A large literature shows that ethnically homogenous communities often do a better job than diverse communities of producing satisfactory schools and health care, adequate sanitation, low levels of crime, and…
The Diffusion of Lethal and Nonlethal Violence in Gang Networks …how concentrated gun violence is within social networks. For example, in a study of one high-crime Boston community, this research found that 85 percent of all fatal and nonfatal gunshot…
Serotonin and Impulsive Aggression: Not So Fast …in the United States beginning in the middle 1980s or the decrease of recent years? Would it clarify why the rate of violent crime has declined in New York, Los…
Surer Mohamed Named 2021 Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge …disseminating knowledge on the nature, consequences, and reduction of violence in its many forms, including war, crime, and human aggression. It is committed to funding scholarly research into the causes…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2020 Distinguished Scholars …consequences, and reduction of violence in its many forms, including war, crime, and human aggression. 2020 Scholars and Research Topics Smadar Ben-Natan (University of Washington). The Carceral State in Conflict:…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Renames Three Signature Awards …Foundation. The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is a leader in creating and disseminating knowledge on the nature, consequences, and reduction of violence in its many forms, including war, crime, and…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2020 Dissertation Fellows …of Organized Crime Chulani Kodikara (Political Science, University of Edinburgh). Grief and Hope, Inscription and Erasure: A Struggle for Truth and Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka Molly Minden (Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison). Legacies…
HFG Fall Internship …problems of violence, such as war, crime, and human aggression. Through basic and applied research, we aim to understand the causes, manifestation, and control of violence. We spread this knowledge…
