The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2023-2024 African Fellows …All are doctoral candidates at African universities exploring important problems of violence related to the African continent. Fellows are investigating topics, including inter-ethnic conflict, democratization, and political protests. The fellowship…
“Beyond the Crisis: Reimagining Migrant Protection” …Surulola Eke, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen’s University, who studies links among autochthony, natural resources, and conflicts in West Africa, and Charles Larratt-Smith, an assistant professor of political science…
“Sex Work: Does Legitimization Mitigate Violence?” …their profession in conflict-affected regions. It also delved into the implications of reducing violence against sex workers should the practice become legalized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQnewsn9Pfg For the third installment of The Harry…
“It’s Time to Be Very Afraid”: A Conversation with Peter Coleman …we see from international conflicts over a 200-year period is that something like 95 percent of protracted international conflicts end within ten years of some kind of political shock. COVID…
In the Balkans, Barriers Made Neighbors Bad Photo: Sygma via Getty Images For many people living in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the possibility of interethnic violence was inconceivable. Until it wasn’t. Conflict between conationals…
When Militaries Turn Against Authoritarians: Lessons from Tunisia and the Arab Spring …security force deployed to protect the Interior Ministry was far more influential than long-standing resentments and conflicting interests within the ranks. Building upon the earlier work of scholars like Ivan…
Fear, Violence, and Restraint: Dynamics of Historical Change in the Tunisian Revolution …hypotheses illuminate negotiators’ motivations, but fail to theorize how actors form a convergent view of their respective strengths, which is necessary to avoid conflict. In postbreakdown moments, public events—particularly mobilization…
HFG Welcomes Its 2026 Emerging Scholars …What is it about psychopathic personality traits that elevates the risk of committing aggression and violence? How do prisons promote conflict between racial and ethnic groups? Each of our 2026 Emerging…
Our Work …of subjects, including: War Terrorism Crime Family and intimate-partner relationships Climate instability and natural resource competition Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict Political extremism and nationalism The Foundation’s work is advanced…
Programs …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 given…
