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…
Blackfoot Traditional Models of Aggression and Healing …source of frustration and conflict)? Could self-awareness of changes in child-rearing promote action by the Blackfoot community to address violence through the revival or adaptation of traditional socialization strategies? Participants…
Intimate Violence in Community Context …of intimate violence is low. Finally, collective efficacy also increases the likelihood that women will disclose conflict in their relationships to various potential sources of support. This research points to…
The Peaceful Century: War in Twentieth-Century Latin America …continent. Because the state developed so late (generally only in the late-nineteenth century and then only intermittently), social, political, racial, regional, and economic conflicts were rarely controlled from above. The…
Constitutional Design: Many Architects, No Buildings This study concerns constitutional design for severely divided societies—the political institutions apt for peaceful coexistence or interethnic accommodation of groups with a history of antipathy that must nevertheless live together…
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…
White Terror: Paramilitary Violence in Interwar Central Europe …the important, but rather obvious subjects of, for example, (forced or voluntary) migration, religion, or tourism as forms of cross-cultural encounter and interaction. Yet, ethnic conflict, war and civil war,…
Violent Street Groups and Organized Crime in Russia …violence have subsided. Eruptions of uncontrolled violence are now an obstacle to the gangs’ business aims, and the gangs try to limit fights and conflict on their territory. They have…
Violence and Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Comparative Study of Kingston, Jamaica …but are subject to a looser form of gang dominance in which smaller, but no less violent, gangs control different streets and compete with each other. Despite this conflict, these…
Klan Violence/Local Violence in Reconstruction-Era Union County: A Social Network Analysis …into and relabeled existing local patterns of violence and conflict. The level and amount of violence increased dramatically with the Klan, but the perpetrators and victims of violence largely remained…
