The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2020 Dissertation Fellows …Health, University of Connecticut). Intimate Partner Violence in Armed Conflict Contexts: The Case of Colombia Matthew Simonson (Network Science, Northeastern University). Kill a Stranger, Save a Neighbor: Civilian and Combatant Networks Under Fire…
“The Long History of Anti-Asian Violence in the US”: Dr. Beth Lew-Williams …of felling trees and laying tracks in the American West, Chinese workers faced escalating racial conflict and unrest. In response, Congress passed the Chinese Restriction Act of 1882 and made…
“Violence Is Contagious”: A Conversation with Andrew Papachristos …One of the most robust criminological findings is that delinquency and crime are group phenomena. The same is true of violence. I started out looking at conflicts between groups and…
“Protectors or Predators: Understanding Urban Gang Violence Around the World” Panel …Andrews and an affiliated faculty at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. David C. Brotherton is Professor of Sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the…
“Reckoning with Intimate-Partner Violence after the Pandemic” …violence in areas such as war, crime, terrorism, intimate relationships, climate instability, and political extremism. Watch Panel I: “Weapons of War: Examining Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Zones” Watch Panel III:…
“Democracy Tested: Political Violence and Global Elections” …interests in conflict, media, political communication, and legislative behaviour. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Toronto and a BCS (Computer Science) from the University of Waterloo….
“Pluralism Is a Learned Value”: A Conversation with Dan Vallone …understand what’s happening within specific institutional settings. The more that we have this binary framework locked in, the more we concede ground to what Amanda Ripley calls “conflict entrepreneurs”—the folks…
HFG African Fellows at the African Studies Association of the UK …from timely issues of electoral and separatist violence to long-standing challenges, including intimate partner violence and transitional justice in post-conflict settings. Ahead of the ASAUK conference, HFG Program Officer and…
Dying to Save: Youth Vigilantism, Civilian Joint Task Force, and Counterterrorism in Nigeria …contributions of militias to African counterinsurgencies. This research project was, at heart, an effort to understand how local communities in conflict sustained a sense of order and agency in the…
Resisting Genocidal Violence …and identity-based ties (e.g., familial) often supersede conflict-based identities that may pit people against one another. As such, we find that social ties matter tremendously and that, for many, rescuing…
