The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2020 Distinguished Scholars …in Nairobi Eric Min (University of California, Los Angeles). Fighting and Bargaining Across Two Centuries of International Conflict Laine Munir (University of Rwanda). Valuable Resources: Women, Conflict, and Modern Mining…
Words of War: Does Negotiation End or Extend Conflict? …end wars and quell conflict. Over the last two centuries, two-thirds of interstate wars were ended using negotiated settlements. In his recent book, Eric Min, Assistant Professor of Political Science at…
Fueling the Fires: How Corruption and Conflict Keep Each Other Burning In this HFG Research and Policy in Brief, authors Diana Chigas and Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church of Besa Global examine the corrosive interdependence of corruption and conflict and make the case for…
Fighting and Bargaining Across Two Centuries of International Conflict …have ended through a negotiated settlement that stops conflict short of complete military victory or defeat. Nonetheless, scholarship has failed to adequately address when, why, and how belligerents choose to…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows …University of Pretoria), Narratives of Male Perpetrators on Factors Contributing to Gender-Based Violence: A Case Study of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Lameck Kachena (Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Cape Town),…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Welcomes Its 2025-2026 African Fellows …conflict, and counterterrorism. The fellowship provides each recipient with a research grant and support on research design, writing, and publishing. Additionally, leading scholars serve as mentors to the recipients throughout…
Social Violence and Religious Conflict in Late Medieval Valencia My HFG-supported project explores violence within the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities of the kingdom of Valencia (Spain) as well as violence between these communities in order to shed new…
The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict Conflicts involve powerful experiences. The residue of these experiences is captured by the concept and language of emotion. Indiscriminate killing creates fear; targeted violence produces anger and a desire for…
From Coltan to Cattle: Unearthing Violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo …different conflict actors. In addition to well-known conflict resources such as minerals and timber, more mundane commodities, such as marijuana and palm oil, were found to be significant valuables in…
“Weapons of War: Examining Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Zones” …panel discussed how government and non-state actors can formulate humanitarian responses to conflict-related sexual violence. They also suggested new areas for research in the fields of gender, international relations, and…
