…HFG Distinguished Scholars comprises outstanding researchers studying problems of serious violence around the world,” said HFG Director of Research Joel Wallman. “Land conflict in Lesotho, organized crime in Mexico, and…

…segregationists are statements of an increasingly heated anticlericalism. The southern white churches ended up conflicted, passive, and relatively silent on race questions. As frustrating as that silence was to Martin…

…the context of Brazilian street life of surviving conflict, if not of avoiding it. Following a chance encounter with her on a return visit to Recife in 1999, by which…

…modification of the prevailing notion of a “pacified” African past, as well as to suggest historical continuity between precolonial conflict and contemporary “ragged warfare.” The findings so far certainly support…

…allow us to know with certainty how many couples were unhappy and to what extent they opted for separation. However, the evidence found in the 273 spousal-conflict complaints and in…

Our original research focused on the militarization of Nuer and Dinka community life, with special attention devoted to the role of ethnic conflict triggered off by the 1991 splitting of…

…of the second principal phase of the war in the Republican-held territories, once the first six months had passed. My previous research on the first months of the conflict had…

…because it foreshadowed the array of devastating conflicts that would eventually threaten the survival of most postcolonial African states. The war was the first major conflict in postcolonial Africa, and…

…South poured into the city. Social, religious, and political tensions were more explicit and raw than today, and conflict relating to the labor movement was far more volatile than in…