…others are examining how justice systems handle it, and some are studying effective ways to foster peace after conflict. These eleven students and their research projects are excellent investments in…

Syria has been ravaged by conflict since 2011, when an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s authoritarian rule spiraled into civil war. From the start, but especially in its first few…

…religious violence in Mexico recognizes the conflicts and divisions that existed between the clergy and lay groups and organizations, as well as within the clergy, regarding the legitimacy of violence….

…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…

…Smith has called “myths of ethnic descent” to validate their claims to power. However, the boundaries of race and nation rarely coincide, and racial separatists therefore find themselves embedded in…

As the twentieth century closed, historians debated whether it should be labeled the “Century of Genocide” or whether mass slaughter of ethnic, national, or religious groups began much earlier, for…

In northern Nigeria there is a phenomenon of youth groups who, through communal ideologies and acts, both suffered and meted out physical and metaphysical forms of violence. I paid careful…

…caste-like ethnic relationships, poverty, illiteracy, and lack of infrastructure. This project addresses these biases by developing a victim-based violence data series for South Carolina, extending from the end of Reconstruction…

…to overturn several conventional ideas about nation-making, modernization, and ethnic violence under Stalin. Seen from the angle of the Soviet east, a region that, to date, has not received as…

…serotonin could explain why this person rather than the next succumbs to the distinctive mix of violence-promoting influences impinging on a given neighborhood, ethnic group, class, or nation. I am…