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…
Ordinary Soldiers? A Case Study of the Nazi-Soviet War of Annihilation …that fought on the eastern front for the entire duration of the war lends itself to deducing the typical experiences of German front-line combat divisions during this conflict. The extensive…
Religion, Conscience, and Abusive Behaviour: Understanding the Role of Faith and Spirituality in the Deterrence of Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Ethiopia …adapted participatory workshops with clergy to explore their understandings of conjugal abuse in their communities and the nature and influence of their own mediation in conjugal conflict, as well as…
‘When People Spend Time Together, They are Less Inclined to See Each Other as the Enemy’: A Conversation with Matt Grossmann …by hyperbolic political conflict, combined with very minimal policymaking achievements. I think that combination has driven a lot of frustration with our political system. But many would argue that this…
