The Militarization of Nuer and Dinka Community Life: A Comparative Field Study of the Transformative Impact of Sudan’s Unresolved War 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…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2021 Emerging Scholars …Lotte Houwink ten Cate (Columbia University). Ravaged Interiors: A Modern History of Intimate Violence, 1970-2000 Jiwon Lee Kim (Stanford University). Ethnic Conflict and Non-ethnic Voting: State Co-optation of Ethnic Minorities…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2020 Distinguished Scholars …Practices in Rwanda Robert Simiyu (Kisii University). Geography, Identity Formation, and Intra-Ethnic Conflicts in Kenya’s Mt. Elgon Region: Deconstructing the Soy-Mosop Divide As a Basis for Conflict Resolution Jeremy Speight…
How Emerging Diseases Can Spread Conflict and Violence …to 2019 across continental Africa—including information about conflict patterns, zoonotic disease outbreaks, economic development, and climate indicators. “Zoonotic diseases can exert a profound influence on conflict dynamics.” The findings, drawn…
Ethnic Violence vs. Imperial Segregations: Multinational Criminality in the Russian Imperial City as a Space of Conflict and Cooperation …the well-ordered police state, and beyond the reach of public discourses? Ethnically marked criminal violence emerged not only as a socially menacing phenomenon but also as an important indicator of…
The Impact of Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks on Conflict in Africa …how these outbreaks influence different types of conflict, particularly focusing on state-initiated conflicts, rebel attacks, and social conflicts involving militias. Key Findings: State-Initiated Conflict: Zoonotic disease outbreaks are associated with…
A Sea of Blood and Tears: Ethnicity, Identity and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Volhynia, Ukraine 1941-44 My dissertation, “A Sea of Blood and Tears”: Ethnic Diversity and Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Volhynia, Ukraine 1941-1944, examines the region of Volhynia in western Ukraine under Nazi occupation. Volhynia…
“Tensions Are Very High”: Ahead of Côte d’Ivoire’s Controversial Presidential Election, Peace and Reconciliation Remain Unfinished …Washington who has studied postconflict reconciliation in Côte d’Ivoire. “Even though there is no conflict in Côte d’Ivoire right now,” Abugbilla says, “tensions are very, very high.” Ethnic and religious…
Troubled Peace: Explaining Political Violence in Post-Conflict Settings …these findings to contemporary settings, by developing a topology of post-conflict violence, by mapping cases of post-conflict violence across the world since 1945, and by testing my theoretical findings in…
The Carceral State in Conflict: Between Reconciliation and Radicalization This study uses the concept of the carceral state as a key to understanding national and colonial conflict by unraveling the connections between the management of conflict and the management…
