HFG Emerging Scholars …and natural resource competition Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict Political extremism and nationalism The Foundation supports research that investigates the basic mechanisms in the production of violence, but primacy is…
Constitutional Design: Many Architects, No Buildings …the prospects of the most multiethnic Bosnian party. So incoherence is not incompatible with ethnic conciliation, but serious attention to the coherent package problem is still by no means amiss….
HFG Distinguished Scholars …related to many subjects, including, but not limited to, the following: War Crime Terrorism Family and intimate-partner relationships Climate instability and natural resource competition Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict Political…
“The Problem Comes from the Top”: A Conversation with Yphtach Lelkes …and creating coalitions to pass bills. When there is a flattening of conflict, there’s no room for compromise. When everyone on your side believes one thing and everyone on the…
The Middle Eastern Military as a Factor in Domestic and Regional Conflict and Violence: A Case Study of the Iranian Army The research project consisted of a case study of the political and social role played by the Iranian army in the recent history both of Iran itself and of the…
Political Violence, Military Conflict and Civil Unrest in Palestine: The Palestinian Police, the Fatah Tanzim and the “Al-Aqsa Intifada” This research project was originally undertaken with the aim of examining the roles played by the military and civilian police forces of the Palestinian Authority, and the popular militias (in…
Irish Religious Demography and Conflict, 1659–1926 The goal of this project was to collect and analyze historical data (official and unofficial) on the numbers of Irish Catholics and Protestants (the latter divided between Anglicans and Dissenters),…
The Diffusion of Lethal and Nonlethal Violence in Gang Networks …any gang’s past conflicts and battles. Put another way, understanding a gang’s prior pattern of conflict and violence goes far in predicting whom the gang will engage next. Such gang…
An Unexpected Peace: Understanding Resilient Order and Violence in Multi-Gang Environments Rival criminal organizations sometimes coexist peacefully in the same territory. Mexican drug cartels, known worldwide for their violent battles for turf (Molzahn et al. 2012), are not the exception. Until…
“We’re in the Danger Zone”: A Conversation with Caroline Mehl …conflict. From Trump on down to your average Twitter/X troll, I’m wondering how much blame you place at the feet of conflict entrepreneurs. Or are they more symptom than cause?…
