“Pluralism Is a Learned Value”: A Conversation with Dan Vallone …today’s violence vary, ranging from widespread financial anxiety and the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic to unease at America’s changing racial and ethnic demographics and a coarsening of political rhetoric…
Welcome to Our 2025 HFG Distinguished Scholars …peacebuilders in Africa; the potential for improving interethnic relations in Israel by diversifying primary education teaching staffs; policing structures in Brazil, El Salvador, and Honduras; and early-warning systems for violence….
HFG Pembroke College Research Fellow …a Ph.D. student in politics and international studies at Queens’ College Cambridge, studied post-conflict urban reconstruction and conflict-related property disputes in Mogadishu, Somalia. 2017–2020 Nicki Kindersley, a senior lecturer in…
Postcolonial Aspirations and Intimacies of Violence Among Gebusi of the Nomad Area, Papua New GuineaandThe Role of Culture in the Early Evolution of Human Violence …rate of homicide when figured on a per capita basis per annum. Cases of sorcery were seldom avenged or were brought to the police by Gebusi themselves for conflict resolution;…
Seeing Like a Peacebuilder: An Ethnography of International Intervention Why do international peace interventions so often fail to reach their full potential? To answer this question, I conducted several years of research in conflict zones around the world, including…
Armed Politics and the State in Post-Colonial Asia The political relationships between governments and armed groups differ dramatically. Sometimes they are locked in intense conflict, in other contexts they cut live-and-let-live deals, and in yet others they cooperate…
When Comrades Go to War: Post-Liberation Movements, Elite Politics and the Internal Dynamics of Africa’s Great War …conflict that had its roots in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 and erupted in two phases (1996 and 1998), claiming the lives of more than four million Africans. These findings…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Distinguished Scholars …of war and conflict. TOP FROM LEFT: MARGHERITA BELGIOIOSO, AREEJ SABBAGH-KHOURY, EDUARDO MONCADA, STEPHEN DAVIS, MOHAMMED IBRAHIM SHIRE, ORE KOREN, ABBY CORDOVA, ANDREW PAPACHRISTOS, LAURA BLUME, RAUL SANCHEZ DE LA…
‘A Diffused Climate of Threats and Intimidation’: A Conversation with Daniel Stid …to defund Obamacare. That was the hyper-partisan, ideologically framed conflict that made us say, “This is the problem: the bipartisan space for policymaking has really completely eroded.” Very early on,…
