Targeted Recruitment: Explaining Why Certain Clans Join and Eschew Al-Shebab in Somalia …other subclans within the same clan family groups. Notable examples include the Gaaljecel and Marehan clans. A third group are subclans with a historical ideological grounding in Salafism and Wahhabism,…
An Unexpected Peace: Understanding Resilient Order and Violence in Multi-Gang Environments …restrain their violent confrontations in some places and not in others. First, we identified a random sample of places where multiple criminal gangs were operating simultaneously and where inter-gang violence…
Can the State Interrupt the Vicious Cycle of Gendered Violence that it Helped to Create? Evidence from Guatemala …communities. Absent broader efforts to address structural inequalities, the impacts of [violence against women and girls] reforms are unevenly experienced, with those most vulnerable to violence and most in need…
HFG Welcomes its 2025 Emerging Scholars …CORANTIN, HALEY ALLEN DEMARCO, JIMMY GRAHAM; SECOND ROW: REBEKAH JONES, SAAD LAKHANI, ANNAH MCCURRY, KARMVIR PADDA, JESSIE WALDMAN, DANIEL WAQAR “Relationship aggression, police violence against civilians, political violence from above…
‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence Amid a volatile election season, the report ‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence outlines the steps social media companies like…
Economies of Violence: Petroleum, Politics and Community in the Niger Delta, Nigeria …the varieties of violence engendered by oil, to elaborate the ways in which resources, territoriality and identity can constitute forms of rule, and understand the genesis of economies of violence…
Does Prosecution Reduce Violence Between Intimate Partners? Objectives: This research uses existing data from prior studies to assess the relationship between the prosecution, conviction, and sentencing of offenders and repeat intimate partner violence. A secondary focus is…
A Sea of Blood and Tears: Ethnicity, Identity and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Volhynia, Ukraine 1941-44 …can inform future studies of ethnic and political violence in borderland regions beyond Ukraine as well as contribute to discussions in genocide studies and social scientific research on political violence….
Drug Violence, Fear of Crime, and the Transformation of Everyday Life in the Mexican Metropolis My dissertation, “Drug Violence, Fear of Crime and the Transformation of Everyday Life in the Mexican Metropolis,” is an ethnography of how and why increased criminal violence and fear have…
From Coltan to Cattle: Unearthing Violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo …shape instances of violence. The DRC is a particularly relevant case study given the multiple natural resources at play in past and current “wars” and the significance particular resources have…
