…of Chinese immigrants. In The Chinese Must Go, I show how American immigration policies incited this violence and how the violence, in turn, provoked new exclusionary policies. Ultimately, I argue, Chinese…

…committed to funding scholarly research into the causes and amelioration of violence, especially urgent and contemporary problems of violence. For more information contact:  Nyeleti Honwana, Program Officer info@hfg.org | 646.428.0976…

…was given to research that addresses urgent, present-day problems of violence—what produces it, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it.   “Given the abundance of violence in the world,…

…Republicans. How real is the threat that polarization leads to violence in the real world?  There’s a difference between political violence and civil war. I don’t think civil war is…

…if any, between pernicious polarization and political violence? First of all, like polarization, political violence has different definitions. If we take a broad definition, it’s violence that is either directed…

…are doctoral candidates at African universities exploring important problems of violence related to the African continent. Fellows are investigating topics across ten African countries, including political extremism, gender-based violence, postcolonial…

…to make a significant contribution to illuminating an issue of violence. The 13 grantees were chosen through a rigorous peer-review competition and represent a wide range of scholarly disciplines. In…

…can enable or contribute to political strife. Amid a volatile election season, the report, ‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence,…

…the book will document and analyze the forms, contexts, and representations of violence, and how violence has reshaped access to and control over the agrarian environment. The violence cannot be…

…little evidence for physical violence among the prisoners, so common in the contemporary prison. Overall, it seems that such violence was mostly limited to prison camps, where the authorities delegated…