The Bitter Aloe Project: Building a Prosopographic Understanding of Apartheid-Era Violence Through Advanced Machine Learning …goal is to open new avenues for research into political violence in South Africa during the apartheid era by bringing new forms of legibility to this massive archive through the…
Fear, Violence, and Restraint: Dynamics of Historical Change in the Tunisian Revolution …imminent prospect of using large-scale lethal violence against civilians. The moment represents a critical decision, manifested in collective doubt and uncertainty. This makes professional armed forces susceptible to cascades, which…
“Protectors or Predators: Understanding Urban Gang Violence Around the World” Panel Urban Gang Violence is widely synonymous with criminality and deviance. However, this conversation showcased examples from Pakistan, Brazil, Ecuador and DR Congo to complicate our understanding of gangs. From violent…
One Year Later: Reflections on How Syrian Opposition Groups United to Oust Assad …his civilian name, Ahmad al-Sharaa. According to Lund, HTS members “were pretty extreme” in their promotion of violence against religious minorities in Syria, and against Western states in the early…
Conspiracy Beliefs and Violence in American Culture: A Comparative Study of Black and White Separatism …equivalent of nation. These characteristics imply a potential for violence. While outwardly dissimilar, White and Black racial separatisms possess belief systems that are structurally similar. Each possesses a myth of…
Low Serotonin, Cholesterol, and Violent Behavior We conducted several studies evaluating the link between physiological factors and violence. First, we reviewed the literature linking low and lowered cholesterol to violence and to lowered brain serotonin activity….
Latino Violence in the United States: A Five-City Study …population growth of Latinos—soon to be the largest ethnic minority group in the U.S.—writers and researchers have promoted a discussion about urban violence that rests on beliefs, guesses, and opinions…
Youthful Martyrdom and Heroic Criminality: Aggression and the Formation of Youth Groups in Northern Nigeria …emergency” to justify their violence against nonconforming Muslims, Christians, and ‘yan Bori (adherents of a syncretic animist-Islamic religion); they, too, through violence have affectively placed themselves outside of Shari’ah Law….
An Anatomy of Sectarian Violence: Jews and Christians in Premodern Poland …religious crimes did not result in prosecution, much less in religious violence against Jews. This project establishes that religion and, sometimes, religious violence were used in establishing religious boundaries and…
An Education in Violence: Teaching and Learning to Kill in Central Texas …in which both the mind and body are trained to feel comfortable with, and need, guns. Cognitively, it means developing interpretative frames for thinking about guns, safety, and violence. Specifically,…
