‘A Healthy Democracy Requires Social Trust’: A Conversation with Ilana Redstone …let’s do it. Let’s dig in. After the violence in Christchurch, New Zealand, you wrote a piece saying that celebrating viewpoint diversity doesn’t mean that we have to tolerate extremist…
Understanding Violence and Incarceration in Africa: Evidence from British Colonies and Postcolonial States …violence in colonial prisons, to examine and explain the similarities and differences between the penal systems of British African colonies, and to trace the long-term legacies of these violent systems…
Valuable Resources: Women, Conflict, and Modern Mining in Rwanda …and physical violence against women in extractive industries. Through feminist political ecology’s intersectionality framework, the study asked how cooperatives might improve women’s outcomes: financial gains, gender violence reduction, and legal…
Territorial Masquerades: Violence, Paramilitaries, and Frontier State Formation in Colombia …standard explanation—across public, policy, and academic circles—of why Colombia’s frontier regions are so wracked by violence. Although Ballvé takes this locally oft-repeated claim seriously, he demonstrates that Urabá is more…
“Conflict and Climate: How Global Warming Leads to Global Violence” …how these factors contribute to violence often attributed to climate change. The speakers challenged dominant narratives about climate-induced conflict; noted the impact of war and conflict on the environment itself,…
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…
HFG Journalism Fellowships and Awards …a new way to earn money after selling papers for 42 years. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) As a research organization dedicated to understanding violence in all forms, the Foundation…
Race/Ethnicity, Space, and Political Culture: A Comparative Study of Collective Violence in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles …Political Culture: A Comparative Study of Collective Violence in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.” That book incorporated brief accounts of the above-mentioned race riots and set the stage for…
The Militarization of Nuer and Dinka Community Life: A Comparative Field Study of the Transformative Impact of Sudan’s Unresolved War …the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). The tremendous surge in Nuer/Dinka violence precipitated by that event mercifully came to an end in January 2002, after the SPLA was reunited by…
The Nazi Concentration Camps …Much of my work focuses on daily practices of violence. I have examined the transition from the improvised abuse in the early camps to the structured violence of later years,…
