…political violence can have a corrosive effect.  According to political scientist Lilliana Mason, political violence amounts to a rejection of democracy. “If a person has used violence to achieve a…

…the Cure Violence model. Programs like Save Our Streets—that’s where I would put all my investments. I wanted to ask you about the state of Cure Violence research. It is…

…their everyday life and women’s vulnerability to violence. Structural violence contributes to gendered interpersonal violence both by causing it and by preventing society and victims from confronting it effectively. My…

…what I mean? And that’s just using police violence as an example. But there are other types of violence on the communal level that are always impacting people. Health disparities…

…who are disproportionately involved in individual violence, whereas it is often the best socialized who are involved in intergroup violence. Individual violence is represented in the statistics of violent crime:…

…and sentencing policies in explaining why similar cities have very different levels of violence. In teaching about violence, my objective is always to give my students a sense that violence…

…not reconcile politically rationalized violence with disproportionate excessive violence–its notion of political violence remained resolutely within an enlightenment framework. Amnesty applicants were thus indemnified for political justifications of human rights…

…reduce violence but harm people. You are advancing a kind of “do no harm” argument on behalf of Cure Violence. But do we know that it actually does what it…

…of gun and gang violence. The most important drivers of gang violence appear to be the ways in which reciprocity and status-seeking violence unfold within such conflict networks. This project’s…

…certain to create an environment in which political violence thrives. Does this view accurately describe the relationship between polarization and violence?  Does violence increase when perceptions of government legitimacy wane?…