The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2020 Dissertation Fellows Meet the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation 2020 Dissertation Fellows. These emerging scholars, rigorously chosen through a global peer-review competition, are studying topics addressing violence between intimate partners, neighbors, and governments…
The Environmental Making of Sendero Luminoso: Drought, Famine, and Revolution in the Peruvian Andes, 1983–1986 …region. As seasons of harvest failures and political violence collided and made a socioenvironmental catastrophe, thousands of villagers came to experience the intertwined wrath of nature and the militarization of…
Police Special Operations and Armed Criminal Groups in Rio de Janeiro …besides the inefficiency of police raids in lowering crime rates, the lack of democratic controls over police use of lethal force contributes to corruption and violence. Moved by the perspective…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Byron Boston to Board and Sees Retirements of Tina Bennett and William G. Bardel …violence in its many forms.” Mr. Boston’s career in finance and investment spans more than four decades and includes building two successful public companies. In 2004, Mr. Boston launched Sunset…
“Old Hatreds Die Hard: ‘New’ Developments in Far Right Extremism”: Dr. Pete Simi …how we can work to prevent future violence. Filled with powerful case studies, interviews, and first-person accounts, the book explains the differences between various hate groups, then shows how white…
“Why Have Homicide Rates Gone up Since 2015? A Historical Perspective”: Dr. Randolph Roth …that focuses on the degree to which modern and early modern societies have been successful at nation building. As he suggests, the fundamental requisites for low levels of violence are…
“Beyond the Crisis: Reimagining Migrant Protection” HFG’s June 29, 2023 Knowledge Against Violence Speaker Series event, “Beyond the Crisis: Reimagining Migrant Protection,” explored migrant rights and protections from the perspective of three scholars who study the…
Government Legitimacy, Social Solidarity, and American Homicide in Historical Perspective …which Americans kill each other. This report is the first offering in HFG’s Violence, Politics & Democracy initiative, a multi-year project examining how these phenomena interact in mature democracies to…
Fueling the Fires: How Corruption and Conflict Keep Each Other Burning (Photo by Prabin Ranabhat/Getty Images) “Is it possible to foster accountability and disrupt illicit economies without fueling violence?” On February 18, researchers Diana Chigas and Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church of Besa Global…
The Effect of Publicized Life Sentences, Death Sentences, and Executions on Homicide …sentences in efforts to control lethal violence. Publicized Executions: Abolitionist States. A second contribution was to test two alternative theoretical explanations for dips in homicide after a publicized execution. Publicized…
