When We Torture: Moral and Pragmatic Arguments For and Against Torture, and Their Effect on Public Support For Redressing Past and Preventing Future Injustice Violence can take many forms, and it can vary in scale and intensity. This research project focuses on one specific type of violence that is usually perpetrated against a relatively…
On Traumatic Modernities: Forced Migration and Nakh Cultural Memory Along Caucasus Borderlands …Asia. My conversations with local scholars in Georgia and throughout the Caucasus enable me to probe the ongoing legacies of the violence that constitutes forced migration. These findings emerge from…
At the Crossroads …community violence in New York and other cities through in-depth interviews with leading researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and advocates. Read More In the 1970s and 1980s, New York City was an…
‘Democracy Is Something We Have to Fight For’: A Conversation with Suzette Brooks Masters Suzette Brooks Masters Is polarization in the United States laying the groundwork for political violence? It is not a simple question to answer. Affective polarization—the tendency of partisans to hate…
Our new look …the talented team at Design for Progress, support new programming, including our expanded HFG Speaker Series, new multi-media projects, such as our Violence, Politics & Democracy initiative, and new ways…
A New Kind of War: A History of the 1946–1949 Greek Civil War …to the organization of multiple clandestine organizations that waged a low-key form of warfare against the left, which responded with its own brand of brutal counterviolence. Ultimately the outbreak of…
Unsolved Shootings: Why and How to Boost Clearance Rates …a strong argument for improving police performance in investigating serious crimes of violence,” Cook writes in Unsolved Shootings: Why and How to Boost Clearance Rates. “What is at stake is…
“Soldiers in Exile”: Dr. Godfrey Maringira …in which Zimbabwean soldiers existed, Godfrey Maringira reveals the everyday victimisation and violence of the barracks. Exploring such events as the imposition of the Defense Act, the desertion of soldiers,…
“Understanding the Drivers of Violent Extremism in Africa” Panel …of violent extremism on the African continent, the role of the state, and the dichotomy between victims and perpetrators of violence in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Mozambique….
Mass Shootings: Causes and Prevention …to high-capacity weapons, building more effective early-warning systems, and creating a reliable process for data collection could greatly reduce the frequency and toll of this very American type of violence….
