Unearthing Sexual Violence in the Congo Free State and its Contemporary Significance …violence. While sexual violence was used as punishment or as extortion, it mainly functioned as a display of colonial power. I, therefore, argue sexual violence is not a direct result…
HFG Staff …Corporation, a family-owned entity in South Carolina. Ms. McCleery has served in leadership roles at several nonprofit organizations, including the Princeton Family Center for Education, Planned Parenthood of Northern, Central,…
Distinctive Characteristics of Marital Violence The study of violence has become increasingly specialized. Researchers and policy makers focus on such topics as domestic violence, sexual assault, or violence between strangers. Specialization can be beneficial, but…
“It’s Time to Be Very Afraid”: A Conversation with Peter Coleman …and ethnic violence, and then at some point really just stopped and pivoted and took a different direction. There are peaceful societies around the world that moved away from violence….
Targeting Institutional Risk Factors to Reduce Patient Violence …or high) strongly predicted units’ violence rates one year later (r= .78). Second, specific factors that strongly predicted future violence included a unit’s historical rates of violence; limited violence-relevant interventions;…
Controlling Violence in Wartime? Power Centralization and Economization of Republican Violence in the Spanish Civil War …decide, and are able to control, minimize, or maximize violence; and the impact of political discourses and competition among different actors for the use of violence in modern war violence….
Killing Campaigns: The Origins and Dynamics of Mass Violence in Africa …level was not correlated to electoral violence; that incumbents committed the majority of electoral violence; and that the dynamics of prevote violence differed from postvote violence. Those findings were published…
‘We’re Ignoring Our Common Values and Interests’: A Conversation with Monica Harris …I took a trip with my family to Montana and we stayed in a little town, just outside of Yellowstone. There’s this idea that people who don’t vote the way…
‘Stories about the Way the Nation Is Organized Are Dividing Us’: A Conversation with Richard Slotkin …at Wesleyan University, has devoted his career to the study of violence and American history. In an award-winning trilogy of books (Regeneration Through Violence, The Fatal Environment, and Gunfighter Nation),…
Programs …also conducts, commissions, and publishes original research on contemporary problems of violence. It organizes conferences, seminars, briefings, and other convenings to explore particular issues of violence. Priority is given to…
