The study explores dynamics of violence in Iran in relation to state formation after the 1979 revolution. It focuses on episodes of large-scale collective violence against political opponents and mass…

…the contrary, we couldn’t see any end to the increase in violence, both in New York and nationally. The rise in violence, and homicides, in particular, had been very steep….

…women during times of high political violence. When armed conflict-related violence decreases or during post-conflict times, however, high intimate partner violence levels persist. The Colombian armed conflict intensified adherence to…

This fall, the Foundation will host three Knowledge Against Violence conversations titled, “Global Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence.”  Gender-based violence, defined by the United Nations as “harmful acts directed at people…

…collective trauma created by the constant and implacable interpersonal violence in a marginalized neighborhood in the outskirts of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. We subject the experience of violence…

…in the United States are relatively rare. Sadly, in many other nations, a similar incident of political violence—however awful and unwelcome—might feel far less exceptional. With support from The Harry…

…on one kind of violence. Why not just move over to a different type of violence?” This was around 2000. And then 9/11 happens. Pinkerton had allowed me to carry…

The HFG research and subsequent book, Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa, is an attempt to think about the implications of pervasive spiritual insecurity for the postapartheid democratic state…

…that it was permissible to conduct physical violence. But both Democrats and Republicans thought that 50 percent of the other side would condone physical violence. So we have this very…