…into and relabeled existing local patterns of violence and conflict. The level and amount of violence increased dramatically with the Klan, but the perpetrators and victims of violence largely remained…

…violence against civilians. Thus, even before mass violence begins, certain communities are transformed into amoral communities, where the definition of crime becomes altered and violence is justified as a form…

…Reduction Project, in which you invite a variety of people to explain how they would reduce violence.  Are there good ideas out there that you’ve been unearthing beyond Cure Violence…

…legitimacy or illegitimacy of violence. I analyze the complex and contentious relationship between religion and violence during the foundational decades between 1920 and 1960. My historical and sociological exploration of…

My HFG-supported project explores violence within the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities of the kingdom of Valencia (Spain) as well as violence between these communities in order to shed new…

…election violence or to be threatened with violence. Using a multimethod strategy combining in-depth interviews and large-scale surveys, this project shows how business actors adapt to the use of violence…

…man, talk about violence. He says that aggression should always be met with aggression. That logic dictates that any failure to respond to violence with even more violence is only…

…can have a powerful impact on the rate of human violence. This finding lends credence to the notion that human violence is a solvable problem and is not an intrinsic…

…a link between the kinds of police violence that we’ve been talking about and the gun violence that we see in the streets of American cities?  I think that they’re…

…level of violence against public figures, followed by Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama, with Costa Rica and Belize having the lowest levels of violence against public figures. Violence increased…