Digital Aftershocks: Online Mobilization and Violence in the United States …Aftershocks: Online Mobilization and Violence in the United States traces how far-right, far-left, violent Islamist, and nihilistic violent extremist communities use cross-platform strategies to recruit followers, justify violence, and sustain…
Serotonin and Impulsive Aggression: Not So Fast This article appeared in The Biology of Aggression, the Spring 1999 edition of The HFG Review, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation publication that examined topics of violence in depth. The…
HFG Chair Peter O. Lawson-Johnston Passes Gavel to Longtime Board Member Peter Lawson-Johnston II …tenure, Lawson-Johnston oversaw the development of HFG from a small, family-led foundation to the preeminent philanthropic organization advancing multidisciplinary research on violence that has funded nearly 1,700 grantees in scores…
Dying to Save: Youth Vigilantism, Civilian Joint Task Force, and Counterterrorism in Nigeria How do civilian communities in contemporary armed rebellions create order in a context of pervasive insecurity? What are the consequences of civilian self-protection strategies and order-making for violence in general…
Economic Shocks, Social Insurance, and Violent Crimes: Evidence from Brazil …domestic violence by 56%. Unemployment benefits have an opposite effect on domestic violence than on any other type of crime; they increase the probability of domestic violence due to longer…
Violence and the Pandemic: Urgent Questions for Research …future violence trends are the topic of Violence and the Pandemic: Urgent Questions for Research by Manuel Eisner (University of Cambridge and University of Zurich) and Amy Nivette (Utrecht University)….
Intimate Violence in Community Context …intimate homicide rates and self-reports of nonlethal partner violence at the individual level. However, collective efficacy exerts a more powerful regulatory effect on nonlethal violence in neighborhoods where the tolerance…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Distinguished Scholars …are exploring important problems of violence in the world. The Distinguished Scholars are investigating a myriad of issues, including violence against women, policing and crime, radicalization, and the environmental parameters…
Welcome to Our 2025 HFG Distinguished Scholars …varied in the violence problems they’re studying and the sites of that violence,” said Joel Wallman, Director of Research at HFG. “Supporting their work reflects the Foundation’s belief that reducing…
Murder by Structure: How Street Gangs Built the Great American City …of violence we see today rest upon networks of violence and relationships built over nearly a century. Understanding and doing something about violence today, then, requires us to not only…
