Based on a review of more than 400 social science studies, a new HFG-funded report from the  NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights details how social media use…

…(Sociology, University of Toronto), Community-Based Violence in Spaces of Rural Precarity: A Case Study of the Xhora Mouth Area in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa Megan Turnbull (International Affairs,…

My research is about violence after war. Contrary to received wisdom, violent societies are not a natural outcome of war. Violence is not ubiquitous in post-war countries. It does not…

…creating a foundation to support scholarly research on violence. As our grantees always do, the 2024 Distinguished Scholars are investigating violence in its varied forms—crime, terrorism, domestic violence, political ideology…

As shocking events in the United States and elsewhere show, political violence is real. The scope of the threat is unclear, as are the motivations that drive people to harm…

…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…

…caste-like ethnic relationships, poverty, illiteracy, and lack of infrastructure. This project addresses these biases by developing a victim-based violence data series for South Carolina, extending from the end of Reconstruction…

…have political violence in the way we did in the sixties. But we need to be concerned not just about actual violence, but about threats of violence as well. Threats…

Photo: Sygma via Getty Images For many people living in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the possibility of interethnic violence was inconceivable. Until it wasn’t.  Conflict between conationals…

…the book will document and analyze the forms, contexts, and representations of violence, and how violence has reshaped access to and control over the agrarian environment. The violence cannot be…