HFG Program Assistant …The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) examines enduring and urgent problems of violence, such as war, crime, and human aggression. Through basic and applied research, we aim to understand the…
The Middle Eastern Military as a Factor in Domestic and Regional Conflict and Violence: A Case Study of the Iranian Army …Shah’s control over the army and the consolidation of his army-based regime’s control over the country. The third period examined the role played by the professional army under the Islamic…
An Anatomy of Sectarian Violence: Jews and Christians in Premodern Poland …religious crimes did not result in prosecution, much less in religious violence against Jews. This project establishes that religion and, sometimes, religious violence were used in establishing religious boundaries and…
Pathways to Conflict: The Impact of Climate Change on Violence In “Pathways to Conflict: How Climate Change Fuels Violence” based on her forthcoming HFG Research and Policy in Brief publication, professor Valli Koubi answered questions about the conditions under which…
Does Prosecution Reduce Violence Between Intimate Partners? Objectives: This research uses existing data from prior studies to assess the relationship between the prosecution, conviction, and sentencing of offenders and repeat intimate partner violence. A secondary focus is…
A Sea of Blood and Tears: Ethnicity, Identity and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Volhynia, Ukraine 1941-44 …can inform future studies of ethnic and political violence in borderland regions beyond Ukraine as well as contribute to discussions in genocide studies and social scientific research on political violence….
Drug Violence, Fear of Crime, and the Transformation of Everyday Life in the Mexican Metropolis My dissertation, “Drug Violence, Fear of Crime and the Transformation of Everyday Life in the Mexican Metropolis,” is an ethnography of how and why increased criminal violence and fear have…
From Coltan to Cattle: Unearthing Violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo …shape instances of violence. The DRC is a particularly relevant case study given the multiple natural resources at play in past and current “wars” and the significance particular resources have…
Surer Mohamed Named 2021 Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge …committed to funding scholarly research into the causes and amelioration of violence, especially urgent and contemporary problems of violence. For more information contact: Nyeleti Honwana, Program Officer info@hfg.org | 646.428.0976…
‘There Are Very Few Democracies That Are as Polarized as We Are Today’: A Conversation with Jennifer McCoy …if any, between pernicious polarization and political violence? First of all, like polarization, political violence has different definitions. If we take a broad definition, it’s violence that is either directed…
