Homicide in North Italy: Bologna, 1600–1700 …to condemn participants in vendetta to death, they found themselves made party to revenge violence. The inability of the court to effectively police interpersonal violence is indicative of a developing…
Dominating a Continent: Retribution and Forcible Confinement in North America …how changes in military infrastructure impacted day-to-day violence in areas that recently experienced warfare; and 3. the ways that violence impacted patterns of incarceration in Saskatchewan following the 1885 Resistance….
The 1947 Taiwanese Rebellion: Last Battle of the Sino-Japanese War? …seventeenth-century Qing conquest. This subversive violence was embedded in an endemic competitive violence exacerbated by the fact that Taiwan was a frontier society. State-building efforts at the end of the…
A Military History of East Africa in the Nineteenth Century …of traditional organized violence in East Africa, as well as the analysis and organization of that data in anticipation of writing the manuscript itself. The goal has been to explore…
Seeing Like a Peacebuilder: An Ethnography of International Intervention …approaches to collecting information on violence strongly impact the effectiveness of intervention efforts. A number of interveners challenge the dominant modes of thinking and acting. The publications based on this…
Our new look …insights based on HFG-funded research and projects. We believe the new site will aid our efforts to generate and disseminate knowledge against violence. We welcome your feedback. Let us…
One Year Later: Reflections on How Syrian Opposition Groups United to Oust Assad …his civilian name, Ahmad al-Sharaa. According to Lund, HTS members “were pretty extreme” in their promotion of violence against religious minorities in Syria, and against Western states in the early…
Drugs, Violence, and National Honor: British Foreign Policy and the Opium Crisis, 1833–1840 The first Opium War (1840–1842) was a defining moment in Anglo-Chinese relations, and since the 1840s the histories of its origins have tended to be straightforward narratives suggesting that the…
Political Violence, Military Conflict and Civil Unrest in Palestine: The Palestinian Police, the Fatah Tanzim and the “Al-Aqsa Intifada” This research project was originally undertaken with the aim of examining the roles played by the military and civilian police forces of the Palestinian Authority, and the popular militias (in…
