HFG African Fellows at the African Studies Association of the UK …from timely issues of electoral and separatist violence to long-standing challenges, including intimate partner violence and transitional justice in post-conflict settings. Ahead of the ASAUK conference, HFG Program Officer and…
Ordinary Soldiers? A Case Study of the Nazi-Soviet War of Annihilation …combat record of the division reveals many examples of extreme violence. Within this case study, there were two primary research questions. First, in studying the division’s combat record, what examples…
In Practice Landing Page …diplomacy on conflicts like the war in Ukraine, the ways emerging diseases, including COVID-19 and avian flu, may bring both illness and violence, and how political violence can fuel migration….
Sophia Goodfriend Named 2025 Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge …Fellowship was established at Pembroke College in 2011. It is a three-year award supporting post-doctoral research that increases the understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence in the…
The Polarization Project …rifts among the American public. Can actual violence be far behind? The attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump suggests, tragically, that the answer may be “no.” While it may…
Social Dominance and Coercive Strategies of Resource Control in Children …that many high-status and well-accepted individuals (e.g., CEOs, political leaders) are modestly aggressive in their own right. Is aggression in some contexts adaptive and socially competent? A strategy-based evolutionary perspective…
Characteristics and Determinants of Global Homicide Crime Waves, 1946 to 1998 …since World War II. We defined crime booms as crime rates that increase rapidly and exhibit a positive sustained change in direction. Based on our definition, we found that twelve…
Australian War Crimes Trials of the 1980s and 1990s: Law Confronts the Shoah …to these obvious difficulties, the project, based in a detailed study of previously unavailable transcripts, investigative materials, and interviews with participants, reveals apparently irreconcilable differences in the approach to facts …
Toward a Transnational History of the Origins of World War I …slights to national honor could be at long last avenged. Europeans neither wanted nor welcomed this war. They consented to war based on the shared idea in all of the…
Two Ways Out: Christianity, Security, and Mara Salvatrucha This project, based on fieldwork in Guatemala, tracked the growing world of transnational street gangs from the perspective of gang ministry. These criminal organizations originated among Central American immigrants in…
