War and Economic Development in Vietnam and Sierra Leone …and famine crises. There is currently a large literature on the conditions that lead to the outbreak of armed violence, but the long-term economic impacts of war remain relatively understudied…
The Farm Killings …landed and their tenants was being renegotiated by a combination of cunning, wits, and violence, and that the murder was an extreme and tragic moment in this process of renegotiation….
Sherman was Right: The Experience of AEF Soldiers in the Great War …that the violence of the Western Front broke the soldier. I was wrong. While some did psychologically succumb to the horrors of combat, the majority endured, and were proud of…
King George’s Generals: How the British Army Lost America, 1774-1781 …research supported a chapter entitled “An End to Empire? British Strategy in the American Revolution and Making Peace” in Justifying Revolution: Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American Revolution (Oklahoma: June 2018)….
When We Torture: Moral and Pragmatic Arguments For and Against Torture, and Their Effect on Public Support For Redressing Past and Preventing Future Injustice Violence can take many forms, and it can vary in scale and intensity. This research project focuses on one specific type of violence that is usually perpetrated against a relatively…
On Traumatic Modernities: Forced Migration and Nakh Cultural Memory Along Caucasus Borderlands …Asia. My conversations with local scholars in Georgia and throughout the Caucasus enable me to probe the ongoing legacies of the violence that constitutes forced migration. These findings emerge from…
At the Crossroads …community violence in New York and other cities through in-depth interviews with leading researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and advocates. Read More In the 1970s and 1980s, New York City was an…
‘Democracy Is Something We Have to Fight For’: A Conversation with Suzette Brooks Masters Suzette Brooks Masters Is polarization in the United States laying the groundwork for political violence? It is not a simple question to answer. Affective polarization—the tendency of partisans to hate…
A New Kind of War: A History of the 1946–1949 Greek Civil War …to the organization of multiple clandestine organizations that waged a low-key form of warfare against the left, which responded with its own brand of brutal counterviolence. Ultimately the outbreak of…
“Soldiers in Exile”: Dr. Godfrey Maringira …in which Zimbabwean soldiers existed, Godfrey Maringira reveals the everyday victimisation and violence of the barracks. Exploring such events as the imposition of the Defense Act, the desertion of soldiers,…
