Following Jane Jacobs’s observations of the role of “public characters” as a mechanism for heading off city crime and street violence, we asked just how such individuals actually do their…

…over information about the possibility of an amnesty was a critical cause of the resilience of the Nore mass mutiny. Violence was used to maintain order through corporal punishment but…

…its last imperial dynasty. What does this study tell us about human violence and warfare in general? For one, it suggests that countries that achieve too much military success, such…

…rival internal polities, and fratricidal struggles over internal order and the nature of capitalist development. Almost always, these trials involved collective violence with firearms. Yet across the Americas, guns were…

…levels of violence wielded against civilians. Since the conflict subsided in this region, villages have also revealed variation in their community reconstruction patterns. In some villages, residents worked together to…

…and misperceptions became sources of great tension and later catastrophic physical violence. A mere 15 months after what should have been a “second independence,” the outcome was Africa’s Great War….

Three Things That Work to Prevent, Reduce, or Stop Violence…

Meet grantees studying violence, women and HIV in Tanzania, and post-war Liberian expatriates in the U.S…

Between 2000 and 2005, HFG hosted more than 15 research gatherings examining topics in violence across the globe….

Research for Understanding and Reducing Violence, Aggression, and Dominance…