The Opioid Epidemic and Homicide The twenty-five-year epidemic of opioid misuse in the United States, which has taken at least 750,000 lives through overdose, has had another lethal toll: violence associated with the street market…
Forecasting US Crime Rates and the Impact of Reductions in Imprisonment: 1960-2025 …This report concerns national trends, updating the authors’ national-level HFG report released in 2020, before the social and economic disruptions of the pandemic and civil unrest over police violence interrupted…
‘There’s Nothing Inevitable or Permanent about Democracy’: A Conversation with Robert Talisse …and political violence? I think we should always be worried about the health and viability of democracy. I think it’s dangerous for people to think that democracy is a set…
In Search of Popular Sovereignty: British Rule and the Great Revolt (1936–39) in Palestine …the scope of official violence was obfuscated by the military and has been hidden from researchers. With their society in ruins and their movement crushed, the Palestinian people were deemed…
HFG Participates in the Paris Peace Forum …HFG’s support of The Paris Peace Forum is part of our continued commitment to the creation and dissemination of knowledge against violence in the United States and around the world….
Fueling the Fires: How Corruption and Conflict Keep Each Other Burning …and a major obstacle to building sustainable peace after a war ends. Likewise, political violence can create opportunities for corruption to fester and grow. A better understanding of how conflict…
Fighting and Bargaining Across Two Centuries of International Conflict …quantitative effort to track the ebbs and flows of violence during interstate wars. These data permit an analysis of the shifting fortunes of fighting both within and across almost a…
“Local or Global? The Future of Peacebuilding in Africa” On May 2, the academic and practitioner worlds converged in a sit-down conversation between Séverine Autesserre, professor and chair of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University and João Honwana,…
Words of War: Does Negotiation End or Extend Conflict? “In Words of War, Eric Min pulls back the curtain on when, why, and how belligerents negotiate while fighting.” – Cornell University Press Negotiations during war have long been used to…