…and disseminate knowledge against violence. We welcome your feedback. Let us know what you think by visiting our contact page.  Regards,  Daniel F. Wilhelm, President The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation…

In International Sanctions against Violent Actors, Dursun Peksen, Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis, examines the extent to which international sanctions affect political violence committed by state…

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…

…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…

…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…

…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’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….

…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…

…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…

…are falling across the map, in cities with different political leadership, housing and economic conditions, policing and prosecution strategies, violence reduction models, and levels of federal enforcement activity,” said Council on Criminal…