HFG Launches Multi-year Initiative on Violence, Politics, and Democracy …certain to create an environment in which political violence thrives. Does this view accurately describe the relationship between polarization and violence? Does violence increase when perceptions of government legitimacy wane?…
The Diffusion of Lethal and Nonlethal Violence in Gang Networks …of gun and gang violence. The most important drivers of gang violence appear to be the ways in which reciprocity and status-seeking violence unfold within such conflict networks. This project’s…
“Intimate Partner Violence and Armed Conflict in Colombia”: Dr. Maria Restrepo-Ruiz …women during times of high political violence. When armed conflict-related violence decreases or during post-conflict times, however, high intimate partner violence levels persist. The Colombian armed conflict intensified adherence to…
“We’re Losing a Sense of Accountability”: A Conversation with Richard Aborn …I think the expression that we have a “problem” with violence is really an understatement. I think we are now getting close to a crisis of violence. It is obviously…
The Dynamics of Violence in Civil War: Evaluating the Impact of Ethnicity on Violence …violence is really ethnic; for, ethnic violence is more than violence between individuals of different ethnicities. The main obstacle in answering this question is methodological: comparing ethnic and nonethnic wars…
‘A Healthy Democracy Requires Social Trust’: A Conversation with Ilana Redstone …and should, think about who we are primarily along the lines of race, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, etc., and that we can lean into these identities basically as…
Operation Fly Trap: Police Suppression and Gang Violence …series of ongoing life struggles. Non-gang violence during this period rose in equal measure to the decline in gang violence, leaving the overall number of violent crimes in the targeted…
Dynamics of Violence in Conventional Civil Wars What explains violence against civilians in civil wars? Why do armed groups use violence in some places but not in neighboring places with similar characteristics? Why do they kill more…
Violence Against Public Figures Fuels Central American Immigration …these findings. This article is based on research by Laura Blume of the University of Nevada, Reno (Distinguished Scholar 2020-21) Cataloging Murder: Tracking Violence Against Public Figures in Central America….
