…and identity-based ties (e.g., familial) often supersede conflict-based identities that may pit people against one another. As such, we find that social ties matter tremendously and that, for many, rescuing…

…or high) strongly predicted units’ violence rates one year later (r= .78). Second, specific factors that strongly predicted future violence included a unit’s historical rates of violence; limited violence-relevant interventions;…

…at Wesleyan University, has devoted his career to the study of violence and American history. In an award-winning trilogy of books (Regeneration Through Violence, The Fatal Environment, and Gunfighter Nation),…

…our political divisions. It is perhaps best known for its Hidden Tribes project, which is based on a survey it completed with more than 8,000 Americans. Based on responses to…

…decide, and are able to control, minimize, or maximize violence; and the impact of political discourses and competition among different actors for the use of violence in modern war violence….

…level was not correlated to electoral violence; that incumbents committed the majority of electoral violence; and that the dynamics of prevote violence differed from postvote violence. Those findings were published…

…the contrary, we couldn’t see any end to the increase in violence, both in New York and nationally. The rise in violence, and homicides, in particular, had been very steep….

…the varieties of violence engendered by oil, to elaborate the ways in which resources, territoriality and identity can constitute forms of rule, and understand the genesis of economies of violence…

…Republicans. How real is the threat that polarization leads to violence in the real world?  There’s a difference between political violence and civil war. I don’t think civil war is…

…that shows it’s effective. We’re nowhere near making Cure Violence merit the label “evidence-based.” The problem with Cure Violence right now is that it has become a movement, as opposed…