“The Problem Comes from the Top”: A Conversation with Yphtach Lelkes …be negatively correlated with violence—generally you find that the people who are the most politically engaged are also the ones who are least likely to support political violence. In America,…
Women’s Employment Status, Coercive Control, and Intimate Partner Violence in Mexico …the relation between women’s employment and the risk of intimate partner violence have also been mixed. Some studies find greater violence toward women who are employed, whereas others find the…
“None of Us Dared Say Anything”: Mass Killing in a Bosnian Community During World War II and the Postwar Culture of Silence …memory of local violence. Here, local-level analysis revealed how violence created new, under-researched dynamics of nationalism, in which daily incidents triggered traumatic memories of violence that led to momentary eruptions of…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2023-2024 African Fellows …Historical Narratives: The IPOB Question Jacob Tagarirofa (University of the Free State, Centre for Gender and Africa) ‘Invisible Objects’ and Everyday Violence in a Post-war Community: A Posthuman Analysis of…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Announces Its 2023 Emerging Scholars …Groups Apekshya Prasai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Gendered Processes of Rebellion: Understanding Strategies for Organizing Violence Matthew Schissler (University of Michigan). Cultivating Islamophobia: Fear, Revulsion, and a Buddhist Movement Against…
“It’s Time to Be Very Afraid”: A Conversation with Peter Coleman …and ethnic violence, and then at some point really just stopped and pivoted and took a different direction. There are peaceful societies around the world that moved away from violence….
“You Have to Crack Down on Gun Offenders”: A Conversation with Peter Moskos …Reduction Project, in which you invite a variety of people to explain how they would reduce violence. Are there good ideas out there that you’ve been unearthing beyond Cure Violence…
“Ordinary People Are Really Not All That Extreme”: A Conversation with Matthew Levendusky …support for violence in a survey. The problem with political violence isn’t that there’s a significant percentage of the public who think violence is acceptable … The problem is really…
Entertaining, Informing, Discussing: How do Media Spread Messages of Peace and Violence? …radio program has mixed effects; we only find an association between treatment effects and perceived partner agreement with respect to attitudinal persuasion. Finally, the gender of participants and the gender…
Nationalism and Violence in Two Post-Soviet Republics: Azerbaijan and Moldova …by James Fearon and Pieter van Houten, based on Rogers Brubaker’s “triadic configuration,” is also tested. This theory relies on a commitment logic, and hypothesizes secessionist violence where minority groups…
