“The Long History of Anti-Asian Violence in the US”: Dr. Beth Lew-Williams …of Chinese immigrants. Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration policies incited this violence and how the violence, in turn, provoked new exclusionary policies. Ultimately, Lew-Williams argues, Chinese expulsion and exclusion…
Contested Narratives: A Genesis of State Violence in Post-Revolutionary Iran (1979-1988) The study explores dynamics of violence in Iran in relation to state formation after the 1979 revolution. It focuses on episodes of large-scale collective violence against political opponents and mass…
Violent Profits: The Political Economy of Electoral Violence …election violence or to be threatened with violence. Using a multimethod strategy combining in-depth interviews and large-scale surveys, this project shows how business actors adapt to the use of violence…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2020 Distinguished Scholars …collection of violence topics, including those involving gender, religion, ethnicity, prisons, policing, social media, intergroup attitudes, conflict resolution, and post-war societies. TOP FROM LEFT: SMADAR BEN-NATAN, KATHERINE BRUCE-LOCKHART, ANKUR DATTA,…
“Illiberal Ideas Are Having a Negative Effect on Our Political Culture”: A Conversation with Thomas Main …man, talk about violence. He says that aggression should always be met with aggression. That logic dictates that any failure to respond to violence with even more violence is only…
When Militaries Turn Against Authoritarians: Lessons from Tunisia and the Arab Spring …ability to project success as a fait accompli, Gallopin identifies two dominant considerations that arise in the moment when members of armed forces must decide to either commit violence in…
HFG Welcomes its 2024 Emerging Scholars …political extremism and paramilitaries in the US and abroad, the treatment of gender violence in Chile’s justice system, the use of political rhetoric to undercut democratic movements in autocracies, the…
Beijing-Seoul Families and Neighborhoods Study …the expected relationships between collective efficacy and family violence, but do show relationships between the PI’s informal social control measures and family violence. Based on the promising findings from the…
How Emerging Diseases Can Spread Conflict and Violence …Scholar. Koren is an applied political economist specializing in conflict, political violence, and economic development. This article was written by Robin Campbell, a writer and communications strategist based in Baltimore,…
HFG Distinguished Scholars …George Washington University), Battle Scars: Violence and the Middle Eastern Warscape Gail Super (Sociology, University of Toronto), Community-Based Violence in Spaces of Rural Precarity: A Case Study of the Xhora…
