Violence and Dysphoria: The Villagization of Kinshasa and the Role of Healers …pray?,” entire neighborhoods have come to address one another no longer in terms evocative of their haunting memories of shattered worlds and senseless history, but in terms of dignity, common…
Throwing “Paper Stones”: Argentina’s Institutional Collapse …its history. The crisis brought with it the succession of five different presidents in a week, and an extremely fragile political system. In addition, it provoked a serious increase in…
The Violent Life of Bruna Veríssimo: An Experimental Ethnographic Biography of a Homeless Brazilian Youth …Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society (ed. by T. Hecht). A book manuscript is currently under review and an essay for another edited book is being written….
Constitutional Design: Many Architects, No Buildings This study concerns constitutional design for severely divided societies—the political institutions apt for peaceful coexistence or interethnic accommodation of groups with a history of antipathy that must nevertheless live together…
Latino Violence in the United States: A Five-City Study …and in the case of El Paso and San Diego, some of the longest history of Latino settlement in the United States. This process, in turn, should impact Latinos more…
Violent Territorialities and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in West Kalimantan Indonesia …landscapes that have emerged from this study have been layered landscapes, and their visibility or invisibility has much to do with the politics of representation and history. Violence in different…
The Association of Polymorphisms in Genes affecting Monoamine Neurotransmission with Aggressive Behavior in Schizophrenic Violent Individuals …a polymorphism in the gene encoding the enzyme catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) and aggression in schizophrenia. Patients with schizophrenia (SZ) were assessed for violent behavior using the Lifetime History of Aggression (LHA)…
Provisional Irish Republicans: Ten Years On …produced these people also provided them with an interpretation of Irish history that offers a wealth of evidence that their perspective—that the British will not leave Ireland unless they are…
Striving in the Path of God: Discursive Traditions on Jihad and the Cult of Martyrdom …internal influences shaping the contours of this discourse, and what bearing does that have on tracing the complex semantic and ideological history of the term and functions of jihad. Considerable…
Pakistan’s Educational System and Violence: Is There a Connection? …of news; knowledge of Islam, Pakistani history, United States politics, and international relations; the nature of violence; and judgments about justice and injustice, including justifications for violence. The survey rendered…
