“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…
Reluctance to Back Down Is No Reason to Fight …change rather than simply restraining a country’s foreign aggression; (2) there are few direct security interests involved; (3) the human and monetary costs are high; or (4) the fighting results…
Determinants of Infant Abuse and Neglect In Group-Living Macaques Infant abuse and neglect is not a phenomenon unique to the human species. In monkeys and apes, some mothers occasionally display violent behavior towards their infants and a few others…
When We Torture: Moral and Pragmatic Arguments For and Against Torture, and Their Effect on Public Support For Redressing Past and Preventing Future Injustice …to the moral and good in human nature may be worthwhile and effective after all, and may help strengthen the normative power of international humanitarian law. Broadly speaking, arguments against…
‘A Healthy Democracy Requires Social Trust’: A Conversation with Ilana Redstone …to democracy is calling the other side an existential threat to democracy. Human beings have two ways to resolve conflict: words and violence. I think that there’s a distinction to…
‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence …Paul M. Barrett of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights is part of HFG’s Violence, Politics & Democracy initiative, a multi-year project examining how these phenomena interact…
Military Medicine and the Changing Costs of War …save lives on the battlefield—has led to significant underestimation of the costs of modern war. The costs of war, both human and financial, are traditionally conceptualized in a time-bound manner….
The Bitter Aloe Project: Building a Prosopographic Understanding of Apartheid-Era Violence Through Advanced Machine Learning …a statement preserves the humanistic qualities of testimony that make it such a compelling and useful vessel for documenting human rights abuses. These techniques, for the first time, make such…
HFG African Fellows …promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of…
In Harm’s Way: Violence at the Urban Margins in Contemporary Argentina …ghettos, Brazilian favelas, Colombian comunas, and other relegated zones throughout the Americas. However, including other forms of physical aggression (sexual, domestic, and intimate) that take place inside and outside the…
