“There Are Clearly Spaces Where Law Enforcement Does Not Belong”: A Conversation with Tracie Keesee …promoting cultural change within American police departments. All told, Dr. Keesee has spent more than three decades thinking about police-community relations. Throughout her career, she has sought to advance what…
Our Work …with similar improvements in human relations. In doing so, Mr. Guggenheim, who had served as a naval aviator in both World Wars, sought to apply science to universal problems, such…
Violence and Dysphoria: The Villagization of Kinshasa and the Role of Healers …in single female inhabitants over the last years, however, reflects both men’s loss of status and their reluctance to engage in egalitarian marriage relations. As in many other parts of…
Drugs, Violence, and National Honor: British Foreign Policy and the Opium Crisis, 1833–1840 The first Opium War (1840–1842) was a defining moment in Anglo-Chinese relations, and since the 1840s the histories of its origins have tended to be straightforward narratives suggesting that the…
Economies of Violence: Petroleum, Politics and Community in the Niger Delta, Nigeria …local oil concessions. The presence and activities of the oil companies as part of the oil complex constitute a challenge to forms of community authority, interethnic relations, and local state…
When Comrades Go to War: Post-Liberation Movements, Elite Politics and the Internal Dynamics of Africa’s Great War Funding by the HFG enabled vital fieldwork in six African countries (Angola, Congo, Eritrea, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda), which helped detail the day-by-day, week-by-week chronicle of Africa’s Great War, a…
When the Rebels Win: State Power and Public Interests after Civil Wars How do rebel organizations govern when they gain control of an internationally recognized state? In my research project, I advanced an organization-level theory, arguing that an organization’s ideals and goals—in…
Welcome to Our 2025 HFG Distinguished Scholars …peacebuilders in Africa; the potential for improving interethnic relations in Israel by diversifying primary education teaching staffs; policing structures in Brazil, El Salvador, and Honduras; and early-warning systems for violence….
HFG Distinguished Scholars …related to many subjects, including, but not limited to, the following: War Crime Terrorism Family and intimate-partner relationships Climate instability and natural resource competition Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict Political…