HFG Welcomes its 2026 Distinguished Scholars …Monterrey), Organized Crime and Religious Leaders: Understanding Victimization and Resilience Marc Lynch (Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University), Battle Scars: Violence and the Middle Eastern Warscape Gail Super…
Race/Ethnicity, Space, and Political Culture: A Comparative Study of Collective Violence in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles …within the historical context of race relations in the United States in the twentieth century. I also proposed to examine the differential roles played by racial segregation in the three…
The Political-Criminal Nexus: Emerging Violent Threat to Governability in the Twenty-First Century …posed by the PCNs and how and why political-criminal relationships are formed and maintained. Nor has there been systematic study of policy prescriptions for disrupting existing relationships or methods for…
Intrahousehold Income Inequality and Conflict: Testing an Economic Model of Domestic Violence in Kerala, India …relationship, researchers would ideally allow the male-female income differential to vary randomly across a group of households that are otherwise alike in every respect. Our study site consists of 23…
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa …in South Africa. It seeks to chart the contours of danger and uncertainty arising from people’s relations with invisible forces acting in the world, to examine how awareness of these…
Youthful Martyrdom and Heroic Criminality: Aggression and the Formation of Youth Groups in Northern Nigeria …took the relations of ‘yan daba and Hisbah as a central concern since, in Kano State, these groups enacted violence to force the immediate implementation of Shari’ah Law. ‘Yan daba…
The Middle Eastern Military as a Factor in Domestic and Regional Conflict and Violence: A Case Study of the Iranian Army …in regional relations. It seems, firstly, that political tendencies within the Iranian army were always more variegated than has been assumed; that communist or Tudah party affiliations among individual officers…
An Anatomy of Sectarian Violence: Jews and Christians in Premodern Poland …and economic relations, as it moved the sacred to the public arena of courts. Far more than the Church’s efforts to educate the laity, the lay courts’ classification of Catholic…
The Chinese Must Go: The Violent Birth of American Border Control …the matter into their own hands. Fearing the spread of mob violence, U.S. policymakers redoubled their efforts to keep the Chinese out, overhauling U.S. immigration law and transforming diplomatic relations…
Christian Martyrs and the Making of an Islamic Society in the Post-Conquest Period …scattered across the Middle East, in particular, Christians. The dissertation argues that violence played an important role in regulating relations between the two communities, but it was limited in its…
