Victimhood in a Time of Crisis: Muslims and the Riots of 2020 in New Delhi, India …crises. Some respondents who faced physical violence and had long medical recoveries continue to face difficulties. Victimhood in Public Sites: Law and Media: Urdu-language media emphasize losses and suffering of…
Police Special Operations and Armed Criminal Groups in Rio de Janeiro …and unavoidable means of law enforcement. Police raids in favelas are known to be the cause of thousands of civilian casualties, the disruption of the routine of favela residents, and…
How Emerging Diseases Can Spread Conflict and Violence …in law enforcement or military operations, creating a vacuum that nonstate forces fill. In Nigeria, for example, a massive increase in abductions by armed groups during the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed…
Digital Aftershocks: Online Mobilization and Violence in the United States …behavior” said co-author Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat, Policy Advisor on Technology and Law at NYU Stern. The report is part of HFG’s Violence, Politics & Democracy initiative, a multi-year project examining how these…
One Year Later: Reflections on How Syrian Opposition Groups United to Oust Assad …Islam. Similarly, the Nusra Front and HTS’s commander, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, gained support with the promise to unite Syria under Islamic law. He now stands as Syria’s interim president under…
“Ordinary People Are Really Not All That Extreme”: A Conversation with Matthew Levendusky …number of actors who were deeply involved in politics already. In the school district where I grew up, it was being driven by the daughter-in-law of the state senator from…
Super Cops, Extrajudicial Killings, and Popular Imaginaries of Policing in Facebook Groups in Nairobi …were celebrated for their ruthlessness. The modus operandi across these stories was similar, with a lone cop acting outside the boundaries of law, dispensing on-the-spot justice to suspected violent criminals….
Forging Informal Citizenship in the Shadow of the State: Armed Nonstate Actors and Migrant Incorporation in the Colombian and Mexican Borderlands …settlements, does not necessarily produce a higher level of security for the migrants or their property. In contrast, state policies that grant greater powers to the military and law enforcement…
HFG Welcomes its 2026 Distinguished Scholars …Response to Sexual Assault in the US Military Sam Erkiletian (Political Science, Independent scholar), Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response at the Tactical Level: Evidence from Ukraine (2022–2024) Jeffrey Fagan (Law,…
HFG Distinguished Scholars …from Ukraine (2022–2024) Jeffrey Fagan (Law, Columbia University), Reducing Civilian Injuries in Police Encounters: A Quasi-Experimental Approach James Alan Fox (Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University) and Jacob Stowell (Criminology…
