International Sanctions against Violent Actors …governments to employ repressive means against their citizenry and rival groups. Sanctions are most likely to succeed when focused on the military capability of one or more parties to a civil…
‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence …energy and the environment, military procurement, and the civilian firearm industry. Barrett is the author of four critically acclaimed nonfiction books, the most recent of which are GLOCK: The Rise…
Geographic Perspectives on the Indonesian Killings of 1965–66 in Central and East Java …local military or pesantren (religious schools), whose youth organizations were often implicated in the violence, may have been most active. The project has produced a variety of new and specific…
Unearthing Sexual Violence in the Congo Free State and its Contemporary Significance …of the origins of sexual violence in the Congo Free State can be traced back to practices conducted by slave traders and early colonial military expeditions, gendered patterns emerge in…
In Search of Popular Sovereignty: British Rule and the Great Revolt (1936–39) in Palestine …the first secret revolutionary organization took hold among former peasants. The Great Revolt has primarily been seen in its paramilitary dimension as an armed insurrection, but as detailed in the…
Ordinary Soldiers? A Case Study of the Nazi-Soviet War of Annihilation …are more reflective of a front-line culture which could deviate from the military culture fostered by the divisional leadership. A further finding of my research was that soldiers and officers…
Violence Against Public Figures Fuels Central American Immigration …Investigative reporting has shown, moreover, that under JOH’s leadership, US military aid was not used to combat drug traffickers, but was instead wielded against political opponents. Violence against public figures—be…
Dominating a Continent: Retribution and Forcible Confinement in North America …how changes in military infrastructure impacted day-to-day violence in areas that recently experienced warfare; and 3. the ways that violence impacted patterns of incarceration in Saskatchewan following the 1885 Resistance….
HFG Welcomes its 2025 Emerging Scholars …Military in Authoritarian Regimes Jimmy Graham (New York University) Collective Violence and Peacebuilding: Evidence from South Sudan on Approaches to Reducing Collective Violence Rebekah Jones (University of California, Berkeley) Autonomous…
“Tensions Are Very High”: Ahead of Côte d’Ivoire’s Controversial Presidential Election, Peace and Reconciliation Remain Unfinished …had committed crimes, the trials effectively only prosecuted the losing side, while enabling impunity in President Ouattara’s camp. The courts only convicted pro-Gbagbo perpetrators and exempted many pro-Gbagbo military officials…
