“We’re Losing a Sense of Accountability”: A Conversation with Richard Aborn …responsibility. Decisions should be made on an individual basis. If we’re starting to make those decisions because of fear of political repercussions or out of a desire to be politically…
Surer Mohamed Named 2021 Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge …political violence and its aftermath in African urban spaces. My research specifically focuses on the politics of post-conflict urban reconstruction in Mogadishu, which is an under-researched part of the political…
HFG Welcomes its 2024 Emerging Scholars …political extremism and paramilitaries in the US and abroad, the treatment of gender violence in Chile’s justice system, the use of political rhetoric to undercut democratic movements in autocracies, the…
‘We’re Ignoring Our Common Values and Interests’: A Conversation with Monica Harris …Indeed, there is some research to suggest that the very creation of red and blue-colored voting maps leads people to overestimate the extent of American political polarization. Monica Harris, the…
Geographic Perspectives on the Indonesian Killings of 1965–66 in Central and East Java …hundred thousand, these killings comprised the single most traumatic political event in the history of independent Indonesia. Directed against people affiliated with the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), the violence killed…
The Czechoslovak Arms Industry and the Changing Face of Global Warfare, 1859–1989 …First and Second World Wars. In doing so, it sheds light on the evolution of the radical political left in Central Europe and the various ways that leftist intellectuals understood…
In the Name of Christ: Religious Violence and Its Legitimacy in Mexico (1920–2020) …newspapers, religious publications, and secondary literature on religious violence in Latin America and beyond, my research explores the theological, political, and cultural drivers that contributed to Catholics’ understanding of the…
The Bitter Aloe Project: Building a Prosopographic Understanding of Apartheid-Era Violence Through Advanced Machine Learning …goal is to open new avenues for research into political violence in South Africa during the apartheid era by bringing new forms of legibility to this massive archive through the…
Targeted Recruitment: Explaining Why Certain Clans Join and Eschew Al-Shebab in Somalia …picture, where historical, sociopolitical, and cultural factors significantly influence individuals’ decisions to join the militant group. Clans like the Rahanweyn (Digil and Mirifle), despite having stable political and economic conditions,…
State Practices, National Identity and Anti-Immigrantism in Western Democracies This study critically examines the various practices of anti-immigrantism in three Western democracies—the United States, the United Kingdom, and France—within the context of globalization. The study draws upon the works…
