The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2021 Emerging Scholars …Rights in Mexico Mariana Carvalho (University of California, San Diego). The Causes and Consequences of Political Assassinations Madeleine Hamlin (Syracuse University). Policing the Projects: Crime, Carcerality, and Chicago Public Housing…
Knowledge Against Violence Speaker Series …of scholars and practitioners, seek to illuminate the causes, manifestations, and responses to violence in areas such as war, crime, terrorism, intimate relationships, climate instability, and political extremism. The 90-minute…
“We Need to Value Black Lives in the Same Way That We Value Others”: A Conversation with Kami Chavis …in reducing gun violence along with the Joyce Foundation, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, and the Urban Institute. That report included a survey. Half of Black respondents…
“Intimate Partner Violence and Armed Conflict in Colombia”: Dr. Maria Restrepo-Ruiz Dr. Maria Restrepo-Ruiz Dr. Maria (Mayte) Restrepo-Ruiz is a Research Associate with the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut. She completed her PhD work in the…
“Old Hatreds Die Hard: ‘New’ Developments in Far Right Extremism”: Dr. Pete Simi …of Sociology at Chapman University. Dr. Simi’s presentation examined the current U.S. socio-political landscape through a discussion of his work on white supremacist groups, the rise of far-right extremism, and…
“Sex Work: Does Legitimization Mitigate Violence?” …seek to illuminate the causes, manifestations, and responses to violence in areas such as war, crime, terrorism, intimate relationships, climate instability, and political extremism. Watch Panel I: “Weapons of War:…
“Reckoning with Intimate-Partner Violence after the Pandemic” …violence in areas such as war, crime, terrorism, intimate relationships, climate instability, and political extremism. Watch Panel I: “Weapons of War: Examining Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Zones” Watch Panel III:…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2024 Distinguished Scholars …creating a foundation to support scholarly research on violence. As our grantees always do, the 2024 Distinguished Scholars are investigating violence in its varied forms—crime, terrorism, domestic violence, political ideology…
Dying to Save: Youth Vigilantism, Civilian Joint Task Force, and Counterterrorism in Nigeria …governance in the context of African counterinsurgencies. Weak states are ordinarily not in a position to provide security and other political goods on their own. Given their local embeddedness and…
Insurgent Fragmentation and State Attachment in the Syrian Civil War …costly infighting, most notably when the so-called Islamic State broke away to establish a rival political-religious project in 2013–14. Repeated foreign-backed attempts to unify Syria’s rebel factions behind a central…
