Violence and Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Comparative Study of Kingston, Jamaica …city, which were founded with the support of the country’s two main political parties in the 1960s and 1970s, have become increasingly less political. My findings support this general observation…
HFG Distinguished Scholars …Transitional Justice Processes towards Taming Political Violence in Conflicting Democracies in Africa Roudabeh Kishi (Political Science, University of Denver). Improving Early Warning Models Outside of Conflict Zones: A Case Study…
The Political-Criminal Nexus: Emerging Violent Threat to Governability in the Twenty-First Century One of the more dangerous contemporary threats to the quality of life is the collaboration of the political establishment with the criminal underworld—the political-criminal nexus (PCN). These partnerships increasingly undermine…
Dynamics of Violence in Conventional Civil Wars …a recent trend in political science, the research design consists of systematically exploring intracountry variation (with large-n subnational data) and combining it with additional secondary evidence from other cases in…
“Why We Fight”: Dr. Chris Blattman …Random House: Why We Fight draws on decades of economics, political science, psychology, and real-world interventions to lay out the root causes and remedies for war, showing that violence is…
Remembering Violence and the Transvaluation of the Public Sphere …not reconcile politically rationalized violence with disproportionate excessive violence–its notion of political violence remained resolutely within an enlightenment framework. Amnesty applicants were thus indemnified for political justifications of human rights…
‘A Diffused Climate of Threats and Intimidation’: A Conversation with Daniel Stid Daniel Stid The problem of polarization has been on Daniel Stid’s mind for a while. Trained as a political scientist, Stid has spent time working in government (as a staffer…
‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence …can enable or contribute to political strife. Amid a volatile election season, the report, ‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence,…
HFG Launches Multi-year Initiative on Violence, Politics, and Democracy …as “violence” and when is it “political”? Does political polarization precipitate violence? Widely held, or at least broadly reported, presumptions contend that political polarization is increasing, unyielding, and all but…
“Tensions Are Very High”: Ahead of Côte d’Ivoire’s Controversial Presidential Election, Peace and Reconciliation Remain Unfinished …from amnesty. In his field research and interviews, Abugbilla found that this contributed to the sense that the trials were being used as political tools to punish political foes rather…
