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…
HFG Staff …equal justice, and the intersection of law and science. He serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Harvard Medical School and Roca Baltimore, a…
Political Economy of Memory: The Making, Unmaking and Remaking of the Nigeria-Biafra War …in a manner that elicits passion, discord, and contestation in contemporary Nigeria. Drawing on a political economy approach, this research focused on the following. First, it offered new insights into…
What Do Historians Have to Say About Violence? …City. Arlington Heights: H. Davidson, 51. Eric H. Monkkonen. 1995. Homicide over the centuries. Social Science History 19(Summer): 168; Monkkonen. 1995. New York City homicides. Social Science History 19(Summer): 201-14….
‘A Truly Pluralistic Society Has Both Inclusion and Dissent’: A Conversation with Ben Klutsey …that there are different kinds of polarization. There’s political polarization, which measures the ideological distance between the parties. I think in terms of political polarization, you’ll see that the American…
‘Democracy Is Something We Have to Fight For’: A Conversation with Suzette Brooks Masters Suzette Brooks Masters Is polarization in the United States laying the groundwork for political violence? It is not a simple question to answer. Affective polarization—the tendency of partisans to hate…
‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence Amid a volatile election season, the report ‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence outlines the steps social media companies like…
The Kayapo Conjuncture: An Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance with International Civil Society Against Violence and Rights Abuse by the State and National Security …of the mid-90s to mid-2000s might have general implications for the conventional wisdom of developmentalist theory, anthropological and political science treatments of the relation of marginal and ‘weak’ populations and…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Emerging Scholars …Scholars is, as always, a very select group of doctoral students whose dissertation projects—in anthropology, sociology, public health, history, law, and political science–were judged especially likely to further the foundation’s…
