“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…
“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…
Carnegie Council and HFG Announce Scott D. Sagan as Inaugural Nuclear Ethics Fellow …Ethics and Security. Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation…
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…
HFG Distinguished Scholars …(Social Sciences and Government, Tecnológico de Monterrey) and Radha Sarkar (Social Sciences and Government, Tecnológico de Monterrey), Organized Crime and Religious Leaders: Understanding Victimization and Resilience Marc Lynch (Political Science…
‘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…
HFG Staff …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 nationally recognized community violence…
‘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…
‘A Healthy Democracy Requires Social Trust’: A Conversation with Ilana Redstone …the people who disagree with me are hateful, stupid, immoral, etc.? That’s what I mean by political polarization. Thankfully, at this point, the actual incidence of political violence in this…
