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…
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….
Seeing Like a Peacebuilder: An Ethnography of International Intervention Why do international peace interventions so often fail to reach their full potential? To answer this question, I conducted several years of research in conflict zones around the world, including…
“There Are Clearly Spaces Where Law Enforcement Does Not Belong”: A Conversation with Tracie Keesee …not there’s a political appetite to do what needs to be done for the good of communities. It is creating a tremendous amount of stress for service providers on the…
The Middle Eastern Military as a Factor in Domestic and Regional Conflict and Violence: A Case Study of the Iranian Army …the officer corps contained individuals and groups possessing political ambitions that were independent of the shah, though not politically radical, and that the stifling of such tendencies as the shah…
Legacies of the Past and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country …We found a positive association between these indicators and support for political violence in the 1970s, which indicates that the legacy of political violence in the past has indeed affected…
An Unexpected Peace: Understanding Resilient Order and Violence in Multi-Gang Environments …federal government has the same party identification as local governments. For this study, we brought together social science and journalism to create a natural, experimental setting to study why criminals…
Race/Ethnicity, Space, and Political Culture: A Comparative Study of Collective Violence in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles …urban centers and to examine the effects of differences in political organization and culture and police discipline and behavior, with the goal of recommending policies that could defuse tensions—not by…
The Psychological Sequelae of Political Torture in South Africa Most research on persons subjected to physical torture for political reasons has framed this experience as traumatic, with the sequelae approximating the diagnostic criteria of posttraumatic stress disorder. However, responses…
