Constitutional Design: Many Architects, No Buildings This study concerns constitutional design for severely divided societies—the political institutions apt for peaceful coexistence or interethnic accommodation of groups with a history of antipathy that must nevertheless live together…
The Dynamics of Violence in Civil War: Evaluating the Impact of Ethnicity on Violence …factors such as the type of warfare and the resources of the combatants in addition to the nature of the social and political divisions, of which ethnicity is only one….
Killing Campaigns: The Origins and Dynamics of Mass Violence in Africa …perception—shapes leaders’ willingness to use mass violence and the public’s acceptance of it. Second, ideological constructs—what I label “founding narratives”—influence the ways in which political and military leaders devise strategies…
Intrahousehold Income Inequality and Conflict: Testing an Economic Model of Domestic Violence in Kerala, India Domestic violence in developing countries has been an area of growing concern among researchers and activists in the women’s health and rights movements. An entrenched patriarchal system and a scarcity…
Violent Profits: The Political Economy of Electoral Violence …by scholars and policymakers is whether or how the nature of political-business relationships might affect the outbreak or targeting of election violence. When are business actors targeted by election violence?…
A New Kind of War: A History of the 1946–1949 Greek Civil War …and inability to provide leadership of political elites on both sides of the divide, and an exceptionally polarized political culture. The void in power and the inability of the state…
Ethnic Identity, Collective Action and Conflict: An Experimental Approach A large literature shows that ethnically homogenous communities often do a better job than diverse communities of producing satisfactory schools and health care, adequate sanitation, low levels of crime, and…
Some Things Psychologists Think They Know About Aggression and Violence Professor of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College; Co-Director, Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania; HFG grantee This article appeared in Teaching About Violence, the Spring 2000…
HFG Fall Internship …field (e.g., International Relations, Political Science, Criminology, English, Communications, Journalism or Management) Firm grasp of social media tools and platforms including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Mailchimp, Hootsuite, etc. Must be computer…
HFG Launches Speaker Series on Gender-Based Violence …international relations, and political science. Speakers include: Abby Cordova, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame Romina Istratii, School of History, Religions and Philosophies, SOAS NOVEMBER 28, 2023…
