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…
Armed Politics and the State in Post-Colonial Asia …groups are deeply threatening, which are politically unproblematic, and which are unsavory or tolerable. These political foundations of state and regime form the basis of state strategy, but tactical calculations…
Our Work …purposes. Some 30 years later, Mr. Guggenheim centered the Foundation’s work on problems of violence, believing that humanity had failed to match its progress in science, technology, medicine, and industry…
Political Violence, Military Conflict and Civil Unrest in Palestine: The Palestinian Police, the Fatah Tanzim and the “Al-Aqsa Intifada” This research project was originally undertaken with the aim of examining the roles played by the military and civilian police forces of the Palestinian Authority, and the popular militias (in…
War and Economic Development in Vietnam and Sierra Leone …always catastrophic. We find that individual exposure to the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone has lead to increased political participation, community activism, and local public good provision. This political…
A Sea of Blood and Tears: Ethnicity, Identity and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Volhynia, Ukraine 1941-44 …can inform future studies of ethnic and political violence in borderland regions beyond Ukraine as well as contribute to discussions in genocide studies and social scientific research on political violence….
Polarization and Violent Threats to Democratic Systems …marked by dysfunction, identity struggles, and intense forms of political competition that undermine democratic processes. Hybrid democracies are particularly susceptible to political violence because they often exhibit violence or the…
