The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars …Cataloguing Murder: Tracking Violence Against Public Figures in Central America Abby Cordova (International Affairs, University of Notre Dame), Violence against Women and Political Engagement in Multi-Violence Contexts: Evidence from El-Salvador…
“This Isn’t Just a Normal Political Fight”: A Conversation with Lilliana Mason …political violence can have a corrosive effect. According to political scientist Lilliana Mason, political violence amounts to a rejection of democracy. “If a person has used violence to achieve a…
Frayed but Not Broken: Understanding American Division in a Polarized Age …movements, etc. tracked by ACLED in demonstrations and acts of political violence — has been on the decline … Taken separately, the number of acts of political violence involving extremist…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars …1930-1968 Salih Noor (Political Science, Northwestern University), The Legacies of Liberation: Settler-Colonial Domination, Revolutionary Violence, and Political Change in Southern Africa Daniel Solomon (Political Science, Georgetown University), The Order of…
Troubled Peace: Explaining Political Violence in Post-Conflict Settings My research is about violence after war. Contrary to received wisdom, violent societies are not a natural outcome of war. Violence is not ubiquitous in post-war countries. It does not…
“Ordinary People Are Really Not All That Extreme”: A Conversation with Matthew Levendusky …support for violence in a survey. The problem with political violence isn’t that there’s a significant percentage of the public who think violence is acceptable … The problem is really…
‘There Are Very Few Democracies That Are as Polarized as We Are Today’: A Conversation with Jennifer McCoy …if any, between pernicious polarization and political violence? First of all, like polarization, political violence has different definitions. If we take a broad definition, it’s violence that is either directed…
‘Political Polarization Has Become Almost a Form of Entertainment’: A Conversation with Clionadh Raleigh Clionadh Raleigh Clionadh Raleigh, a professor of political violence and geography at the University of Sussex, has been studying violence for more than twenty years and has come to a…
“Democracy Tested: Political Violence and Global Elections” …backdrop, HFG’s first Violence, Politics & Democracy speaker series event gathered a panel of scholars to discuss democratic backsliding, political protest, mis- and disinformation, and increased levels of election-related violence….
‘The Potential for Terrorism Is Pretty Frightening’: A Conversation with Gary LaFree …involves violence or the threat of violence for a political purpose. It’s a little more complicated than that, but basically that sums it up. By that standard should we consider…
