“Sex Work: Does Legitimization Mitigate Violence?” …terrorism, intimate relationships, climate instability, and political extremism. Watch Panel I: “Weapons of War: Examining Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Zones” Watch Panel II: “Reckoning with Intimate-Partner Violence after the Pandemic”…
“Reckoning with Intimate-Partner Violence after the Pandemic” …violence in areas such as war, crime, terrorism, intimate relationships, climate instability, and political extremism. Watch Panel I: “Weapons of War: Examining Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Zones” Watch Panel III:…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2023 Distinguished Scholars …continents, are embarking on research to clarify the causes and dynamics of grave violence. In some cases, the violence happens one victim at a time; in others an entire ethnic…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2023-2024 African Fellows …All are doctoral candidates at African universities exploring important problems of violence related to the African continent. Fellows are investigating topics, including inter-ethnic conflict, democratization, and political protests. The fellowship…
Our Work …manifestation, and control of violence. We spread this knowledge to inform policy, practice, and public discourse and to advance scholarship. A mission to create and disseminate knowledge against violence The…
Political Economy of Memory: The Making, Unmaking and Remaking of the Nigeria-Biafra War …a group’s identity and sustain that identity and, ultimately, translate into a basis for future violence. Third, it explores the politics of “dominant” and “subordinate” memories of war and violence…
Geographic Perspectives on the Indonesian Killings of 1965–66 in Central and East Java …hundred thousand, these killings comprised the single most traumatic political event in the history of independent Indonesia. Directed against people affiliated with the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), the violence killed…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Distinguished Scholars …in Southern Thailand Laura Blume (University of Nevada, Reno) Cataloguing Murder: Tracking Violence Against Public Figures in Central America Abby Cordova (University of Notre Dame) Violence against Women and Political…
Postcolonial Aspirations and Intimacies of Violence Among Gebusi of the Nomad Area, Papua New GuineaandThe Role of Culture in the Early Evolution of Human Violence …can have a powerful impact on the rate of human violence. This finding lends credence to the notion that human violence is a solvable problem and is not an intrinsic…
Distinctive Characteristics of Marital Violence The study of violence has become increasingly specialized. Researchers and policy makers focus on such topics as domestic violence, sexual assault, or violence between strangers. Specialization can be beneficial, but…
