The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2024 Distinguished Scholars …creating a foundation to support scholarly research on violence. As our grantees always do, the 2024 Distinguished Scholars are investigating violence in its varied forms—crime, terrorism, domestic violence, political ideology…
The Polarization Project …and political violence? Is it possible to bridge the divides that separate Americans from one another? Should we be hopeful or pessimistic as we look to the future? These and…
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa The HFG research and subsequent book, Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa, is an attempt to think about the implications of pervasive spiritual insecurity for the postapartheid democratic state…
An Unexpected Peace: Understanding Resilient Order and Violence in Multi-Gang Environments …as evidence that enforcement operations in economically (or politically) valuable territories for criminal operations are a trigger for violence. Other international cases of peace among criminal organizations follow similar patterns….
Scrutinizing the Gray Zones: Dynamics of Collective Violence in Contemporary Argentina …established political actors, I argue, count in the making of collective violence and in routine political life. The research scrutinizes the gray zone where the actions and networks of both…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Emerging Scholars …mission of clarifying the causes of violence,” said Joel Wallman, Director of Research. “Ethnic violence, vigilante behavior, violence against women, and armed non-state groups motivated by a political vision, illicit…
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…
Conspiracy Beliefs and Violence in American Culture: A Comparative Study of Black and White Separatism …In North America and Europe, race-oriented political and social movements display two salient characteristics: ideologies that are mirror images of one another, and a treatment of race as the functional…
Youthful Martyrdom and Heroic Criminality: Aggression and the Formation of Youth Groups in Northern Nigeria …Such conflations, and the violence that accompanied them, were fomented by religious metaphysics of fear, discipline, growing anti-American sentiment, and the political use of identity within Nigeria. However, during my…
An Anatomy of Sectarian Violence: Jews and Christians in Premodern Poland …political triggers, accusations of religious crimes did not result in prosecution, much less in religious violence against Jews. The project crucially casts a new light on the most infamous case…
