Drug Cartels’ Violence in New and Traditional Illegal Markets …increase violence in municipalities crossed by oil pipelines. At the same time, such municipalities witnessed a deterioration of socio-economic conditions as measured by infant mortality and school dropout rates. Violence…
The Kayapo Conjuncture: An Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance with International Civil Society Against Violence and Rights Abuse by the State and National Security …of the mid-90s to mid-2000s might have general implications for the conventional wisdom of developmentalist theory, anthropological and political science treatments of the relation of marginal and ‘weak’ populations and…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2021 Emerging Scholars …problems of violence in Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the United States. As always, we hope that research on how violence originates, what sustains it,…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2020 Dissertation Fellows …of Organized Crime Chulani Kodikara (Political Science, University of Edinburgh). Grief and Hope, Inscription and Erasure: A Struggle for Truth and Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka Molly Minden (Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison). Legacies…
At the Crossroads: Behind the Rise in Gun Violence in New York and Other American Cities HFG’s ‘At the Crossroads’ series concludes with the publication of “Behind the Rise in Gun Violence in New York and Other American Cities,” a compilation of the twelve interviews conducted…
“Soldiers in Exile”: Dr. Godfrey Maringira …casts a light on the oppression of soldiers by commanders who sought to repress and control the political thinking of their men. By contextualizing the political, economic and material conditions…
“Local or Global? The Future of Peacebuilding in Africa” On May 2, the academic and practitioner worlds converged in a sit-down conversation between Séverine Autesserre, professor and chair of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University and João Honwana,…
Violence and Dysphoria: The Villagization of Kinshasa and the Role of Healers …with their exclusion from the benefits of economic and informational globalization; how do they succeed to thwart the spiral of violence that numerous other parts of Black Africa have been…
Dying to Save: Youth Vigilantism, Civilian Joint Task Force, and Counterterrorism in Nigeria How do civilian communities in contemporary armed rebellions create order in a context of pervasive insecurity? What are the consequences of civilian self-protection strategies and order-making for violence in general…
Kidnapping in Colombia …was practiced in rural areas by some late “bandoleros” of the political violence period in the 1950s. On the other hand, urban kidnapping of foreigners—diplomats and CEOs—was imported from groups…
