Resisting Genocidal Violence …our research design, it is worth noting that the communities in which they lived also varied significantly in terms of the level and onset of violence, as well as whether…
Religion, Conscience, and Abusive Behaviour: Understanding the Role of Faith and Spirituality in the Deterrence of Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Ethiopia …showed that the male participants had some understanding about women’s abuse in marital relationships. In their minds, abuse related more to physical violence (beating), an unequal division of labor, and…
Pathways to Conflict: The Impact of Climate Change on Violence …scarcity, economic hardship and increased migration, this year’s first Knowledge Against Violence speaker series event answered questions about the conditions under which climate change and insecurity exacerbate violent conflict. The…
“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,…
“Why We Fight”: Dr. Chris Blattman …Random House: Why We Fight draws on decades of economics, political science, psychology, and real-world interventions to lay out the root causes and remedies for war, showing that violence is…
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…
International Sanctions against Violent Actors In International Sanctions against Violent Actors, Dursun Peksen, Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis, examines the extent to which international sanctions affect political violence committed by state…
Fueling the Fires: How Corruption and Conflict Keep Each Other Burning …and a major obstacle to building sustainable peace after a war ends. Likewise, political violence can create opportunities for corruption to fester and grow. A better understanding of how conflict…
The Militarization of Nuer and Dinka Community Life: A Comparative Field Study of the Transformative Impact of Sudan’s Unresolved War …the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). The tremendous surge in Nuer/Dinka violence precipitated by that event mercifully came to an end in January 2002, after the SPLA was reunited by…
The Nazi Concentration Camps …Much of my work focuses on daily practices of violence. I have examined the transition from the improvised abuse in the early camps to the structured violence of later years,…
