HFG Fall Internship …problems of violence, such as war, crime, and human aggression. Through basic and applied research, we aim to understand the causes, manifestation, and control of violence. We spread this knowledge…
Ordinary Soldiers? A Case Study of the Nazi-Soviet War of Annihilation …combat record of the division reveals many examples of extreme violence. Within this case study, there were two primary research questions. First, in studying the division’s combat record, what examples…
The World Crisis: 1635–1665 In the mid-seventeenth century, a series of violent economic, social, intellectual and political upheavals afflicted most regions of this planet. Although not the only known global catastrophe, it was the…
Blackfoot Traditional Models of Aggression and Healing …Blackfoot people—from eighteenth-century British fur traders to early-twentieth-century ethnographers—witnessed very little interpersonal violence within Blackfoot communities. In Never in Anger, her study of a Canadian Inuit community nearly fifty years…
The Violent Life of Bruna Veríssimo: An Experimental Ethnographic Biography of a Homeless Brazilian Youth …lives of survivors; yet, what if violence is not so much an event but one of the few constant features in a life? What, for instance, do the relentlessly violent…
Drugs, Violence, and National Honor: British Foreign Policy and the Opium Crisis, 1833–1840 The first Opium War (1840–1842) was a defining moment in Anglo-Chinese relations, and since the 1840s the histories of its origins have tended to be straightforward narratives suggesting that the…
Entertaining, Informing, Discussing: How do Media Spread Messages of Peace and Violence? We test the causal effects of a democracy promotion radio intervention launched by an international nongovernmental organization (INGO) in South Sudan. The serial radio episodes addressed topics that are relatively…
HFG Helps Launch Working Group on Violent Crime With murders and gun violence increasing in some U.S. cities following a long decline, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is joining with the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) to form…
HFG Program Assistant …The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) examines enduring and urgent problems of violence, such as war, crime, and human aggression. Through basic and applied research, we aim to understand the…
HFG Part-Time Social Media Manager …management and execution of the Foundation’s social media and audience engagement strategy. About the Foundation The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) examines enduring and urgent problems of violence, such as…
