“Beyond the Crisis: Reimagining Migrant Protection” HFG’s June 29, 2023 Knowledge Against Violence Speaker Series event, “Beyond the Crisis: Reimagining Migrant Protection,” explored migrant rights and protections from the perspective of three scholars who study the…
HFG Journalism Fellowships and Awards …a new way to earn money after selling papers for 42 years. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) As a research organization dedicated to understanding violence in all forms, the Foundation…
Homicide in North Italy: Bologna, 1600–1700 …to condemn participants in vendetta to death, they found themselves made party to revenge violence. The inability of the court to effectively police interpersonal violence is indicative of a developing…
Creating the Illusion of Impending Death: Armed Robbers in Action This article appeared in Crimes of Violence, the Spring 1997 edition of TheHFG Review, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation publication that examined topics of violence in depth. Unlike most sorts…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Announces Its 2023 Emerging Scholars …advance knowledge on the nature of and responses to violence around the world. The scholars are completing dissertations on a range of vital topics including organized crime in Latin America…
Dominating a Continent: Retribution and Forcible Confinement in North America …how changes in military infrastructure impacted day-to-day violence in areas that recently experienced warfare; and 3. the ways that violence impacted patterns of incarceration in Saskatchewan following the 1885 Resistance….
Victimhood in a Time of Crisis: Muslims and the Riots of 2020 in New Delhi, India This project explores how victimhood is expressed by Muslims during a time of violence. It studies the case of a communal riot between Hindus and Muslims that took place between…
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…