Our new look …the talented team at Design for Progress, support new programming, including our expanded HFG Speaker Series, new multi-media projects, such as our Violence, Politics & Democracy initiative, and new ways…
“Understanding the Drivers of Violent Extremism in Africa” Panel …of violent extremism on the African continent, the role of the state, and the dichotomy between victims and perpetrators of violence in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Mozambique….
The Mind of the Segregationist …we must learn how they found and exploited the fissures and pressure points in southern white society. The conflict between the white South’s political and religious institutions helps us begin…
State Practices, National Identity and Anti-Immigrantism in Western Democracies This study critically examines the various practices of anti-immigrantism in three Western democracies—the United States, the United Kingdom, and France—within the context of globalization. The study draws upon the works…
Social Dominance and Coercive Strategies of Resource Control in Children …that many high-status and well-accepted individuals (e.g., CEOs, political leaders) are modestly aggressive in their own right. Is aggression in some contexts adaptive and socially competent? A strategy-based evolutionary perspective…
Characteristics and Determinants of Global Homicide Crime Waves, 1946 to 1998 Difficulties in comparing political and legal systems have long hampered our efforts to estimate cross-national violent crime rates. Adding the requirement that such studies examine trends over time makes the…
Striving in the Path of God: Discursive Traditions on Jihad and the Cult of Martyrdom …to specific historical and political circumstances. Among these circumstances are the continuing border skirmishes with the Byzantines in the Umayyad period (661–750), the Crusades and the Mongol attacks from the…
Criminal Retaliation: A Qualitative Study of Social Control Beyond the Law Despite its preeminent role in regulating disputes between and among street criminals, retaliation has received scant attention from criminological researchers. Existing studies explore retaliation only tangentially, with little or no…
Competitive Intervention and its Consequences for Civil Wars This project explores two interrelated puzzles about external intervention and internal war. The first asks why rebels, governments, and third-party interveners often continue to invest in costly and protracted conflicts…
Insurgent Fragmentation and State Attachment in the Syrian Civil War …costly infighting, most notably when the so-called Islamic State broke away to establish a rival political-religious project in 2013–14. Repeated foreign-backed attempts to unify Syria’s rebel factions behind a central…
