“Twas Always Known as the Bloody Frontier”: Rumors, Memories, and Bosnian Identity in the Migrant Crisis …success as a platform to try to pivot into political positions, though they were largely unsuccessful. I sought to understand the crisis from the resident perspective; to contextualize the historical,…
Mass Shootings: Causes and Prevention …to high-capacity weapons, building more effective early-warning systems, and creating a reliable process for data collection could greatly reduce the frequency and toll of this very American type of violence….
The White Power Movement at War on Democracy …assert and maintain white dominance. In doing so, she exhorts scholars, policymakers, and law enforcement officials to understand and address disparate acts of violence as part of a larger movement….
Policing Protests: Lessons from The Occupy Movement, Ferguson and Beyond As recent history shows, police often treat peaceful protests as if they are riots or fail to prevent violence with early action. Authors Edward Maguire and Megan Oakley provide a…
Under Many Fires: Factors Influencing the Adoption of Female Circumcision by Southern Sudanese War-Displaced Women in Khartoum …project will continue to investigate is that between war and cultural responses in times of violence and transgression. So far, intermarriage seems to be a primary factor in cultural change….
Ethnic Conflict and Socioeconomic Development in the Niger-Delta Region of Nigeria Since the end of the Cold War, ethnic conflicts scattered all over the world and often taking place within nations (intrastate) have been the most prevalent form of global violence….
Blood and Soil: Modern Genocide, 1500–2000 …combination of such factors essential to genocidal policy and practice enables emerging human disasters resulting from dominance, aggression and violence to be detected in advance and hopefully, in a timely…
Competitive and Cooperative Behaviors among Forest Elephants in the Presence of a Limited Resource …of the contact interactions resulted in obvious serious injuries. It is clear that dominance is quite different in nature from active aggression and violence, at times serving to abort or…
Strategic Observers Underground: How They See Trouble and What They Do Next Following Jane Jacobs’s observations of the role of “public characters” as a mechanism for heading off city crime and street violence, we asked just how such individuals actually do their…
Social Order and the Genesis of Rebellion: A Study of Mutiny in the Royal Navy, 1740–1820 …over information about the possibility of an amnesty was a critical cause of the resilience of the Nore mass mutiny. Violence was used to maintain order through corporal punishment but…