What Do Historians Have to Say About Violence? …account for increased violence, just as they study periods of falling levels of violence to help to understand when and why societies reject the use of violence and effectively discourage…
“Pluralism Is a Learned Value”: A Conversation with Dan Vallone Dan Vallone The headline of a recent Reuters special report tells a depressing story: “Political Violence in Polarized US at Its Worst since 1970s.” According to the report, “Explanations for…
“Violence Is Contagious”: A Conversation with Andrew Papachristos …data, to understand how patterns of relationships affect what we do. A lot of my work has applied this idea to understanding patterns of crime and violence, specifically gun violence….
‘A Diffused Climate of Threats and Intimidation’: A Conversation with Daniel Stid …it all sorts of passions. As you look to the remainder of this year, how worried are you about the potential for political violence in the US? For actual physical…
‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence …can enable or contribute to political strife. Amid a volatile election season, the report, ‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence,…
A Political Science Perspective on Teaching about Violence This article appeared in Teaching About Violence, the Spring 2000 edition of TheHFG Review, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation publication that examined topics of violence in depth. Political scientists who…
“Intimate Partner Violence and Armed Conflict in Colombia”: Dr. Maria Restrepo-Ruiz …women during times of high political violence. When armed conflict-related violence decreases or during post-conflict times, however, high intimate partner violence levels persist. The Colombian armed conflict intensified adherence to…
“True Equity Means Everyone’s Life Has Equal Value”: A Conversation with Shani Buggs …devoted to gun violence. And so I shifted my focus to gun-violence prevention. This was 2012, and the conversation about gun violence as a public health issue was still very…
‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence Amid a volatile election season, the report ‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence outlines the steps social media companies like…
“Illiberal Ideas Are Having a Negative Effect on Our Political Culture”: A Conversation with Thomas Main …man, talk about violence. He says that aggression should always be met with aggression. That logic dictates that any failure to respond to violence with even more violence is only…
