“People Who Do Harmful Things Are Reacting to Harmful Things”: A Conversation with Marlon Peterson …what I mean? And that’s just using police violence as an example. But there are other types of violence on the communal level that are always impacting people. Health disparities…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows …Cape Town). Militarization of University Spaces in Zimbabwe: Institutionalised Political Violence Yahya Sseremba (Political Science, Makerere University). A Historical and Political Inquiry Into the Political Violence in the Rwenzori Area…
Dynamics of Violence in Conventional Civil Wars What explains violence against civilians in civil wars? Why do armed groups use violence in some places but not in neighboring places with similar characteristics? Why do they kill more…
Violence, Politics & Democracy …political violence are increasing in frequency and intensity, assessing the actual likelihood of politically motivated acts of physical harm remains challenging, as does determining what to do about such threats….
The Dynamics of Violence in Civil War: Evaluating the Impact of Ethnicity on Violence …violence is really ethnic; for, ethnic violence is more than violence between individuals of different ethnicities. The main obstacle in answering this question is methodological: comparing ethnic and nonethnic wars…
Surer Mohamed Named 2021 Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge …political violence and its aftermath in African urban spaces. My research specifically focuses on the politics of post-conflict urban reconstruction in Mogadishu, which is an under-researched part of the political…
‘Stories about the Way the Nation Is Organized Are Dividing Us’: A Conversation with Richard Slotkin …spiral. Looking forward, he predicts a future of renewed political violence, plagued by “terrorism, urban uprisings, and intercommunal violence of the kind that has plagued Israel and Northern Ireland.” We’ve…
Some Things Psychologists Think They Know About Aggression and Violence …who are disproportionately involved in individual violence, whereas it is often the best socialized who are involved in intergroup violence. Individual violence is represented in the statistics of violent crime:…
HFG Welcomes its 2024 Emerging Scholars …political extremism and paramilitaries in the US and abroad, the treatment of gender violence in Chile’s justice system, the use of political rhetoric to undercut democratic movements in autocracies, the…
Legacies of the Past and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country …We found a positive association between these indicators and support for political violence in the 1970s, which indicates that the legacy of political violence in the past has indeed affected…
