Suzette Brooks Masters Is polarization in the United States laying the groundwork for political violence? It is not a simple question to answer. Affective polarization—the tendency of partisans to hate…

…can inform future studies of ethnic and political violence in borderland regions beyond Ukraine as well as contribute to discussions in genocide studies and social scientific research on political violence….

…reduce violence but harm people. You are advancing a kind of “do no harm” argument on behalf of Cure Violence. But do we know that it actually does what it…

…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….

Against a backdrop of escalating political violence and deepening polarization in the United States, a new HFG-supported report from the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights  examines how…

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…

…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…

…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…

…marked by dysfunction, identity struggles, and intense forms of political competition that undermine democratic processes. Hybrid democracies are particularly susceptible to political violence because they often exhibit violence or the…

…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…