A Sea of Blood and Tears: Ethnicity, Identity and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Volhynia, Ukraine 1941-44 …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….
‘Democracy Is Something We Have to Fight For’: A Conversation with Suzette Brooks Masters 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…
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….
Digital Aftershocks: Online Mobilization and Violence in the United States 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…
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…
“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 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…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Welcomes Its 2025-2026 African Fellows …are doctoral candidates at African universities exploring important problems of violence related to the African continent. Fellows are investigating topics across ten African countries, including political extremism, gender-based violence, postcolonial…
HFG Welcomes Its 2026 Distinguished Scholars …Jadoon (Political Science, Clemson University), Mapping Visions of Peace: Perspectives on Violence, Grievances, and Reconciliation in Pakistan’s Conflict Zones Sandra Ley and Radha Sarkar (Social Sciences and Government, Tecnológico de…
