…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:…

…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…

…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…

…the heart of contemporary Taiwanese memory struggles about the legitimacy of Chinese sovereignty over the island. My main object is to explore political violence, its repertoires, meaning, and origins. I…

…of gun and gang violence. The most important drivers of gang violence appear to be the ways in which reciprocity and status-seeking violence unfold within such conflict networks. This project’s…

…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…

…their everyday life and women’s vulnerability to violence. Structural violence contributes to gendered interpersonal violence both by causing it and by preventing society and victims from confronting it effectively. My…

…I think the expression that we have a “problem” with violence is really an understatement. I think we are now getting close to a crisis of violence. It is obviously…