Controlling Violence in Wartime? Power Centralization and Economization of Republican Violence in the Spanish Civil War …decide, and are able to control, minimize, or maximize violence; and the impact of political discourses and competition among different actors for the use of violence in modern war violence….
Information in Counterrevolution: State Torture and the Armed Left in Southern South America in the 1970s …opponents, met the violence of the security state, these units proliferated across a region roiled by new forms of urban insurgency, torture-based intelligence operations, and strategies to oppose state violence…
White Terror: Paramilitary Violence in Interwar Central Europe …this field and to test the wider methodological implications of my hypothesis for our understanding of political violence more generally. I undertook several extended trips to various Central European archives…
Targeting Institutional Risk Factors to Reduce Patient Violence …or high) strongly predicted units’ violence rates one year later (r= .78). Second, specific factors that strongly predicted future violence included a unit’s historical rates of violence; limited violence-relevant interventions;…
The Political-Criminal Nexus: Emerging Violent Threat to Governability in the Twenty-First Century One of the more dangerous contemporary threats to the quality of life is the collaboration of the political establishment with the criminal underworld—the political-criminal nexus (PCN). These partnerships increasingly undermine…
HFG Launches Speaker Series on Gender-Based Violence This fall, the Foundation will host three Knowledge Against Violence conversations titled, “Global Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence.” Gender-based violence, defined by the United Nations as “harmful acts directed at people…
Collective Crimes in Times of War: Explaining Local Violence Against Civilians in Croatia …violence against civilians. Thus, even before mass violence begins, certain communities are transformed into amoral communities, where the definition of crime becomes altered and violence is justified as a form…
In the Name of Christ: Religious Violence and Its Legitimacy in Mexico (1920–2020) …newspapers, religious publications, and secondary literature on religious violence in Latin America and beyond, my research explores the theological, political, and cultural drivers that contributed to Catholics’ understanding of the…
“Social Disruptions Reveal Who We Are”: A Conversation with Jeffrey Butts …the Cure Violence model. Programs like Save Our Streets—that’s where I would put all my investments. I wanted to ask you about the state of Cure Violence research. It is…
The Peaceful Century: War in Twentieth-Century Latin America …on the continent? I demonstrate how the absence of both institutional authority and politically organized violence were bound in a circular, causal relationship. The origins of this unique pattern of…
