Organization and Community: The Determinants of Insurgent Military Effectiveness …studies the development and military capacity of insurgent groups. First, the project constructs a novel conception of military effectiveness fitting for the types of combat common in civil war, including…
Shoot the State: Guns, Freedom, and Domination in the Americas, 1774-1934 …Shoot the State will use the arms trade to explore the history of freedom and domination in the Western Hemisphere from the American Revolution to the eve of World War…
Homicide in North Italy: Bologna, 1600–1700 …bases, republican and oligarchic factions of urban nobility launched a renewed assault on papal authority in the mid-sixteenth century. A civil war broke out in the city’s streets and homicide…
Contested Narratives: A Genesis of State Violence in Post-Revolutionary Iran (1979-1988) …executions from 1981 to 1988. What happened between 1981 and 1988 in Iranian society while the country was undergoing a long-lasting war with Iraq? How can we approach these events,…
“We’re Losing a Sense of Accountability”: A Conversation with Richard Aborn …Greg Berman: We’ve gotten to a point where no one really denies that there is a problem of increased violence in New York. But we’re now dealing with a war…
“People Who Do Harmful Things Are Reacting to Harmful Things”: A Conversation with Marlon Peterson …to intimidate. It’s unnecessary. There’s been an increase in shootings, yes, but this is not a war zone. I think the militaristic nature of the police culture incites an angst…
Surer Mohamed Named 2021 Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College Cambridge …Guggenheim Research Fellowship was established at Pembroke College in 2011 in honor of Harry Frank Guggenheim, an alumnus of Pembroke and veteran of both world wars, who recognized the need…
Criminal Justice Expert Greg Berman Named Inaugural Guggenheim Distinguished Fellow of Practice …in creating and disseminating knowledge on the nature, consequences, and reduction of violence in its many forms, including war, crime, and human aggression. For more information contact: Nyeleti Honwana, Program…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2020 Dissertation Fellows …of Organized Crime Chulani Kodikara (Political Science, University of Edinburgh). Grief and Hope, Inscription and Erasure: A Struggle for Truth and Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka Molly Minden (Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison). Legacies…
HFG Helps Launch Working Group on Violent Crime …and disseminating knowledge on the nature, consequences, and reduction of violence in its many forms, including war, crime, and human aggression. For more information contact: Nyeleti Honwana, Program Officer info@hfg.org…