…and a major obstacle to building sustainable peace after a war ends. Likewise, political violence can create opportunities for corruption to fester and grow. A better understanding of how conflict…

…peace agreements. The project had two primary objectives: (1) to provide negotiators with systematic evidence for evaluating the legitimacy levels of various rebel groups involved in a civil war, and…

…collective grievance appear to play a critical role in this dynamic. Communities that have been historically marginalized, have had their territories unlawfully confiscated during the civil war, and that are…

…entrenched feature of political economies and a major obstacle to building a lasting peace once war ends. The talk was based on their HFG Research and Policy in Brief report,…

…its many forms, including war, crime, and human aggression. 2026 Scholars and Research Topics Stephanie Bonnes (Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of New Haven), Beyond Policy: Understanding Institutional Prevention and…

…exploration of war, paramilitary organizations, grassroots support and resistance, and drug-related violence, Ballvé argues that Urabá, rather than existing in statelessness, has actually been an intense and persistent site of…

…doing so, it theorizes the effects of public violence, mediated by anger. It has broad implications for the study of social movements, community conflict, polarization, and descent into civil war….

By the turn of the twentieth century, “rural youth” came to symbolize the spirit of hard work, masculinity, and patriotism. The village youth associations, the seinendan, carried that ideal and…

Meet grantees studying violence, women and HIV in Tanzania, and post-war Liberian expatriates in the U.S…