“Ordinary People Are Really Not All That Extreme”: A Conversation with Matthew Levendusky Matthew Levendusky Photo: John Pankratz, Albright College Newsweek reports that a “Plurality of Americans Believe ‘Civil War’ Likely in Next Decade.” The Atlantic documents “The Doom Spiral of Pernicious Polarization.”…
Fueling the Fires: How Corruption and Conflict Keep Each Other Burning …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…
Rebel Tactics, Local Public Support, and the Upcoming Phase of Peace Talks in Southern Thailand …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…
Targeted Recruitment: Explaining Why Certain Clans Join and Eschew Al-Shebab in Somalia …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…
Fueling the Fires: How Corruption and Conflict Keep Each Other Burning …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,…
HFG Welcomes Its 2026 Distinguished Scholars …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…
Territorial Masquerades: Violence, Paramilitaries, and Frontier State Formation in Colombia …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…
Fear, Violence, and Restraint: Dynamics of Historical Change in the Tunisian Revolution …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….
Carnegie Council and HFG Launch Nuclear Ethics and Security Fellowship Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is launching the inaugural Harry Frank Guggenheim Nuclear Ethics and Security Fellowship. Eighty years after the beginning of the Cold War, the world again…
HFG Welcomes Its 2026 Emerging Scholars …on the nature, consequences, and reduction of violence in its many forms, including war, crime, and human aggression. For more information contact: Halima Gikandi, Senior Communications Manager info@hfg.org | 646.428.0973…
