The Militarization of Nuer and Dinka Community Life: A Comparative Field Study of the Transformative Impact of Sudan’s Unresolved War …to carry out fieldwork on evolving patterns of inter- and intra-ethnic violence in war-torn regions of the Western Upper Nile (a.k.a. Unity State), southern Sudan—including six months of intensive field…
Sexual Justice in the American Civil War The Sexual Justice in the American Civil War Project is the first comprehensive study of the response of the Union military to allegations of sexual assault against women and girls…
In Ukraine and Elsewhere, Is Third-Party Diplomacy Helpful in Ending Wars? …outcome. With support from The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Min collected daily-level data on battles and negotiations from ninety-two interstate wars between 1823 and 2003 to gauge the impact of…
The White Power Movement at War on Democracy …took form in the 1980s but has older historical roots. In this HFG Research and Policy in Brief, The White Power Movement at War on Democracy, University of Chicago historian…
The Peaceful Century: War in Twentieth-Century Latin America Blood and Debt analyzed a double empirical puzzle. Why did the Latin American state fail to develop beyond its limited organizational capacity, and why did international war occur so infrequently…
Collective Crimes in Times of War: Explaining Local Violence Against Civilians in Croatia …against civilians occurred by examining the sources of the local variation in the level and type of violence in the war in Croatia that lasted from 1991 to 1995. This…
“None of Us Dared Say Anything”: Mass Killing in a Bosnian Community During World War II and the Postwar Culture of Silence …provides a powerful means through which to rethink fundamental assumptions about the interrelationships among ethnicity, nationalism, and violence, both during World War II and more broadly. Local-level analysis revealed how…
Ways of War: Toward a Global Military History …the least warlike period in its millennia-long history. (There were, of course, many wars and rebellions, so we are speaking relatively, comparing the incidence of conflict to other periods in…
“Weapons of War: Examining Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Zones” …to illuminate the causes, manifestations, and responses to violence in areas such as war, crime, terrorism, intimate relationships, climate instability, and political extremism. Watch Panel II: “Reckoning with Intimate-Partner Violence…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars …When Comrades Go to War: Post-Liberation Movements, Elite Politics, and the Internal Dynamics of Africa’s Great War 2012 Tonio A. Andrade (History, Emory University), Ways of War: Toward a Global…
