…for the wartime period, when the camps descended into mass death and genocide. The basic outline of the SS camps had been drawn before the war and the camps proved…

…JTF in 2013, and its replacement with the 7th infantry division as the umbrella command for the war on Boko Haram, indiscriminate attacks on civilians continued to be widespread and…

…left-wing political violence, including the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, as well as acts of violence against Jews that seem to have been motivated by the war in Gaza. Are…

…answer this question, I analyze the complex and contentious relationship between religion and violence during the foundational decades between 1920 and 1960, a period that witnessed the Cristero War (1926–1929),…

In the aftermath of World War II, the French government commissioned multiple organizations to study the defeat, the occupation, and the Resistance. The most ambitious of these was the Committee…

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation examines enduring and urgent problems of violence, such as war, crime, and human aggression. Through basic and applied research, we aim to understand the causes,…

…outsiders. The HFG grant enabled me to examine discipline and punishment in Nazi prisons during the Second World War. This period saw a dramatic escalation of violence inside prisons. Local…

…stage on which it had played out, in miniature, so to speak, its deep fears about the nature of the postwar settlement taking shape back home. The very distance from…

…have ignored local dynamics, both in transitions from war and in postwar environments. Despite a rich body of academic literature on civil wars, social scientific studies have seldom focused on…

…from interviews with 127 subjects and extensive archival research from more than 16 months of fieldwork, I find strong evidence supporting the theory. Civil war can lead to state-building in…