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…

…collection of violence topics, including those involving gender, religion, ethnicity, prisons, policing, social media, intergroup attitudes, conflict resolution, and post-war societies. TOP FROM LEFT: SMADAR BEN-NATAN, KATHERINE BRUCE-LOCKHART, ANKUR DATTA,…

…the US Opioid Epidemic on Mexican Migration.” “Oil Thefts and the Mexican War on Drugs” In this paper, we show that the “War on Drugs” launched by Mexican President Felipe…

…the product of violent turf wars of the past; not just turf wars between gangs, but also battles between gangs, on the one hand, and the state, urban developers, powerful…

…Makerere University), Rethinking Childhood: Child Identity Formation in Post-War Northern Uganda Stephen David (English Studies, Stellenbosch University), Biafra as Third Space: Reading the Politics of Belonging in Nigeria-Biafra Civil War…

BERLIN – MAY 06: A visitor looks at an exhibit of index cards from the post-World War II investigation of members of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), one of…

…limited to, the following: War Crime Terrorism Family and intimate-partner relationships Climate instability and natural resource competition Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict Political extremism and nationalism The Foundation supports research…