The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2020 Distinguished Scholars …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,…
Drug Cartels’ Violence in New and Traditional Illegal Markets …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…
Murder by Structure: How Street Gangs Built the Great American City …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…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows …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…
HFG Distinguished Scholars 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…
HFG African Fellows …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…
Blood and Soil: Modern Genocide, 1500–2000 …the causes of mass slaughter (economic destabilization, poverty, and war, and more proximate causes, such as the seizure of power and decisions made by violent extremists); and, perhaps most important,…
Characteristics and Determinants of Global Homicide Crime Waves, 1946 to 1998 …since World War II. We defined crime booms as crime rates that increase rapidly and exhibit a positive sustained change in direction. Based on our definition, we found that twelve…
Nationalism and Violence in Two Post-Soviet Republics: Azerbaijan and Moldova …important than previously thought in accounting for violence; and that interventions by neighboring states (or rump groups within them) are often the culprits for civil war violence. The newly collected…
Operation Fly Trap: Police Suppression and Gang Violence …gang violence (as outlined above) The war on drugs (including sections on uses and expansion of mandatory minimum sentencing laws, evidence issues, appeals, family and target perceptions of governmental wrongdoing)…
