“Reckoning with Intimate-Partner Violence after the Pandemic” …violence in areas such as war, crime, terrorism, intimate relationships, climate instability, and political extremism. Watch Panel I: “Weapons of War: Examining Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Zones” Watch Panel III:…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2024 Distinguished Scholars …creating a foundation to support scholarly research on violence. As our grantees always do, the 2024 Distinguished Scholars are investigating violence in its varied forms—crime, terrorism, domestic violence, political ideology…
Dying to Save: Youth Vigilantism, Civilian Joint Task Force, and Counterterrorism in Nigeria …governance in the context of African counterinsurgencies. Weak states are ordinarily not in a position to provide security and other political goods on their own. Given their local embeddedness and…
Insurgent Fragmentation and State Attachment in the Syrian Civil War …costly infighting, most notably when the so-called Islamic State broke away to establish a rival political-religious project in 2013–14. Repeated foreign-backed attempts to unify Syria’s rebel factions behind a central…
Ordinary Soldiers? A Case Study of the Nazi-Soviet War of Annihilation …summary execution of Red Army political commissars and the shooting of Red Army prisoners of war by the division. Additionally, the division’s treatment of prisoners of war, both in times…
Hurt Sentiments and Blasphemy in South Asia …In this book project, I cross political and territorial boundaries to bring together cases of censorship that allegedly “hurt sentiments” of individuals and religious communities. The landmark lawsuits that I…
