The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2023-2024 African Fellows …Akande (University of Uyo, Department of Political Science & Public Administration) Separatism and Gender Roles: Exploring Women’s Involvement in IPOB’s Agitations in Nigeria’s South-east Region Adventino Banjwa (Makerere University, Makerere…
“Local or Global? The Future of Peacebuilding in Africa” On May 2, the academic and practitioner worlds converged in a sit-down conversation between Séverine Autesserre, professor and chair of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University and João Honwana,…
Troubled Peace: Explaining Political Violence in Post-Conflict Settings …their military victory and sanction their political power. Post-conflict targeted assassinations are therefore a strategy to establish political hegemony and, as such, they occur in the areas where the winners’…
Violence and Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Comparative Study of Kingston, Jamaica …city, which were founded with the support of the country’s two main political parties in the 1960s and 1970s, have become increasingly less political. My findings support this general observation…
‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence …can enable or contribute to political strife. Amid a volatile election season, the report, ‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’: How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence,…
The Political-Criminal Nexus: Emerging Violent Threat to Governability in the Twenty-First Century One of the more dangerous contemporary threats to the quality of life is the collaboration of the political establishment with the criminal underworld—the political-criminal nexus (PCN). These partnerships increasingly undermine…
Dynamics of Violence in Conventional Civil Wars …a recent trend in political science, the research design consists of systematically exploring intracountry variation (with large-n subnational data) and combining it with additional secondary evidence from other cases in…
“Why We Fight”: Dr. Chris Blattman …Random House: Why We Fight draws on decades of economics, political science, psychology, and real-world interventions to lay out the root causes and remedies for war, showing that violence is…
Remembering Violence and the Transvaluation of the Public Sphere …not reconcile politically rationalized violence with disproportionate excessive violence–its notion of political violence remained resolutely within an enlightenment framework. Amnesty applicants were thus indemnified for political justifications of human rights…
‘A Diffused Climate of Threats and Intimidation’: A Conversation with Daniel Stid Daniel Stid The problem of polarization has been on Daniel Stid’s mind for a while. Trained as a political scientist, Stid has spent time working in government (as a staffer…
