‘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,…
HFG Distinguished Scholars …Actors in Transitional Justice Processes towards Taming Political Violence in Conflicting Democracies in Africa Roudabeh Kishi (Political Science, University of Denver). Improving Early Warning Models Outside of Conflict Zones: A…
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…
HFG Launches Multi-year Initiative on Violence, Politics, and Democracy …as “violence” and when is it “political”? Does political polarization precipitate violence? Widely held, or at least broadly reported, presumptions contend that political polarization is increasing, unyielding, and all but…
Political Economy of Memory: The Making, Unmaking and Remaking of the Nigeria-Biafra War …in a manner that elicits passion, discord, and contestation in contemporary Nigeria. Drawing on a political economy approach, this research focused on the following. First, it offered new insights into…
What Do Historians Have to Say About Violence? …City. Arlington Heights: H. Davidson, 51. Eric H. Monkkonen. 1995. Homicide over the centuries. Social Science History 19(Summer): 168; Monkkonen. 1995. New York City homicides. Social Science History 19(Summer): 201-14….
