‘A Healthy Democracy Requires Social Trust’: A Conversation with Ilana Redstone …the people who disagree with me are hateful, stupid, immoral, etc.? That’s what I mean by political polarization. Thankfully, at this point, the actual incidence of political violence in this…
An Unexpected Peace: Understanding Resilient Order and Violence in Multi-Gang Environments …federal government has the same party identification as local governments. For this study, we brought together social science and journalism to create a natural, experimental setting to study why criminals…
The Middle Eastern Military as a Factor in Domestic and Regional Conflict and Violence: A Case Study of the Iranian Army …the officer corps contained individuals and groups possessing political ambitions that were independent of the shah, though not politically radical, and that the stifling of such tendencies as the shah…
HFG African Fellows …Democratic Development in Côte d’Ivoire Benyin 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…
Legacies of the Past and Support for Terrorism in the Basque Country …We found a positive association between these indicators and support for political violence in the 1970s, which indicates that the legacy of political violence in the past has indeed affected…
Conspiracy Beliefs and Violence in American Culture: A Comparative Study of Black and White Separatism …In North America and Europe, race-oriented political and social movements display two salient characteristics: ideologies that are mirror images of one another, and a treatment of race as the functional…
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa …the world as a result of Christian evangelization and changes in family life and political structures that have tended to undermine ideologies of “ancestorship.” Part One ends with a meditation…
Pakistan’s Educational System and Violence: Is There a Connection? …misleading. Government schools do provide a religious education. Islamiyat is a mandatory subject in government schools. Further, some religious political parties operate low-cost or free-of-cost private schools that follow the…
The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict …vengeance; political status reversals spawn resentment; cultural prejudices sustain ethnic contempt. These emotions can become resources for political entrepreneurs. A broad range of Western interventions are based on a view…
International Sanctions against Violent Actors In International Sanctions against Violent Actors, Dursun Peksen, Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis, examines the extent to which international sanctions affect political violence committed by state…
