“None of Us Dared Say Anything”: Mass Killing in a Bosnian Community During World War II and the Postwar Culture of Silence …memory of local violence. Here, local-level analysis revealed how violence created new, under-researched dynamics of nationalism, in which daily incidents triggered traumatic memories of violence that led to momentary eruptions of…
HFG Distinguished Scholars …Highest priority is given to research that addresses urgent, present-day problems of violence—what produces it, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it. The Foundation is interested in violence…
Provisional Irish Republicans: Ten Years On …matter what, will not stop their involvement in political violence until they achieve the political goal they seek. From the 1920s, when the Irish Republican Army forced the British to…
“You Have to Crack Down on Gun Offenders”: A Conversation with Peter Moskos …Reduction Project, in which you invite a variety of people to explain how they would reduce violence. Are there good ideas out there that you’ve been unearthing beyond Cure Violence…
“Tensions Are Very High”: Ahead of Côte d’Ivoire’s Controversial Presidential Election, Peace and Reconciliation Remain Unfinished …from amnesty. In his field research and interviews, Abugbilla found that this contributed to the sense that the trials were being used as political tools to punish political foes rather…
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…
Pakistan’s Educational System and Violence: Is There a Connection? …of news; knowledge of Islam, Pakistani history, United States politics, and international relations; the nature of violence; and judgments about justice and injustice, including justifications for violence. The survey rendered…
Race/Ethnicity, Space, and Political Culture: A Comparative Study of Collective Violence in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles …Political Culture: A Comparative Study of Collective Violence in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.” That book incorporated brief accounts of the above-mentioned race riots and set the stage for…
Social Violence and Religious Conflict in Late Medieval Valencia My HFG-supported project explores violence within the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities of the kingdom of Valencia (Spain) as well as violence between these communities in order to shed new…
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…
