…resource scarcity, economic hardship and increased migration, this year’s first Knowledge Against Violence speaker series event will answer questions about the conditions under which climate change and insecurity exacerbate violent…

This dissertation examines private gun ownership and its sociocultural and political implications in modern China from 1860 to 1949, a period characterized by foreign invasion, constant military conflicts, and political…

…people are getting hurt, people are getting victimized.  What’s happening now is that there is a real conversation about alternative ways to respond. Take domestic violence. When I became an…

…the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). The tremendous surge in Nuer/Dinka violence precipitated by that event mercifully came to an end in January 2002, after the SPLA was reunited by…

…Much of my work focuses on daily practices of violence. I have examined the transition from the improvised abuse in the early camps to the structured violence of later years,…

…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…

…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…

With the exception of homicide, perhaps no offense is more symbolic of contemporary urban violence than carjacking. Carjacking, the taking of a motor vehicle by force or threat of force,…

…rates of violence have been skeptically greeted by criminologists. However, no plausible explanation for persisting high rates of homicide in some cities and very low rates in others has been…

…nonstate responses to revenue violence are examined in a chapter on missionaries, which questions their popular image as humanitarian reformers. Finally, the adjudications of cases of revenue violence are looked…