“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,…
‘We’re Ignoring Our Common Values and Interests’: A Conversation with Monica Harris …Indeed, there is some research to suggest that the very creation of red and blue-colored voting maps leads people to overestimate the extent of American political polarization. Monica Harris, the…
The Czechoslovak Arms Industry and the Changing Face of Global Warfare, 1859–1989 …First and Second World Wars. In doing so, it sheds light on the evolution of the radical political left in Central Europe and the various ways that leftist intellectuals understood…
HFG Journalism Fellowships and Awards …a new way to earn money after selling papers for 42 years. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) As a research organization dedicated to understanding violence in all forms, the Foundation…
Homicide in North Italy: Bologna, 1600–1700 …to condemn participants in vendetta to death, they found themselves made party to revenge violence. The inability of the court to effectively police interpersonal violence is indicative of a developing…
Creating the Illusion of Impending Death: Armed Robbers in Action This article appeared in Crimes of Violence, the Spring 1997 edition of TheHFG Review, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation publication that examined topics of violence in depth. Unlike most sorts…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Announces Its 2023 Emerging Scholars …advance knowledge on the nature of and responses to violence around the world. The scholars are completing dissertations on a range of vital topics including organized crime in Latin America…
“Conflict and Climate: How Global Warming Leads to Global Violence” …how these factors contribute to violence often attributed to climate change. The speakers challenged dominant narratives about climate-induced conflict; noted the impact of war and conflict on the environment itself,…
HFG Senior Communications Manager Job Summary The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) is a leader in developing and disseminating research and other knowledge to examine and address enduring and urgent problems of violence to…
Dominating a Continent: Retribution and Forcible Confinement in North America …how changes in military infrastructure impacted day-to-day violence in areas that recently experienced warfare; and 3. the ways that violence impacted patterns of incarceration in Saskatchewan following the 1885 Resistance….