Suzette Brooks Masters Is polarization in the United States laying the groundwork for political violence? It is not a simple question to answer. Affective polarization—the tendency of partisans to hate…

…can inform future studies of ethnic and political violence in borderland regions beyond Ukraine as well as contribute to discussions in genocide studies and social scientific research on political violence….

…reduce violence but harm people. You are advancing a kind of “do no harm” argument on behalf of Cure Violence. But do we know that it actually does what it…

…what I mean? And that’s just using police violence as an example. But there are other types of violence on the communal level that are always impacting people. Health disparities…

…Cape Town). Militarization of University Spaces in Zimbabwe: Institutionalised Political Violence Yahya Sseremba (Political Science, Makerere University). A Historical and Political Inquiry Into the Political Violence in the Rwenzori Area…

What explains violence against civilians in civil wars? Why do armed groups use violence in some places but not in neighboring places with similar characteristics? Why do they kill more…

…violence is really ethnic; for, ethnic violence is more than violence between individuals of different ethnicities. The main obstacle in answering this question is methodological: comparing ethnic and nonethnic wars…

…Salzburg published Tackling the Rising Threat of Polarization and Political Violence outlining urgent steps to reduce political violence and restore democratic trust in countries where this is a problem. The…

…political violence and its aftermath in African urban spaces. My research specifically focuses on the politics of post-conflict urban reconstruction in Mogadishu, which is an under-researched part of the political…

…political violence are increasing in frequency and intensity, assessing the actual likelihood of politically motivated acts of physical harm remains challenging, as does determining what to do about such threats….