For over 20 years, Kenya’s Laikipia region and its neighbours have witnessed violence between January and April over location and geography.
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Most revenge isn’t violent or dramatic, but instead involves petty acts against coworkers or lovers. And some types work better than others.
The DOJ has found excessive use of force in the Baltimore, Ferguson and Chicago police departments. Could a solution be found by seeing the police as victims of violence as well?
Banning orders can encourage personal responsibility and demonstrate that anti-social behaviour will not be tolerated.
Two researchers interviewed military members and vets to see what role first-person shooters played in their lives – before, during and after their enlistments.
Afghanistan’s challenges in 2017 will not be new ones, but those that have lingered from many years of war and violence. They involve armed conflict with the Taliban and related issues of terrorism, attacks…
Data on violent incidents in the US reveal that our focus on Islamist extremism since 9/11 may be misguided.
Governments’ continual use of security forces to ‘keep order’ in low-income and minority neighborhoods masks their inability find solutions other than force.
Media reports tend to link violence to illicit drugs when alcohol is far more likely to be to blame.
Violence is on the rise in French Guiana. To understand this phenomenon, scholars delve into the often tragic history of the region.
No one likes a white supremacist, but is violence the answer?
Time is fixed, but people experience hours, months and days in very different ways. One researcher has spent decades exploring this universal phenomenon.
Presenting violence of any sort as a cultural issue does not help prevent it.
We all get angry, but only some of us are violent – now, researchers are trying to figure out what triggers this harmful behaviour. And they need your help.
Legislation designed to bring large business to book should be deployed to bring accountability to the cell block.
Famously freewheeling – but also violent and unequal – Rio de Janeiro has elected a right-wing former pentecostal bishop as mayor. What’s at stake for this ‘gay, black and tolerant’ Brazilian city?
Social justice is not just a phrase for protesting students. Instead it is something that defines them.
How to psychologically cope with living in a country with more fatalities than a war zone? For Mexicans, the response is increasingly detachment, depersonalisation, and adherence to daily routines.
The Fall writer Alan Cubitt is ‘hurt and upset’ at being accused of misogyny. But maybe misogyny isn’t the point.
South African universities are aflame as student protests for free education turn violent. But, would a non-violent approach, as preached by Martin Luther King, be more effective in their cause?
Top contributors
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Monash University
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Professor of Violence Prevention and Addiction Studies, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Professor of Communication, The Ohio State University
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Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Sociology, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Associate Research Professor of Social Psychology, Louisiana State University
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Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
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Lecturer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Co-Director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Gender and Childhood Sexuality, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor, Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
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Professor of History, The Open University
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
