The police are often key actors in conflict processes, yet there is little research on their role the production of political violence. Previous provides us with a limited understanding part play preventing or mitigating onset escalation conflict, patterns repression and resistance during durability peace after conflicts resolved. By unpacking state security asking how assigns tasks among them—...

The last few years have witnessed an increase in democratic “backsliding” the United States—a decline quality of democracy, typically accompanied by influx non-normative behavior, such as political violence. Despite real consequences support for violence, fairly little is known about extremist attitude outside studies terrorism or aggression. Using a unique survey containing many psychological,...

To the Editor: Violence, previously considered a social issue, is now an acknowledged public health problem. It is defined as the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against another person, against oneself, or against a group or community, that results in injury, death or deprivation. 1 In this study we focus on exposure to the interpersonal type of violence, which...

Implementation of current international consensus guidelines regarding mental health and psychosocial support in emergencies requires the consideration of findings from both the medical and social sciences. This paper presents a multi-disciplinary review of reported findings regarding the relations between political violence, mental health and psychosocial wellbeing in Nepal. A systematic searc...

We consider the conditions of peace and violence among ethnic groups, testing a theory designed to predict the locations of violence and interventions that can promote peace. Characterizing the model's success in predicting peace requires examples where peace prevails despite diversity. Switzerland is recognized as a country of peace, stability and prosperity. This is surprising because of its ...

We investigate the relationship between low-level political violence and communication patterns. Using network traffic from all Orange Côte d’Ivoire cell towers and 400 million calls from 500,000 randomly sampled cell phone subscribers, we show that in the days preceding small violent incidents, call volumes increase, driven by more active subscribers. Average call length decreases and calls be...

This paper explores the relationship between violence and displacement during civil war focusing on two different forms of population movements (i.e. incoming and outgoing), and two different forms of violence (i.e. direct and indirect). The paper explores the relationship between displacement and violence at the local level in the context of a civil war fought conventionally using a novel data...

Little is known about the impact of traumatic experiences and stressful life conditions on people in low-income countries who live in conditions of ongoing political violence. In order to determine the prevalence and predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depression (MD) among Palestinians subjected to chronic political violence and upheaval, we used a stratified multi-st...