This essay appears in our Fall 2025 issue under the headline “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Political Violence.” Georges Sorel, writing in 1908, gave a very different account of violence ...

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Across the world, people of all income levels, religions, and sexual orientation experience abuse from partners, children, and parents. And it can be hard ...

Gender-based violence (GBV) affects women and girls the most, especially during times of crisis or emergency. War, being forced to leave home and poverty make gender-based violence more likely and ...

Rosalind Dixon receives funding from the Australian Research Council and Manos Foundation. She is also Director of the Pathways to Politics Program for Women funded by the Trawalla Foundation. Emma ...

This article was originally published by The Conversation. After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump claimed that radical leftist ...

The use of sexual violence as a weapon in conflict is as old as the Bible – Deuteronomy 21 states that a victor in battle who "hast a desire" for a "beautiful woman" among the captives can "bring her ...

In the wake of two assassination attempts on Donald Trump, pundits have decried the uptick of “political violence.” On the left, folks blame Trump’s “enemy of the people” rhetoric. On the right, they ...

One in five women who become homeless in California flee their homes to escape violence and escalating abuse by an intimate partner, a new analysis of a statewide survey has reported. The study by the ...

Violence against civilians in Colombia is rising amid the various crises facing the government’s Total Peace policy and the strengthening of armed and criminal groups. Between January and May 2024, ...

After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump claimed that radical leftist groups foment political violence in the U.S., and “they ...

A conversation about MAGA’s militancy and the strategies to protect Democracy. Scot Nakagawa, Maria J. Stephan, Sala Cyril. Democracy requires that we make political choices free from bullying, ...

This past week, the right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University. Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Trump’s, was thirty-one years old. Tyler Robinson, a ...