The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation: Distinguished Scholar

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation supports work in the social and natural sciences and aligned disciplines to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence in the contemporary world.

The Foundation is interested in violence related to many subjects, including but not limited to the following:
•    War
•    Crime
•    Terrorism
•    Family and intimate-partner relationships
•    Climate instability and natural resource competition
•    Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict
•    Political extremism and nationalism
The Foundation supports research that investigates the basic mechanisms in the production of violence, but primacy is given to work that makes a compelling case for the relevance of potential findings for policies and approaches intended to reduce these ills. Likewise, historical research is considered to the extent that it is relevant to a current situation of violence. Examination of the effects of violence are welcome insofar as a case is made that these outcomes serve, in turn, as causes of future violence.