Description

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation’s Distinguished Scholar Awards support research across the natural and social sciences and allied disciplines that advances understanding of violence and aggression. The program prioritizes urgent, present-day problems: what produces violence, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it. Topics include war, crime, terrorism, family and intimate-partner violence, climate instability and resource competition, racial, ethnic, and religious conflict, and political extremism and nationalism.

The Foundation supports investigations of basic mechanisms, with particular emphasis on findings relevant to policies that reduce violence. Historical research must illuminate contemporary violence. Research on violence’s effects is considered when those effects may cause future violence. The focus is physical harm to people, not metaphorical concepts such as symbolic or structural violence. Awards fund specific projects rather than general research support.