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University of Chicago’s Interdisciplinary Conference on Violence

February 18th, 2019 - Mika Armenta

Violence may be a complex, wicked problem. Solutions to it are not necessarily true or false, just good or bad. It is a symptom and cause of other wicked problems like poverty, unemployment, education and social inequality—the topics worthy of “policies.” To s... More »

How Our Perceptions of Victims’ Humanity Increases Some Violence, But Not All

January 19th, 2018 - Mika Armenta

Dehumanization is the process through which we come to believe that a person cannot think, feel, and behave intentionally, nor experience right and wrong. A substantial body of literature from the social sciences posits that dehumanization may be the psycholog... More »