The patterns of collective violence in which young chimp males engage are remarkably similar to those of young human males. (discovermagazine.com)
The metaphysical poverty created by mandatory disenchantment can lead populism to seek an ersatz solidarity of ideological homogeneity, and even feelings of empowerment that flow from collective violence. (firstthings.com)
The event, which took place November 3, 4, and 5 at HGSE and the Sheraton Commander Hotel on Garden Street in Cambridge, brought the AME conference together, for the first time, with the annual meeting sponsored by Harvard Law School (HLS) and Facing History and Ourselves, a nonprofit organization that helps increase student and teacher awareness of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism by examining the historic conditions that led to examples of collective violence such as the Holocaust. (gse.harvard.edu)