The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is a private operating foundation that examines enduring and urgent problems of violence, such as war, crime, and human aggression. Through basic and applied research, the Foundation aims to understand the causes, manifestation, and control of violence. The Foundation spreads this knowledge to inform policy, practice, and public discourse and to advance scholarship. The Foundation awards research grants to support distinguished and emerging scholars studying urgent matters of violence in the United States and around the world. The Foundation likewise conducts and commissions original research and publishes relevant research and policy reports. The Foundation also hosts conferences, research seminars, and public conversations on topics of violence.