This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $493,504 to create a novel dataset and conduct research on cooperation in multi-dyadic civil conflicts. Led by researchers at the University of Iowa, the project will develop the Cooperation in Civil War: Multi-Dyadic Conflicts Dataset covering 12 post-Cold War countries. This dataset will capture the evolution of cooperative relationships between governments...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under CFDA 47.075 (Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) will provide $200,000 in funding to the University of Chicago to conduct collaborative research examining how organizations have sought to resolve international crises and strengthen governance and trust globally. The research will trace efforts from the end of World War I to the present, drawing on history, international relations, sociology, and political science to understand the...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports the further development and extension of the Correlates of War Militarized Interstate Dispute (COWMID) dataset. The $300,000 award, effective from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will leverage supervised machine learning and natural language processing techniques to collect and classify militarized interstate events from newspaper articles...
This Project Grant award of $442,321 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences supports research at Syracuse University to create a comprehensive global dataset on interstate and intrastate war since 1750. The project aims to answer three key questions: 1) Has the frequency of war declined over time? 2) Are some regions more peaceful than others? 3) Has interstate war declined while intrastate war has increased? The resulting dataset and research...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $200,000 awarded on February 1, 2022 will fund research to gather and analyze survey data on citizen perspectives regarding peace, security, and human rights in a post-conflict environment. Under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the University of Massachusetts will field three public opinion surveys in a post-conflict country using random domain intercept technology to collect anonymous samples. The...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $836,874 to the University of Maryland, College Park from October 2022 through September 2025. The award will fund research on the effectiveness of drones, air power, and modern coercion in armed conflict. Specifically, the Principal Investigator will generate new cross-country data on the use of offshore military capabilities in interstate disputes from 2001-2021...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, provides $284,853 to the University of Maine System to conduct collaborative research on how cooperation dynamics drive organizational outcomes. The project aims to improve understanding of organizational evolution by testing a novel theory of organizational change based on "altruistic stress" - the psychological stress from unreciprocated cooperative...
This $101,769 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the "Subnational Nonstate Actor Governance (SNAG) Project". The project aims to develop a new measurement strategy and public dataset to track territorial control by non-state actors within conflict zones over time. Leveraging machine learning and natural language processing techniques, the project analyzes open-source text data to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $167,154 project grant to Texas A&M University from June 2021 through May 2023. The grant supports the "Integrative International Interventions: Militant Violence and Human Security in Contemporary Conflicts" project under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The project aims to contribute to scientific understanding of basic research and education in social, behavioral...
This $114,810 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research project titled "HNDS-R: Altruistic Stress, Economic Networks, and Endogenous Organizational Change." The project examines how cooperation dynamics can drive organizational outcomes through a collaboration with a network of consumer cooperatives. The research team will develop a model of a generic organization...