This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to the University of Alabama to further develop and extend the Correlates of War Militarized Interstate Dispute (COWMID) dataset. The project will use supervised machine learning models to identify and classify militarized interstate events between countries from 1993 to 2014 based on newspaper article data. This will reduce the costs and time...
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 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 three-year, $546,040 National Science Foundation project grant funds research on cooperation in multi-party civil conflicts. The grant supports the creation of a comprehensive dataset on cooperation between combatants in 12 complex multi-party civil wars since the Cold War. Researchers will analyze how past cooperative attempts within and across government-rebel group dyads influence future cooperation and conflict outcomes. They will also evaluate the diffusion of cooperation across...
This $101,769 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports the "Subnational Nonstate Actor Governance (SNAG) Project". This research initiative aims to develop a new measurement strategy and public dataset to track territorial control by state and non-state actors within conflict zones over time. The project uses machine learning and natural language processing techniques to...
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 Project Grant award of $283,654 was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program and awarded to The Pennsylvania State University on August 15, 2024. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: How International Reputation Accrues Across Multiple Policy Domains", aims to develop a comprehensive theoretical framework to explain how a state's past foreign and domestic policy actions influence its likelihood of...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences has awarded a $550,000 Project Grant to the College of William & Mary under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports the continued development of the GEOBoundaries project, which provides free, transparent, and openly licensed geographic information on geopolitical boundaries worldwide. Innovations under this award include automating data processing, such as...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $399,998 will fund research exploring the relationship between conflict and the expansion of women's political citizenship from 1900 to 2022. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the award was made on July 15, 2022 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the period through June 30, 2024. The project will examine how women's suffrage and political representation have often increased more rapidly...