This $216,778 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research study to assess how the design of transitional justice institutions in post-conflict and post-authoritarian countries affects public opinion and long-term national outcomes like regime type and conflict recurrence. The research team will employ a mixed-methods approach, combining survey experiments in Colombia,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) grant award of $106,969 to Vanderbilt University supports a collaborative research project investigating the legitimacy and efficacy of transitional justice institutions in Colombia, Iraq, and Ukraine. The project aims to assess how the design of transitional justice institutions affects public opinion and shapes long-term national outcomes like regime type and conflict recurrence....
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 $188,094 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports research on the social psychological factors shaping popular attitudes toward territorial concessions in peace agreements during and after the Russia-Ukraine war. George Mason University will conduct surveys and focus groups with 1,800 residents and internally displaced persons across three eastern Ukrainian towns near active conflict zones to examine how...
This Project Grant award of $183,720 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research project focused on "Democratic Accountability and Judicial Legitimacy." The project tracks citizens' attitudes toward a judicial reform effort involving the direct election of over 7,000 judicial positions, as well as the impacts on judicial independence, economic development, and international relations....
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award, funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, will provide $147,609 to Emory University to investigate whether post-conflict economic recovery programs impact social cohesion in displacement-affected communities. The research project will use a randomized controlled trial methodology to examine three key questions: (1) how do economic livelihood programs affect social cohesion between hosts, returnees,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) will fund a $300,000 study on ethical practices for research conducted in armed conflict zones. The project aims to map existing knowledge on research ethics in conflict settings, document current practices around research data collection, storage, and security, and develop best practices and guidelines to protect researchers, subjects, and affected communities. Outputs...
This $191,980 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund research examining the impact of displacement on the development of social preferences and trust in children. The project, conducted by the University of Chicago, will study how displacement caused by conflicts and climate change affects children's and adolescents' social behaviors, trust, cooperation, and adherence to social norms. The research...
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...
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...