This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to the University of Alabama to extend and further develop the Militarized Interstate Confrontation (MIC) dataset from 1993-2014. The project will use supervised machine learning models to identify and code militarized events between countries from newspaper articles, reducing the time and cost of data collection and providing near real-time data...
This Project Grant award of $100,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a research project to study ethical research practices for investigators working in armed conflict zones. The project, titled "Ethical and Responsible Social Science Research in Armed Conflict Contexts," aims to map existing knowledge about the ethics of research in conflict settings, document current practices for 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...
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 $143,126 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at Macalester College to study how the growing scale and organization of scientific knowledge impacts the pace of scientific discovery. The project will apply topological data analysis techniques to bibliometric and grant payment data to examine concept...
This Project Grant award of $150,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) funds a five-year research project from March 2025 to February 2030. The research aims to understand how countries leverage their international economic relationships to pursue geopolitical and economic objectives, a domain known as geoeconomics. The key products and services to be delivered through this award include: Developing a theoretical...
This $400,000 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The project examines the impacts of natural disasters on community resilience, focusing on how disasters disrupt human mobility patterns, aid requests, and voluntary support networks. The research involves analyzing geospatial data from mobile devices, social media, and government records to understand spatial disparities in disaster response...
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 $249,588 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Georgetown University. The grant supports the development of advanced statistical models and forecasting methods to predict forced displacement, a significant national security and humanitarian issue. Key objectives include: Identifying and measuring leading indicators of forced displacement using a range of data sources, including digital...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075), aims to develop a novel Global Surveillance and Censorship Scores (GSCS) dataset. The $197,047 award, with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, will allow the Regents of the University of Michigan to utilize mixed-methods research, including quantitative and qualitative data collection from human rights reports, to...