Project Grant SAQMIP22GR0379

The Department of State Bureau of Conflict Stabilization Operations awarded a $2.96 million cooperative agreement to Conflict Dynamics International Inc. to improve the negotiation-specific capabilities of Sudanese civilian leaders directly engaged in the political dialogue process from September 2022 to September 2023. This award was made under the Conflict and Stabilization Operations federal grant program (CFDA 19.121), which aims to strengthen U.S. national security by breaking cycles of...

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 three-year, $714,600 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program aims to advance understanding of state formation in fragile post-conflict settings. The grantee, the National Bureau of Economic Research, will collaborate with local government and a non-governmental organization to experimentally evaluate a legal capacity building program implemented in a target city. The program has two treatment arms - a "punitive" arm in...

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,...

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 Project Grant award of $639,016 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure supports the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in developing advanced natural language processing (NLP) models and capabilities for conflict and security research. The project aims to expand the public Conflibert language model to support multilingual analysis in Arabic and Spanish, in addition to English. This will empower conflict scholars, security analysts, and...

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 Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $199,434 Project Grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York to support the project "RAPID: OPERATIONALIZING THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH IN THE CONTEXT OF DISASTER RESILIENCE: MEASURING THE SOCIAL BURDEN OF INFRASTRUCTURE DISRUPTIONS" from May 15, 2021 through April 30, 2022. This Project Grant funding will support research to operationalize the Capabilities Approach framework...

This $300,704 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to understand how collectives of socially and economically disadvantaged (SED) individuals and entrepreneurs are using collective action and identities to create inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems and pathways for social mobility. The project will employ qualitative methods including ethnographic observations, focus groups, and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $101,769 to the University of Connecticut provides funding for the "Subnational Nonstate Actor Governance (SNAG) Project". The project aims to develop a new measurement strategy and public dataset to track territorial control of non-state actors within conflict zones over time. This will involve using machine learning and natural language processing techniques to...