Project Grant SLMAQM21GR3487

The Department of State Bureau of Conflict Stabilization Operations awarded Conflict Dynamics International Inc. a $1,975,000 cooperative agreement to provide political dialogue process facilitators with expertise to successfully facilitate the process in Sudan. This award falls under the Conflict and Stabilization Operations federal grant program (CFDA 19.121), which aims to strengthen U.S. national security by breaking cycles of violent conflict and supporting stabilization of strategic...

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...

The Conflict Sensitivity Facility (CSF) Activity will provide $3.4 million in support through September 2024 to integrate conflict sensitivity principles and methods into development strategies, policies, programs and practices of aid actors and partners in Sudan. Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development through the Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas program, Saferworld USA Inc. will deliver analysis and knowledge products, targeted capacity building, and convening and...

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...

The USAID - OM awarded Democracy International, Inc. a cooperative agreement worth $56,901,642 under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas to implement the SYSTEMS TO UPHOLD THE CREDIBILITY AND CONSTITUTIONALITY OF ELECTIONS IN SOUTH SUDAN (SUCCESS) program in South Sudan from October 1, 2013 to September 30, 2021. Democracy International, Inc. provided subawards to nine organizations, including the South Sudan Democratic Engagement Monitoring And Observation Program, Foundation for...

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 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 $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 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 United States Institute of Peace provides $149,721 to American University to support research on "WHOSE PEACE? HOW LOCAL-GLOBAL NETWORKS SHAPE THE SUCCESS AND FAILURE OF MULTILATERAL CONFLICT PREVENTION AND PEACEBUILDING EFFORTS" from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. The grant is funded through the Priority Grant Competition program under the Conflict Management and Mitigation Assistance program (CFDA #91.005), which aims to increase the...