Social Science Research Council
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For support of the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa fellowship program
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
36 months
Description
The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) programs support African scholars to conduct research on peacebuilding, conflict, security, and development. This grant renewal will strengthen one of Carnegie’s signature investments in African peacebuilding. Over the next three years, SSRC plans to sharpen its focus by expanding targeted support for early-career and first-year PhD scholars, strengthening doctoral supervision and research methods training, and harnessing digital technologies for networking and knowledge sharing (blogs, podcasts, policy briefs, working papers, and webinars). The project will grow alumni-led activities and new regional hubs in Nigeria and South Africa, building on successes in Kenya. Future cohorts will be organized around three high-impact themes—critical minerals and conflict, great-power rivalry shaping African affairs, and digital peacebuilding with emerging technologies—ensuring a critical mass of policy-relevant scholarship.
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For support of the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite the varied and complex nature of local conflict dynamics, international organizations, and global powers continue to play an inordinately large role in these processes. This has long been the case in Africa, where a new “Great Game” among external forces is complicating already daunting challenges. Understanding the crucial importance of African expertise and leadership for peacebuilding on the continent, the Social Science Research Councilcontinues to advance a pipeline of African scholars producing rigorous and relevant research on conflict-affected countries and neighboring region and disseminating these insights to policy and academic networks in the region and globally through the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation Social Scientists (Next Gen) projects.
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For support of the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
African countries’ political evolution continues its turbulent advance. Political protests in Nigeria, political revolution in Sudan, civil war in Ethiopia, and long-term ongoing conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are just a sampling of the vibrant and challenging developments affecting peace and security across the continent. Despite the varied and complex nature of local conflict dynamics, international organizations and global powers continue to play an inordinately large role in these processes. Understanding the importance of African expertise and leadership in these political and peace processes, the Social Science Research Councilcontinues to advance a pipeline of African scholars producing rigorous and relevant research on conflict-affected countries and neighboring regions through the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation Social Scientists (Next Gen) projects.
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For support of a conference and digital platform commemorating the 75th anniversary of the publication of Gunnar Mrydal’s "An American Dilemma"
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
In 1944, Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal produced, “An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy,” a landmark project on the complexities of racism in the United States. Myrdal’s work was famously cited by the Supreme Court in decisions invalidating racial covenants and school segregation. It was also crucial to desegregation of the armed services. Seventy-five years later, the United States is still struggling with racial antagonism and socioeconomic disparities at all levels of society. With Corporation support, the Social Science Research Council will host a conference marking the 75th anniversary of Myrdal’s landmark publication, around which the council will also catalog and curate the Myrdal Research Collection. The conference will not only assess and review Myrdal’s work, but also debate the enduring legacies of the national dilemma it explored. The research collection will provide insights into the methods and methodologies used by the many social scientists who contributed to Myrdal’s project, as well as make available lines of inquiry which did not appear in the final product.
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For the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Africa continues to be home to the world’s longest and deadliest conflicts. Over the past twenty years, a major critique of conflict resolution and security initiatives across the continent has been that these conflicts are externally-configured, -led, and –implemented. To increase and elevate African voices, agency, and leadership in the peacebuilding field, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) created the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) projects with initial funding from the Corporation. Together, the projects support the pipeline of African scholars based on the continent producing rigorous and relevant research on conflict-affected countries and neighboring regions. Research is made available to the academic community, as well as packaged in digestible and useful ways for the international and African policy communities. Renewed support will enable the continuation of the two projects.
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For a project to help develop cooperative solutions to problems involving security on the Korean peninsula and in northeast Asia
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
0 months
Description
North Korea’s nuclear program poses grave challenges to the global nonproliferation regime and the peace and security of Northeast Asia. Negotiation and engagement are essential for addressing these challenges. In support of government-to-government negotiations, the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project engages in unofficial Track II dialogues involving experts, former officials, and current officials acting in their unofficial capacities from North Korea and the United States, as well as from China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea. The meetings explore ways to sustain the formal negotiation process and provide expert inputs on nuclear, missile, and other security issues arising in these discussions.
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For the Anxieties of Democracy program
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Democracies are dependent on a number of core institutions, such as elections, mass media, political parties, and legislatures. When these institutions do not operate effectively, democracy can fail. Through its Anxieties of Democracy program, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) conducts research on how democracies, and particularly the United States, can be strengthened to govern more capably and legitimately. The program’s activities include working groups, a media project, international partnerships, Democracy Fellows, a fellowship, and a communications strategy. Corporation funding will be used towards supporting the convening of the five working groups, comprised of some 70 academics, journalists, nonprofit leaders, and policymakers, focused on the following themes: institutions, participation, climate change, national security, and inequality and distribution.
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For a fellowship program to promote doctoral research and writing on peacebuilidng by African social scientists
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
30 months
Description
The Social Science Research Council’s “Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship Program” aims to increase the number of promising African university-based academics focusing on topics related to peacebuilding in Africa. The program provides competitively-awarded fellowships for dissertation proposal development, dissertation research, and dissertation writing. Fellows must be based in universities in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, or Uganda. The program also offers skill-building workshops and conference travel support, which contribute to expanding the fellows’ regional and international scholarly networks. Since the program’s inception in 2011, 150 early-career scholars have benefited from 187 fellowships, and fifty-one fellows have completed their doctoral degrees. This grant will support up to eighty-eight additional fellowships.
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For the African Peacebuilding Network
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Building on its previous Corporation-supported work, the African Peacebuilding Network (APN), based at the Social Science Research Council, will continue its support and dissemination of theoretically-informed and empirically-grounded African research on conflict-affected countries and neighboring regions on the continent. The APN responds to the critical need for policy-relevant research on peacebuilding that is generated by, and reflects the knowledge of, locally-based scholars working in Africa by: supporting new research and analytical capacities; inserting evidence-based knowledge from Africa into regional and global debates and policies on peacebuilding, especially at the United Nations, African Union, and in Washington, D.C.; and facilitating the building of new networks among researchers, and between researchers and practitioners.
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For a project to help develop cooperative solutions to problems involving security on the Korean peninsula and in northeast Asia
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
North Korea’s nuclear and other weapons programs pose grave challenges to the global nonproliferation regime and the peace and security of Northeast Asia. Negotiation and engagement are essential to addressing these challenges. In the absence of government-to-government talks, the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project engages in Track II talks; unofficial contacts with non-officials, former officials, and officials acting in their unofficial capacity from North Korea and the United States, as well as from South Korea, Japan, China, and Russia. The meetings aim to explore ways to resume and sustain formal negotiations and to resolve nuclear, missile, and other security issues likely to arise in those negotiations.
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For a fellowship program to promote doctoral research and writing on peacebuilidng by African social scientists
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For a Digital Culture Program
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For the African Peacebuilding Network
Date
Sep. 17, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For a project to help develop cooperative solutions to problems involving security on the Korean peninsula and in northeast Asia
Date
Jun. 04, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For a competitive fellowship program to promote doctoral research and writing by university-based social scientists in selected African countries
Date
Mar. 07, 2013
Duration
24 months
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For support of the African Peacebuilding Network
Date
Sep. 12, 2013
Duration
24 months
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For a project to help develop cooperative solutions to problems involving security on the Korean peninsula
Date
Jun. 06, 2013
Duration
24 months
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For a project to help develop cooperative solutions to problems involving security on the Korean peninsula and to provide relevant updates to media in Northeast Asia and the United States
Date
Jun. 09, 2011
Duration
24 months
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For a competitive fellowship program to promote doctoral research and writing by university-based social scientists in selected African countries
Date
Mar. 10, 2011
Duration
24 months
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For a peacebuilding policy research network
Date
Mar. 10, 2011
Duration
30 months
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Toward communication and dissemination for a publication on a longitudinal study using data from the Collegiate Learning Assessment
Date
Sep. 16, 2010
Duration
12 months
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Toward a conference of scholars from the United States, Eurasia and the Middle East
Date
Sep. 16, 2010
Duration
12 months
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For planning a program to support early-career social scientists in selected African countries
Date
Mar. 04, 2010
Duration
16 months
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Toward a project on unofficial diplomacy focused on Northeast Asia
Date
Jun. 11, 2009
Duration
24 months
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For a planning grant for a peacebuilding policy research network
Date
Sep. 10, 2009
Duration
3 months
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For a small grants program supporting outreach by university centers on Muslim societies
Date
Sep. 10, 2009
Duration
51 months
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Toward a series of workshops on the uses of social sciences expertise in policymaking
Date
Mar. 06, 2008
Duration
24 months
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For networking and evaluation of a Corporation-supported small grants program in support of Title VI National Resource Centers outreach
Date
Sep. 11, 2008
Duration
11 months
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Toward a longitudinal study of students' cognitive skills growth during college
Date
Dec. 04, 2008
Duration
36 months
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For a small grants program in support of Title VI National Resource Centers outreach
Date
Sep. 27, 2007
Duration
24 months
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Toward the development of a research consortium for New York City schools
Date
Jun. 14, 2007
Duration
18 months
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Toward a project on unofficial diplomacy focused on Northeast Asia
Date
Jun. 14, 2007
Duration
24 months
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Toward a project on unofficial diplomacy focused on Northeast Asia
Date
Jun. 09, 2005
Duration
24 months
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One-time funding toward a project on the challenge of migration within the context of national security
Date
Feb. 05, 2004
Duration
52 months