University of Oklahoma
Project Title
As a final grant for the Center for Peace and Development partnership with the Security in Context Network
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
The Arab region remains a theater of internationalized armed conflicts, interventions, and shifting geopolitical orders that require analysis and communication by international scholars. Since 2020, the University of Oklahoma’s Center for Peace and Development has served as a node of the Security in Context network. The Network involves a team of international scholars working to redefine commonly held conceptions of security and empower policymakers, academics, and others seeking data to foster a more equitable and sustainable world. It supports working groups on multipolarity and financialization as well as graduate student fellowships, events, and publications. Renewed funding will go towardprofessional development,publications, public events, and partnerships with Middle East and Global South institutions.
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Project Title
For the Center for Peace and Development partnership with the Security in Context Network
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
For decades the Arab region has been a theater of internationalized armed conflicts, foreign policy interventions, and shifting geopolitical orders that require analysis and communication by scholars and researchers. In response to these changing circumstances and with Corporation support, scholars have formed Security in Context (SiC), an interdisciplinarynetwork of university nodes promoting collaborative research, policy analysis and outreach on key questions regarding peace and conflict, the political economy of security and insecurity, and international norms. Since 2020, the University of Oklahoma’s Center for Peace and Development has served as a node of the network in the southern United States under the thematic title “Peace, Conflict, and International Political Economy.” In complementarity to partner nodes in the network, this hub will focus ontransnational financial and economic trends affecting the Middle East and other regions. Renewed Corporation funding will supportworking groups,publications, public events, and partnerships with Middle Eastern and Global South institutions.
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Project Title
For the Center for Peace and Development partnership with the Security in Context Network
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
For decades the Arab region has been a theater of internationalized armed conflicts, foreign policy interventions, and shifting geopolitical orders that require analysis and communication by scholars and researchers. In response to these changing circumstances and with Corporation support, scholars have formed Security in Context (SiC), an interdisciplinarynetwork of university nodes promoting collaborative research and policy analysis on key questions regarding peace and conflict, the political economy of security and insecurity, and international norms. The Center for Peace and Development at the University of Oklahoma will serve as a regional node of the network under the thematic title “Peace, Conflict, and International Political Economy.”This research cluster will focus ontransnational processes related to financial and economic trends among others, to understand their impact in Middle East North Africa (MENA) and other regions. Corporation funds will supportworking groups,publications, public events, and partnerships with MENA and Global South institutions.