Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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As a final grant for strengthening U.S. expertise and knowledge about Russia
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
The Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is the premier national research center established to improve American expertise and knowledge about Russia, Ukraine, and other states in the region through research and exchange. With renewed support from the Corporation, the Institute will provide communication training to scholars in residence, organize briefings in Washington, D.C. with prominent experts on Russia and the region, and administer an active program of public lectures and conferences. The activities will result in publications and dissemination. As the Russia studies field continues to adapt to challenges that have resulted from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Institute will continue to serve as a nonpartisan space for presenting and debating ideas.
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For the Foreign Policy Fellowship Program to educate congressional staffers
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The United States Congress plays a key role in shaping foreign and national security policy, but the demands on the time of both members and their staff leave limited opportunities to focus deeply on complex or long-term challenges. The Foreign Policy Fellowship Program (FPFP) of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars offers the opportunity to improve staffers’ knowledge of foreign policy issues, strengthen their capabilities, and buildstrongworkingrelationshipson Capitol Hill. The FPFP brings together professional committee staff and legislative staff from Republican and Democratic offices from both congressional chambers for a seminarseries on critical peace and security challenges. It also offers masterclasses for senior aides andorganizes learning visits to different countries for alumni.
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For strengthening and mainstreaming U.S. expertise and knowledge about Russia
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
The Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is a premier institution dedicated to the study of Russia and Eurasia. The Institute trains experts on Russia and the region to communicate better with policy and general audiences and provides a nonpartisan space to present and debate ideas. It also administers an active program of public lectures and conferences and disseminates the results of its activities through a variety of publications, reports, and books. Over the next two years, the Institute will continue its work to help improve U.S. understanding of Russia’s domestic, regional, and global policies, while maintaining channels of social and academic dialogue between our societies.
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For the Wilson China Fellowship program for early career scholars
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
30 months
Description
China’s role in shaping economic, political, social, and security developments in Asia and beyond is having profound implications on global peace and stability. From its far-ranging economic reach through the Belt and Road Initiative to its expanding military power, China’s increasing global presence is likely to continue having significant geopolitical impact as the 21st century unfolds. To increase understanding of China’s evolving global role and its relations with the United States, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will support thirty early career researchers through the Wilson China Fellowship program. Through scholarships and mentorships, the fellows will bring new ideas and data on U.S-China relations, Asian security, and the global peace and security implications of China’s growing technology and innovation sectors.
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For core support for the Africa program
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Greater inclusion of Africa-based researchers in strategic dialogues can support the development of U.S.-Africa policy by providing on-the-ground perspectives steeped over the long term in local realities. This is particularly critical as U.S. policymakers attempt to address issues of conflict resolution and peacebuilding on the continent. To provide such opportunities, the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars formed the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP), which includes twenty-two key policy and research institutes based in thirteen African countries. In collaboration with SVNP members, theWilson Center hosts fellows and convenes meetings to reach out to U.S. and African policymakers, scholars, and practitioners. Further support will continue these activities.
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For an oral history project on the impact of civil society actors on nuclear risk reduction
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
0 months
Description
Civil society actors have played a role in nuclear security, but their involvement and contributions have not been studied. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will conduct an oral history project on the impact of civil society, in particular academic, foundations and other nongovernmental actors, on nuclear risk. The project team will prepare a lengthy bibliography, collect testimonials, carry interviews, and conduct other activities to elicit views and perspectives of relevant experts. The intent of the project is to showcase the civil society’s successes and failures in the nuclear threat reduction space, so as to better align future engagement strategies.
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For the Foreign Policy Fellowship Program to educate congressional staffers
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The United States Congress plays a key role in shaping foreign and national security policy, but the demands on the time of both members and their staff leave limited opportunities to focus deeply on complex or long-term challenges. The Foreign Policy Fellowship Program (FPFP) of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars offers the opportunity to improve staffers’ knowledge of foreign policy issues and reduce polarization and partisanship on Capitol Hill. The FPFP brings professional committee staff and legislative staff from Republican and Democratic offices from both chambers of Congress together for a series on critical peace and security challenges. It also organizes learning visits to different countries for alumni. The FPFP will continue these programs with Corporation support.
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For engaging African peacebuilding scholars and practitioners to inform policy dialogues in the United States through the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Greater inclusion of Africa-based researchers in strategic dialogues can support the development of U.S.-Africa policy by providing on-the-ground perspectives steeped over the long term in local realities. This is particularly critical as U.S. policymakers attempt to address issues of conflict resolution and peacebuilding on the continent. To provide such opportunities, the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars formed the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP), which includes twenty-two key policy and research institutes based in thirteen African countries. In collaboration with SVNP members, The Wilson Center hosts fellows and convenes meetings to reach out to U.S. and African policymakers, scholars, and practitioners. Further support will continue these activities.
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For the Arms Control and Regional Security (ACRS) oral history project
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
The Arms Control and Regional Security (ACRS) process, which ran from 1992 to 1995, remains the only official multilateral security dialogue in the Middle East on Weapons of Mass Destruction, but there is no authoritative documentation of these negotiations. This lack of documentation poses a problem to future negotiators, as well as to scholars and those who wish to understand regional proliferation and disarmament dynamics. Through this project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will gather for the first time the ACRS Working Group participants’ commentaries, recollections, perspectives, interpretations, and accounts of events and experiences during the negotiations. This effort will capture insights for future negotiators, and identify areas requiring special consideration in future negotiations.
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As one-time only grant for support of a series on international relationships for staffers of the incoming 117th Congress
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
43 months
Description
As a major global power, the United States is distinctively involved in regions around the world. To craft effective strategies, policymakers need to understand the policies of, and geopolitical relationships among, the countries of those regions. The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Wilson Center) will engage bipartisan groups of both established and new congressional staffers on the most important of those relationships, with emphasis on how they intersect with the peace and security goals of the United States. Drawing from the Wilson Center’s expertise in regional studies, the project will consist of webinar classes, scenario simulations, and the production of digital content.
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For strengthening and mainstreaming U.S. expertise and knowledge about Russia
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
The breadth and scope of international challenges call for American expertise on foreign countries, regions, and international issues. The Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a premier American institution dedicated to the study of Russia and Eurasia, advances such expertise among the American scholars and practitioners. Kennan programs enhance the capacity of scholars to communicate their findings to policy and general audiences, provide anon-partisan space to present and debate research findings, and promote academic exchanges between the United States and Russia. Over the next two years, the Institute will continue a set of programs, activities, and publications to help improve the U.S. understanding of Russia and offer a solid and objective analytical base for U.S. policy toward Russia.
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For support to the Mainstreaming Russian Expertise project at the Kennan Institute
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
18 months
Description
Despite Russia’s importance to global stability, mainstream discussions about Russia often lack nuanced political, social, and cultural perspectives needed to understand the country and its behavior at home and abroad. A project of the Kennan Institute (Kennan), a division of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, aims to examine Russia in-depth and bring its findings into the broader domestic dialogue on U.S. national security and foreign policy. Kennan will convene small group sessions of researchers, thought leaders, and experts in Washington, D.C., and New York to bring greater public awareness to the U.S.-Russia relationship.
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For a fellowship program for early career scholars on China and Asia
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
33 months
Description
China’s role in shaping economic, political, social, and security developments in Asia and beyond is having profound implications on global peace and stability. From its far-ranging economic reach through the Belt and Road Initiative to its expanding military power, China’s increasing global presence is likely to continue having significant geopolitical impact as the 21st century unfolds. To increase understanding of China’s evolving global role and its relations with the United States, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is launching a fellowship program aimed at expanding the range of current American scholarship on China and, where appropriate, challenging conventional wisdom. The program will support forty early career scholars and will also include a policy outreach dimension to expose fellows and their work to the policymaking community in Washington, D.C.
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For the Foreign Policy Fellowship Program to educate congressional staffers
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
The United States Congress plays a key role in shaping foreign and national security policy, but the demands on the time of both members and their staff leave limited opportunities to focus deeply on complex or long-term challenges. The Foreign Policy Fellowship Program (FPFP) of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars offers the opportunity to improve staffers’ knowledge of foreign policy issues and reduce polarization and partisanship on Capitol Hill. The FPFP brings professional committee staff and legislative staff from Republican and Democratic offices from both chambers of Congress together for a series on critical peace and security challenges. It also organizes learning visits to different countries for alumni. The FPFP will continue these programs with Corporation support.
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For strengthening U.S. expertise and knowledge about Russia
Date
Dec. 06, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
The U.S. relationship with Russia matters to key U.S. and international concerns, from nuclear security to nonproliferation to international terrorism to regional conflicts. To enhance the understanding of this relationship, the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a premier American institution dedicated to the study of Russia and Eurasia, advances expertise, enhances the capacity of scholars to communicate their findings to policy and general audiences, provides a non-partisan space to present and debate research findings, and promotes academic exchanges between the United States and Russia. With Corporation support, the Institute will continue a set of programs, activities, and publications to help improve the U.S. understanding of Russia so as to offer a solid and objective analytical base for U.S. policy toward Russia.
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As a final grant for the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP)
Date
Dec. 06, 2018
Duration
60 months
Description
Scholars and practitioners still have an incomplete understanding of the forces that drive nuclear proliferation. This results, in part, from a lack of access to closed historical archives, has real-world implications. Over the past decade, the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP) has demonstrated its ability to surface new empirical evidence that offers new insights and challenges outdated assumptions. By supporting researchers through an interlinked network of institutions across fifteen countries, NPIHP has helped revitalize the field of nuclear history. The network will continue research into previously closed archives, facilitate collaboration between scholars, and engage the policy community through workshops, briefings, and media outreach. This final grant will consolidate the partner network as part of a decade-long investment in capacity building, archival research, and outreach.
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For engaging African peacebuilding scholars to inform policy dialogues in the United States through the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Greater inclusion of Africa-based researchers in strategic dialogues can support the development of U.S.-Africa policy by providing on-the-ground perspectives steeped in long-term engagement and local realities. This is particularly critical as U.S. policymakers attempt to address issues of conflict resolution and peacebuilding on the continent. To provide such opportunities, the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars formed the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP), which includes twenty-two key policy and research institutes based in twelve African countries. The Wilson Center hosts fellows from member organizations and, in collaboration with members, convenes meetings to reach out to U.S. and African policymakers, scholars, and practitioners. Further support will continue these activities.
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For support to the Mainstreaming Russian Expertise project at the Kennan Institute
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
15 months
Description
Russia is critical to global stability and U.S. national interests, but mainstream discussions about Russia can ignore some of the political, social, and cultural forces necessary to best understand the country. A project of the Kennan Institute, a division of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, will aim to bring in-depth analyses and research on modern Russia into the broader domestic dialogue on U.S. national security and foreign policy. Toward this end, and with Corporation support, the Kennan Institute will convene small group sessions of researchers, thought leaders, and policy figures in Washington, D.C., and New York.
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For the Kennan-ISKRAN Conference, "210th Anniversary of U.S.-Russian Diplomatic Relations"
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
6 months
Description
The U.S.-Russian relationship is among the most important bilateral relationships from the perspective of international security. Since 2014, that relationship has been steadily eroding, with potentially negative consequences for global stability and the ability of the international community to address the world’s most critical security challenges. With support from the Corporation, the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute and the Russian Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies will convene U.S. and Russian former policy officials and experts to examine and identify practical policy approaches to the most divisive issues confronting the two countries. The grant will result in a comprehensive report and published opinion pieces in both English and Russian.
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For the Woodrow Wilson Foreign Policy Fellowship Program for congressional staff education
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
As the United States Congress has the power to declare war, allocate funding for diplomatic missions and military actions, and advise the Executive Branch on foreign policies, Congressional understanding of complex international issues is essential. The Foreign Policy Fellowship Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (the Center) helps to improve congressional staffers’ knowledge of foreign policy. The Center also strives to build bipartisanship by bringing together Republican and Democratic legislative staffers. The Center’s core activity is a six-week seminar that encourages fellows to debate key issues with some of the nation’s leading foreign policy thinkers and practitioners, including from among the 150 resident scholars housed at the Center. With continued support from the Corporation, the Center will sustain and expand the program.
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For building and sustaining a foundation for productive U.S.-Russia engagement
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
25 months
Description
The relationship between the United States and Russia is important, but broken. The Kennan Institute (Kennan) sees a window of opportunity to normalize bilateral relations. Kennan has leveraged its experience in Ukraine and Russia to bring its top experts from the region to Washington to inform policymakers and the public. It has trained academics to reach students, officials, and media; and briefed policymakers and journalists through programs that feature resident academics and experts. Kennan also brings its talent to engaged citizens across the country. This new work will help academics convey data and analysis to those in government, and sustain understanding, cooperation, and exchange among intellectual and opinion leaders in the United States, Russia, and the region.
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For support to the new Mainstreaming Russian Expertise pilot project at the Kennan Institute
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Current, mainstream ideas about Russia portray it as a resource-dependent economy and represent President Putin as a leader willing to use military power abroad and repression at home. The reality is far more complex; and the United States’ ability to debate and formulate proper policies toward Russia will continue to suffer if outdated perceptions endure. A project of the Kennan Institute, a division of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, will work to inject newer analyses and research on modern Russia into the broader national security dialogue and thereby bring that new thinking into the national conversation on security and foreign affairs. Working with a project steering group in a pilot phase, Kennan Institute staff will convene small group sessions of researchers, thought leaders, and policy figures in Washington, D.C. and New York. The goal is to forge new and enduring expert and journalist relationships.
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For engaging African peacebuilding scholars to inform policy dialogues in the United States through the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Providing avenues for African policy researchers to inform American policy dialogues about the continent expands the diversity of African voices contributing perspectives and offers an opportunity for U.S. policymakers to develop policies that are more likely to succeed and result in stronger and more effective North-South relations. Access to a range of African perspectives is particularly critical as U.S. policymakers attempt to address issues of conflict resolution and peacebuilding in the continent. Building on previous Corporation support, the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Wilson Center) will strengthen its Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding, which currently includes twenty-two key policy and research institutes from twelve African countries—Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Ghana, Liberia, Senegal, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and South Africa—focusing on issues related to peacebuilding and state-building in Africa.
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For the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP)
Date
Dec. 10, 2015
Duration
36 months
Description
Through its work over the past five years, the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP) has shown that new empirical evidence and analysis can help policymakers re-examine long-held assumptions and myths. NPIHP has helped revitalize the field of nuclear history by providing support and training for researchers through an interlinked network of research institutions across thirteen countries. NPHIP procures, disseminates, and archives new evidence and sources by organizing workshops, making requests for archival documents, and supporting research collaboration. NPIHP will engage the policy community through workshops, briefings, and media outreach. This grant consolidates and expands the partner network, building on past investments in capacity building, archival research, and outreach activities.
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For rethinking the U.S. approach toward Russia
Date
Jun. 04, 2015
Duration
3 months
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for the Foreign Policy Fellowship Program to educate congressional staffers
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
24 months
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For building and sustaining foundation for productive U.S.-Russia engagement
Date
Dec. 04, 2014
Duration
24 months
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For research, fellows, and capacity building to elicit and apply local knowledge for peacebuilding and state-building in Africa and inform the American policy dialogue
Date
Sep. 11, 2014
Duration
24 months
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For the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project
Date
Dec. 13, 2012
Duration
36 months
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For a project promoting engagement between the Global North and South on international peacebuilding and statebuilding issues
Date
Sep. 13, 2012
Duration
24 months
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For the Congressional Seminar Series on Foreign Policy
Date
Jun. 14, 2012
Duration
36 months
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For a nuclear proliferation international history project
Date
Dec. 02, 2010
Duration
24 months
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Toward a conference on historical and contemporary perspectives on immigration reform
Date
Sep. 10, 2009
Duration
5 months
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For research, analysis, dialogue and dissemination on states at risk
Date
Mar. 05, 2009
Duration
41 months
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Toward support
Date
Jun. 12, 2008
Duration
20 months
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Toward a project to share best practices in government-Muslim community relationships among the United States, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom
Date
Sep. 27, 2007
Duration
19 months
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As a final grant toward the Centers for Advanced Study and Education in Russia
Date
Sep. 27, 2007
Duration
69 months
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Toward an international forum on the relationship between national security and civil liberties
Date
Sep. 28, 2006
Duration
3 months
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Toward research examining political participation among Arab Americans
Date
Mar. 02, 2006
Duration
12 months
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For research, analysis, dialogue and dissemination on the role of local actors in states at risk
Date
Sep. 28, 2006
Duration
30 months
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Toward the creation of centers for advanced study and education in Russia
Date
Mar. 03, 2005
Duration
30 months
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Toward a forum for Congressional staff on social and economic issues in Africa
Date
Sep. 30, 2004
Duration
33 months
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Toward research, analysis, dialogue and dissemination on states at risk
Date
Sep. 30, 2004
Duration
25 months