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Project Title
For core support to Forum on the Arms Trade
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
0 months
Description
In recent decades the Arab region has experienced devastating and protracted conflicts in several countries including Syria, Yemen, and Libya. Research has shown that conflicts in the region have been prolonged and exacerbated by the provision of conventional arms and other forms of security assistance by foreign powers. The Forum on the Arms Trade is a leading convener of experts and organizations analyzing arms transfers, security assistance, and weapons use, with an aim to advance both transparency and policy alternatives. A core support grant from the Corporation will enable the Forum to expand its research and dissemination activities on the impact of arms transfers and security assistance, as well as develop alternative arms transfer approaches. The project will include efforts to train and promote the next generation of experts from a diverse range of backgrounds who will tackle these challenges in the future.
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For core support to the Middle East Program and the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
0 months
Description
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continues to struggle with rapid transformations and governance challenges, climate change, social vulnerability, economic hardship, and political exclusion reverberating across all countries. These issues are the focus of two arms of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut and the Middle East Program in Washington, DC. Both work with experts in the region to provide in-depth analysis of the political, socioeconomic, and security challenges facing the MENA countries, as well as their global ramifications. With core support from the Corporation, the centers will engage in an array of research, outreach, and dissemination activities on regional topics, including the effects of great power competition and geopolitical shifts, with the aim of developing policy solutions that could prove constructive for MENA populations and for broader international peace and security.
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For academic partnerships in the Arab region
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
0 months
Description
The Arab region is currently experiencing conflicts, protest movements, and increasing authoritarianism, which present unique challenges to the application of investigative research methods by social scientists and researchers.However, despite the risks, investigative research remains an essential service of journalism and the knowledge sector. With Corporation support, Arab Researchers for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) will engage in university partnerships to update and expand its investigative research curriculum and improve the capacity of regional and international academics and researchers. Corporation funds will support workshops, instructional design, university outreach, the production of digital and print copies of a curriculum, and staff costs.
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For enhancing publicly engaged scholarship in the Arab region
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
39 months
Description
Civil conflict and authoritarian governance have both catalyzed and constrained critical analysis across the Arab region. Over the past decade, George Mason University (GMU) has emerged as a leading institution enhancing the capacity and visibility of experts in the region across an array of academic disciplines. In collaboration with the Arab Studies Institute based in Lebanon, GMU expands the networks, research, publishing, and public profiles of Arab-region scholars working on such national and transnational problems as state-society relations, economic and cultural affairs, corruption, and prolonged conflict. With continued support, the project will expand its online tools and media outreach,host meetings and workshops, sustain international partnerships, and support scholars in emerging research fields to make their work accessible to academics, policymakers, and the general public.
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For the Costs of War project
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
0 months
Description
Through its authoritative data collection and analysis since 2011, the Costs of War project has been educating the public, media, and policymakers about three categories of costs of recent U.S. armed conflicts:human, economic, and political. The project has been successful thus far in increasing the public’s and lawmakers’ awareness of budgetary costs, but the consequences of war include human casualties – both direct and indirect – as well as environmental damage. With continuedCorporation support, this network of scholars centered at Brown Universitywill produce data and analyses with a growing focus on: environmental impacts of war; the potential for conversion of military industries; effects of militarization on democracy; and morbidity and mortality from destroyed infrastructure that endures post-conflict. Corporation support will go toward research, working meetings, reports, web design, interactive mapping, and media dissemination.
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For support to the Eurasia Program
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
In 2019, a group of American international security experts launched a new think tank in Washington, D.C., The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (QI), named after former U.S. President John Quincy Adams. QI’s programs, including the Eurasia Program, have been engaged in research, analyses, publications, media and policy briefings, on-line and in-person public events, national debates, and other activities. In the coming years, the Eurasia Program will further expand its activities with a focus on Russia’s war in Ukraine and its regional and global implications. QI will also organize expert working groups on topics relevant to international security,including cyber war/cyber arms control; U.S. and Russia interactions in Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the greater Middle East; and European security architecture. The assessments and their outputs will aim to improve knowledge and understanding among policymakers, journalists, commentators, and the wider public.
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For support to displaced and at-risk Ukrainian and Russian scholars
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Russia’s war on Ukraine has led to the loss of thousands of lives and has caused immeasurable damage to the country, including its educational sector. Opposition to the war inside of Russia has also led to the displacement of academic professionals within Russia. Given the magnitude of scholars at risk from Ukraine and Russia, major efforts are under way to enable them to stay within their academic professions. Following a successful pilot program, the American Councils for International Education will leverage its geographical presence and institutional partnerships across the former Soviet region to aid the war-affected Ukrainian and Russian scholars. Beyond the fellowships, scholars will be given access to academic programming and will be included in invitations for proposals for international conferences, seminars, publications, study tours, and international exchanges.
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For fostering the role of social scientists in policy development
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
27 months
Description
Over the past decade, a growing number of social scientists in the Arab region seek to bring their academic and research expertise to bear on public policy agendas. The Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) bridges academic expertise with policy analysis in the Arab region. It provides social scientists with capacities, resources, and venues to inform terms of debate in the public sphere with the ultimate goal of influencing policy development.With renewed Corporation support, ARI will provide capacity-building opportunities for next-generation scholars to expand policy-relevant research and strengthen partnerships between educational and civil society institutions in the region.
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For the Non-Resident Fellows Program
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Over the past three decades, the United States has increasingly deployed its military in pursuit of foreign policy objectives resulting inprotracted engagementinconflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere. The Quincy Institute (QI) aims toopen the space for a national debate aboutU.S. national security and foreign policywith greater emphasis on alternative approaches to achieving policy objectives. With Corporation support, the QI willcontinue and expand itsNon-Resident Fellows program with a variety of activities toamplify the fellows’ work and make themvisible and influential participants in the local and national debate on U.S. foreign policy.
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For Scholars without Borders
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused significant security, economic, and social disruption in Europe, including the dislocation of thousands of academic professors and researchers from Ukraine, Russia, and other states in the region. With Corporation support, the Davis Center at Harvard University will initiate a pilot program to support Ukrainian and Russian academics to continue their scholarship and maintain connections with their peers around the world. The program will entail the development of professional services to help displaced academics outside or within their countries, alongside the formation of an international network. Program principals will cooperate with other nongovernmental institutions assisting displaced scholars in the region in developing and implementing a comprehensive and longer-term approach to supporting trans-national scholarship.
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For research, analyses, and publications on Russia’s war on Ukraine
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Russia’s war on Ukraine is an event of world historic importance that will influence the course of geopolitics through the 21st century. To date, understanding of the war has lacked a comprehensive approach as most analyses have been focusing on disparate episodes, providing narrow and often competing perspectives. This is due to the lack of accurate information from the ground as well as to inadequate expertise on the Russian military. The Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), a leading non-governmental provider of critical analyses on Russian military capabilities will undertake an extensive assessment of the war and its implications for European security order.With Corporation support, the Program will engage in research, publications, dissemination, and policy and public outreach.
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For the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Russia’s war on Ukraine and its isolation from the Euro-Atlantic community call for reliable and high-quality analyses about Russia’s domestic and foreign policies. With Corporation support, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)’sEurope, Russia, and Eurasia Program (EREP) will examine the internal dynamics of wartime Russia with a particular focus on the effects of Western sanctions on Russia’s economy and political stability. It will do so by analyzing internal and external drivers of Russia’s decisionmaking through gathering and interpreting data gathered by EREP and its collaborators. EREP will also focus on Russia’s relationship with the countries of the Global South, by examining economic, trade, and energy policies and interactions. The work will result in publications that will be disseminated through briefings to policymakers, public events, expert roundtables, and a podcast series.
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For the Roundtable on Military Cyber Stability
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Understanding the risks of cyber competition among the three leaders in military cyber power—the United States, Russia, and China—is critical to international security. The Round Table on Military Cyber Stability (RMCS) brings together some 40 practitioners, academics, former government officials, experts, and technologists from the United States, Russia, China, and other countries, into regular virtual and in-person discussions of issues relevant to strategic cyber stability. With renewed support, RMCS will continue to serve as a mechanism for fostering essential interactions aimed at mitigating the threats posed by cyber technologies in such areas as nuclear command and control systems, space systems, and artificial intelligence. The discussions will result in publications and outreach to respective governments.
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For a project on Euro-Atlantic Security
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
The continuation of the war in Ukraine demonstrates the challenges of identifying a possible negotiated settlement that might bridge the currentpositions of Ukraine and Russia. To address this, a project at the RAND Corporation will carry out two sets of activities. The first will entail a diplomacy game. Leveraging RAND’s expertise in game design and execution, it will bring together nongovernmental experts and former officials from the countries in conflict to identify possible pathways toward a negotiatedsettlement. The second activity will entail research and development of mechanisms to uphold a ceasefire as a step toward reaching a negotiated settlement. The project will build on previous Corporation-supported work at RAND on Russia-West relations and will result in publications and policy and media outreach.
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As one-time funding for a project on the role of populism in democracies as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on “Reimagining Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy”
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
36 months
Description
The project presents an innovative and rigorous approach toward understanding and responding to populist rhetoric on social media. It builds on work that started in September 2020 with the collection and analysis of data from 87 democracies. By extending their existing research on elite communications on social media, the project intends to create a comprehensive dataset, analyze the data, and conduct surveys to shed light on the prevalence and consequences of populist rhetoric. The goal is to contribute to the development of effective strategies to combat democratic erosion and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide.
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As one-time funding for a project on centering cities in the global peace agenda as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on “Reimagining Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy"
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
28 months
Description
Urban violence plays an increasingly outsized role in people’s daily lives, accounting for four times as many deaths as within conflict zones, yet it receives insufficientattention and investment, particularly in multilateral systems. By leveraging the Peace in Our Cities network, the project aims to use global action to address local problems and reduce the most serious forms of violence in urban communities as part of exploring multilateral approaches to pressing problems. It will support city leaders with on-demand research, small-scale assistance through pilot projects, and training on effective international engagement. In addition, the project will elevate the issue of urban violence and the role of city actors as essential stakeholders in multilateral institutions through convenings and expanded partnership.
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As one-time funding for the research project, "Understanding and Reimagining US Beliefs about Militarism," as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Reimagining Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
30 months
Description
Defense spending absorbs much of the discretionary budget in the United States, yet there is comparatively little public debate about the role of military and norms of militarism in American foreign and domestic policy. Purdue Policy Research Institute (PPRI) will conduct a comprehensive empirical study on the assumptions that underpin U.S. attitudes on foreign and domestic American militarism thatwill be analyzed with an ethnographic method of focus groups and stakeholder interviews. The work will entail media analysis of national and local news. Webinars will be used to disseminate research results to relevant nonprofit organizationsand research briefs to civil society and Congressional offices.The project will catalyze an informed public debate centered on foreign policy and domestic concerns, as well as enable policy actors to reimagine security beyond military solutions.
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As one-time funding for "a project on multilateral urban investments " as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on “Reimagining Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy"
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
28 months
Description
The Berggruen Institute works across cultures, disciplines, and political boundaries todevelop and promote long-term answers to some of the biggest challenges of the 21stCentury as part of developing multilateral approaches to global problems. With this funding, it will develop amodel for networking the procurement and financing policies of cities in different countries to seednew green industries in construction materials and transportation. It will use the model tocreate a set of guidelines for coordinating financing and industry development andconvene mayors and purchasing officers through partner networks to disseminate theguidelines. Allowing cities to pool purchasing and borrowing power will lead to price reductions and encourage scaling new industries.
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Project Title
For the Scholar Rescue Fund
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
As the number of scholars facing threats to their safety or work has increased globally, IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund has been receiving a record number of applications each year since 2017. Scholar Rescue Fund placesprofessors, researchers, and public intellectuals at academic institutions around the world. Renewed fundingfrom the Corporation will enable IIE toprovide direct support to scholars at risk from the Arab regionand neighboring countries, and to strengthen and expand partnerships with academic institutionsfocused on the region.
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As one-time funding for a project on "Meet the Parties: Strengthening Inclusion within the UN Security Council" as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on “Reimagining Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy"
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
27 months
Description
The multilateral processes of the UNSecurity Council (UNSC) are siloed and focusedon engagement between states to address crises. They includecivil societyvoices occasionally and randomly, but limit themto consultations aboutadvocacy versus substance.The Meet the Parties project will strengthen inclusion within the UNSC by creatingprocedures and a platformto break down barriers. Its goal is to systemize inclusion within multilateral diplomacy. In addition, the project will contribute to academicknowledge on inclusive diplomacy and apply the knowledge to the diplomatic arena.
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As one-time funding for a research and education project on the 1122 Program as part of a Request for Proposals (RFP) on "Reimagining Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy"
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The Center for International Policy, working with Women for Weapons Trade Transparency, will address opennessand accountabilityin the 1122 program of theDepartment of Defense(DOD). The initiative is part of a web of DOD programs that allowstates and local governments toaccess federal sources of militaryequipment to support counter-drug, homeland security, and emergency response activities. By examining the impact of police militarization on marginalized communities, the project will shed light on the ways in which excessive defense spending and the militarization of law enforcement have global implications for democratic values and institutions, as well as international peace and security.
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For core support to the Governance and Local Development Institute
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
36 months
Description
Predicted to be the first region in the world to run out of water, 60% of the Middle East’s population already has limited or no access to safe drinking water. The poverty, refugee, and climate crises are expected to exacerbate existing governance inadequacies. Research and policy development have been hindered by a lack of comparative indicators of governance processes at the local level. Over ten years the Governance and Local Development Institute (GLD), located at the University of Gothenburg, has developed tools to analyze variation in governance, public services, and economic participation, including its flagship Local Governance Process Indicators. With Corporation support, GLD will continue transdisciplinary, transregional research and capacity building, resulting in dissemination through podcasts, reports, academic articles in popular media, and one-on-one meetings with key stakeholders.
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For the Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
As the peace and security field works to reduce the threats of nuclear weapons, climate disruption, conflict, and emerging technological advances, think tanks and institutions need young professionals to contribute diversity and new perspectives. To help ensure the flow of that talent, the Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship (Scoville) recruits emerging scholars and leaders to the field through a competitive national fellowship. Selected fellows work with senior-level policy experts at think tanks; attend policy talks and congressional hearings; receive active mentoring; and network with former fellows and the broader community. Many Scoville fellows have gone on to prominent positions in government, domestic and international nongovernmental organizations, academia, and media.
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For archival programs on U.S.-Russia relations, nuclear security, and cooperative threat reduction
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The National Security Archive (the Archive) is an independent non-governmental research institute and library with the largest repository of declassified U.S. documents outside the federal government. Itsdocuments inform and enrich the latest scholarship on foreign policy and nuclear security.As political tensions continue to drive public narratives, the Archive will advance its mission to advocate for more open government to bolster mutual security;highlight the trends inU.S.-Russia relations;call attention to the persisting dangers of nuclear weapons;and inform key military, scholarly, policy, and media audiences in the United States and abroad.
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For the University Consortium project
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The deterioration in U.S./EU-Russia relations, alongside the decline in Western expertise on Russia, prompted the creation of the University Consortium (UC) in 2015 with support from the Corporation. UC’s original concept connected six universities from the United States, Europe, and Russia to pursue intensive academic and policy-relevant dialogue, training, and exchanges. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine dramatically transformed UC’s composition. With renewed support, UC will continue to promote engagements among Americans, Europeans, and Russians to better comprehend the profound conflict between Russia and the West, but without the participation of Russian individuals or institutions from inside Russia. Withrenewed funding, UCwill also expand its alumni network of professionals.
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As a one-time grant for research and convenings on multilateralism and democracy
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Most of today’s global challenges cannot be managed effectively at the national level and require multilateral approaches. Yet international weaknesses and divisions are significant impediments to reaching effective agreements and solutions. The Kofi Annan Foundation, founded in 2007 with a mission to build a fairer and more peaceful world through dialogue and international cooperation, will use its global standing and reputation to highlight the essential links between democratic leadership and multilateralism in solving global challenges. The project will focus on aspiring young political leaders from around the world as energetic and creative drivers of social change, and will entail research, training, networking, publications, and public and policy outreach.
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For a project on regional expertise and perspectives in MENA
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
25 months
Description
Environmental, economic, and infrastructure resilience have proven key to the Arab region’s long-term security. These, and related challenges of governance and accountability, climate change, and the impact of technology on the future of work, require effective management and regional coordination to mitigate and prevent national and regional conflicts. Research conducted into these topics has largely focused on state-level responses, with limited engagement with regional perspectives of academics and researchers. The Chatham House MENA Programme will implement a project engaging and connecting early career academics and researchers from the region working on thematic issues related to these challenges. The work will result in publications and disseminations.
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For the Congressional Foresight Initiative
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
32 months
Description
Congress plays a central role in determining U.S. foreign and national security policy, and in so doing needs to understand current crises, their underlying causes, and their relationships to broader, longer-term trends. To help the legislative branch with future-oriented thinking, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will engage bipartisan cadres of congressional staffers in discussions about foresight analysis in policymaking. This project will draw on CSIS and external experts to discuss issues that will play an outsized role in reshaping international affairs in the next decade and beyond. Through issue briefings, tabletop exercises, and workshops with leading practitioners, staffers will deepen their understanding of the long-term trends and challenges of key international peace and security issues and learn how foresight tools can support the development of far-sighted solutions.
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For an African research chair program in data science and its applications
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
60 months
Description
The onset of the 4th industrial revolution and artificial intelligence requires graduates with high-level mathematics and data science skills. Through Corporation support, The African Institute of Mathematical Sciences, a pan-African organization headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda, developed a research chair program in data science and its applications with the aim of becoming a leading training and research hub on the continent. The program builds human capacity in data science and its applications to address African development challenges, including healthcare and climate change, through its global network of scientists. Corporation renewed support will contribute to research chairs and associates, postdoctoral, doctoral, and masters’ students; visiting scholars and lecturers; scientific conferences and events; and small research grants.
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For support of web-based research and analysis on North Korea
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
North Korea’s expanding missile and nuclear weapons development has growing implications for U.S. national security, international peace, and the global nonproliferation regime. While diplomacy has stalled, the security situation on the Korean Peninsula continues to deteriorate as the United States and its ally South Korea bolster their deterrence capabilities in the face of increased military threats and actions from the North. At the same time, public and policy discourse on North Korea is often loosely sourced, poorly reasoned, or wildly speculative, leading to skewed perceptions of what can or should be done to solve this decades-long dilemma. In response, the Stimson Center seeks to foster a more informed and measured debate on North Korea among policymakers, nongovernmental experts, the media, and the public by providing accessible content and analysis on its authoritative website, 38 North.
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As a final grant for a learning systems approach in education
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
37 months
Description
Our present education system is challenged by developing and maintaining the conditions necessary for all students to have access to the opportunities and support to master the knowledge and skills necessary for college, career, and citizenship. While we have knowledge of what works, for whom, and under what conditions, we have been challenged by learning from and sharing that knowledge, in order to produce impact atscale. In response, EducationCounsel (EC) developed a framework focused on research and development, continuous improvement, and maintaining a robust data infrastructure. With prior support from the Corporation, EC (I) launched a network to advance the framework, (II) advanced policy to improve R&D infrastructure with a focus on data infrastructure, and (III) collaborated with the U.S. Department of Education to implement aspects of the framework. Additional support from the Corporation will allow EC to continue advancing work in each of these three core strands.
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For core support for the annual Paris Peace Forum
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Since its launch in 2018, the Paris Peace Forum has grown into a multilateral organization convening heads of state and government, international institutions including development banks, and civil society organizations. Its programs foster innovation and public-private partnerships strengthening peace, multilateralism, andsustainable development. The sixth Forum in November 2023 will include work on environmental issues, post-conflict reconstruction, and generative artificial intelligence. Renewed Corporation support will contribute to the Forum’s core operations.
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For the Arab Political Science Network
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
0 months
Description
Scholars from the Arabregionface numerous challenges totheir research, teaching, and careers due to increasedcosts of education,lack offunding, limitedresearch tools and capacities, and restricted public space anddebate.Founded in 2019, the Arab Political Science Network (APSN) works to enhancescholarly capacity and expand the field of political science in the Arab region. With renewed Corporation support,APSN will provide early-career scholars with book proposals and publication workshops anddevelop educational resources, including a podcast series, a video series on new scholarship in the field, and subtitled open-access videos on methods of research and pedagogy.
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For a digital rapid response capability for nuclear crises
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
37 months
Description
Efforts by academic institutions and think tanks to influence nuclear policy tend to focus on policymakers rather than engaging the public. These groups also lack the capacity to produce media quickly and especially the digital media favored by younger generations. Digital Rapid Response (DRR) offers an innovative way to engage the public in nuclear issues by making over 200 pieces of visual content related to nuclear events or crises available for free to organizations for use on digital platforms in real time, when interest is at its highest. With continued support from the Corporation, DRR will produce new content, test and refine the base infrastructure for the rapid response capability, and develop collaborative dissemination strategies.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
Systems failures require systems solutions. However, the social sector and society at large lack the capacity to effectively develop and pursue systems change approaches. Growth Philanthropy Network intends to address that lack of capacity through a multi-sector forum devoted to equitable systems change and racial equity, that serves as avehicle to build collective capacity to pursue systemic change.This grant will support the Growth Philanthropy Network’s efforts toalign the philanthropic sectoron indicators of systems change and advance efforts to collaboratively fund systemic transformation.
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For support of their 2023 Annual Conference
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
6 months
Description
The SERP Institute was incubated at the National Academy of Sciences and founded as an independent nonprofit organization in 2003 to bridge the worlds of education research, practice, and design. Central to all SERP work is a commitment to equity, collaboration, and the agency of teachers and students. Over the past two decadesSERP has released more than a dozen open education resources developed collaboratively in research-practice-design partnerships, and made available to school districts, schools, and teachers nationwide.Corporation supportwill go towardsa one-day event on the 20th anniversaryof SERPs founding that willshowcase their work andkey features of the partnership model.
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As a one-time only grant for support of the Higher Education as a Strategic Asset (HESA) initiative
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
The Higher Education as a Strategic Asset (HESA) initiative, conceived by a team at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), will examine the worsening talent shortage in the U.S. and how our nation can reverse this trend through a coordinated effort by schools higher education. HESA members will include a coalition of senior leaders from business, government, higher education, and non-profit sectors. A Carnegie Corporation grant will support Phase One of this initiative which includes a series of HESA convenings. At the conclusion of these meetings, HESA will present a report of recommendations for strengthening the global competitive position of the U.S. by generating well-prepared talent at scale and speed. The HESA report will be shared with President Biden, select members of Congress, state governors and legislators, and higher education governing boards and chief executive officers by June 2024.Subsequent phases will consist of building awareness and engagement and finally drive full adoption and deployment of a strategy.
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For project support of the Strategic Staffing Funder Group Landscape Analysis
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
6 months
Description
Research shows that access to effective teachers increases the likelihood that a student will graduate from high school, attend college, and earn a higher income. However, access to high-quality instruction has been a persistent challenge in public education, especially in schools that predominately serve black and brown students. Many entities across the nation, however, are working to find ways to reimagine the teaching profession so that more students can receive the instruction needed to prepare them for future success. With support from the Corporation, and in partnership with four additional national funders, Education First will conduct a landscape scan on innovative talent structures and solutions, focused on how we can better meet student needs, particularly of those most marginalized, by redesigning critical adult roles in schools and ensuring those roles are attractive, sustainable and professionally rewarding.
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For the Carnegie Policy Planning Leadership Lab
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
36 months
Description
The Bridging the Gap (BtG) subprogram has largely focused on the supply side of the gap, providing academics with the skills and knowledge to engage with the policy world. There has been less emphasis on the demand side, providing policymakers with opportunities to engage with scholarship. Our efforts have also predominately benefited PhD students in international relations, with comparatively little emphasis on graduates in this field with terminal master’s degrees who pursue careers in the policy world and also received little to no formal training in leadership and organizational management during their studies. To address this aspect of the gap, Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Policy (Maxwell) will conduct a series of training workshops for early- to mid-career policy practitioners with master’s degrees to improve their leadership and management skills and introduce them to the most recent scholarship in their areas of focus.
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For support of the national television program, GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer seeks to promote awareness and understanding of geopolitical, security, and humanitarian developments threatening global stability. The show is based on a premise that many of today’s global trends present obstacles in addressing major challenges of climate change, data privacy, nuclear proliferation, migration, pandemics, and others. GZERO World aims to educate and inform the public about international issues by offering fresh and non-ideological conversations with informed guests from around the world. Renewed Corporation support will contribute to the production of the series.
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For the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The rapid expansion of higher education in Africa has led to challenges in teaching quality, relevance of curricula, and research activity. In this context, the African academic diaspora represents an intellectual resource for capacity-building and innovation by enabling new forms of knowledge generation; access to research networks, laboratories, and materials; and additional sources of research funding. Since 2013, the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) has offered over 650 diaspora fellowships at 190 African universities, supporting teaching and joint research, postgraduate training and mentorship, curriculum development, and in-person and virtual conferences. With Corporation renewed support, CADFP will offer 105 diaspora fellowships, further expanding opportunities for academic diasporaexchange.
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For the China Intelligence Project
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
China’s technological and military advances are reshaping the international peace and security environment. Yet clear understanding of these developments is limited by the Chinese government’s attempts to control information and the challenge of communicating in-depth research findings to broad audiences in the United States. With continued Corporation support, The China Intelligence project, led by New America in partnership with an open-source intelligence organization, BluePath Labs, and the media outlet Defense One, will identify new data and insights from Chinese language documents and media and translatethat information into accessible articles designed for a wide audience.
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As a final grant for Advancing Equity through Common App’s State Solutions
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Common Application (Common App) is a non-profit membership organization representing over 1000 diverse higher education institutions. Common App connects over 1.2 million students and those who support them to a wide array of public and private colleges and universities across all fifty states and twenty countries. Since 2019, Common App has expanded its equity work through numerous pilots, research projects, and changes to the existing first-year application form. Common App has developed a state solution to accelerate the rate at which students from communities below the median household income are able to apply and enroll in postsecondary education. This state solution is built on a foundation of research and pilot work, including a previously corporation-supported nudging initiative, with the goal of increasing application rates by meeting students where they are. Continued support will allow Common App to partner with a state or system to offer direct admission (DA) to high school graduates at diverse institutions.
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For the Robin Copeland Memorial Fellowship to support women in nonproliferation
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
27 months
Description
Despite evidence showing their positive impacts on peace and security, women are underrepresented in the nuclear security and nonproliferation arenas. For the past decade, the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) has sought to increase women’s presence and participation in this critical field through the Robin Copeland Memorial Fellowship. The fellowship provides opportunities for women leaders to deepen their subject matter expertise, enhance their professional skillset, and build a robust international network. With this renewal, CRDF will continue to support a regional cohort of women from key countries, empowering participants to serve as nonproliferation champions at home and abroad.
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As a final grant to the Special Commission on Research Ethics in the Middle East and North Africa
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
38 months
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The practice of social science in the Middle East and North Africa faces complex challenges includingthe ethics of research design and conduct, career development and publishing issues, and very low funding at national levels.In 2020, with an overall aim to improve the quality of social science research on and in the Arab region, the Middle East Institute at Columbia University joined a collaborative effort among the Columbia Global Centers, the American University in Cairo, the Rabat Social Studies Institute, and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences based in Lebanon to establish a Special Commission on Social Science Research in the Middle East and North Africa.The Commission sustained consultations with over 60 experts from the Arab region and the United States and analyzed over 900 cases of funding support, producing a report on the economics of social science in the region. The next phase of support will enable the Commission to implement keyfindingsand develop guidelines to be proposed for adoption by universities and professional associations, donors, and publishers. The project will catalyze discussion of standards for ethical social science research relevant within and beyond the region.
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As a one-time only grant for a project on educational materials related to nuclear security issues
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Although nuclear weapons are increasingly prominent in the news, there are few educational resources to encourage and help students engage with nuclear security issues. GBH, one of the most well-known public television content providers will create educational materials for students in grades 6-12, including video resources, interactive lessons, and materials to support both teachers and students.The goal is to help students interpret nuclear policy through the lens of the history of nuclear weapons, disarmament, and nonproliferation efforts. Students will also develop the knowledge base and argumentation skills to effectively engage in informed civic discourse and to feel empowered to take action on nuclear policy, whatever their position may be.The project includes a student engagement initiative through which students can demonstrate their understanding of the issues and, in the process, encourage interest in these educational materials.
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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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As a one-time only grant for the Girls Advocacy Leadership Program
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
24 months
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Founded in 1998, Women’s Campaign International (WCI) is a nonprofit organization that seeks to equip women to participate actively in public advocacy, markets, and political processes. It focuses on four program pillars: entrepreneurship, public advocacy, public health, and international relief. Additionally, WCI partners with local organizations to provide sustainable workshops that empower women to transform their communities in forty-five countries. Through the Girls Advocacy Leadership Series (GALS) and with Corporation support, WCI will implement a curriculum centered on increasing leadership development among underserved teenage girls in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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As a one-time only grant for support of the Waterford Treasures, Museum of Childhood
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
0 months
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Waterford Treasures is a collection of six museums located within the Viking Triangle, the oldest cultural and heritage quarter of Waterford, Ireland.Its mission is to collect, safeguard, and presentthe rich history of Waterford as well as to ensure that the widest community possible feels welcome in a modern museum atmosphere. Waterford Treasures will builda new Museum of Childhood (the Museum), which has available for display and research more than 30,000 artifacts related to the material culture of childhood in Ireland. The Museum will feature stories about children of rural and urban areas, children from immigrant families, the children of the diaspora, and a crucial element of the fabric of Irish society, childhood in the Irish travelling community. With Carnegie Corporation support, the Museum of Children will work with a Project Board and Project Committee to study Museum building restoration and conservation, exhibition design across various mediums.
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For Russia Matters
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
27 months
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It is critical that the U.S. understanding of Russia is grounded in accurate and factual information. With Corporation support, the Russia Matters website was launched in 2016 to provide empirically grounded analyses, interpretations, data, and debate on the drivers of Russian behavior to anglophone expert andpolicymaking communities, as well asthe general public. With renewed support, the website will continue to expand its content production by commissioning new analyses and research on Russia’s political, economic, and social stability; U.S.-Russia strategic relations; and the future of Euro-Atlantic security. The grant will result in research, publications, convenings, and briefings.
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