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Project Title
For research and analysis on international peace and security
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The Arab region is a locus of internationalized armed conflicts and foreign policy interventions that require analysis and communication from experts on and in the region. With Corporation support, the Center for International Policy (CIP) will develop more transparent and accountable U.S. security assistance policies toward the region and educate the public and policymakers on the effects of existing policies. CIP will continue its work documenting arms sales, security assistance, and military training in the region through the Security Assistance Monitor (SAM) program, and launch new programming to increase the accessibility of U.S. defense-related legislative initiatives.
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For the U.S.-Russia Relations Initiative
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resulting war have created a new level of adversarial relations between the United States and Russia, while disrupting formal diplomatic communications and significantly curtailing academic and professional interactions. Yet scholarship and engagements remain paramount for managing conflicts, preventing miscalculations, and educating a new cadre of experts. The U.S.-Russia Relations Initiatives seeks to promote greater understanding of U.S. and Russian foreign relations and to foster expertise among upcoming specialists. With renewed support, the Initiative will continue a set of activities, including in-person and virtual academic conferences, jointly taught courses, faculty engagements, visiting appointments, and public events.
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For international peace and security projects
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The Henry L. Stimson Center (Stimson) is a leading independent think tank on international peace and security, providing analyses and outreach on a range of interconnected issues to increase understanding of global challenges and spur policy development. Created in part with Corporation support, Stimson connects American and international experts and practitioners across various societal sectors, conducts research, and develops practical suggestions for policymakers and broader audiences. With renewed support, Stimson will continue work related to China and South Asia, nuclear nonproliferation, and renewable energy’s effect on climate change. The work will result in publications and outreach activities to relevant communities in the United States and abroad. This grant is complementary to, but separate from, the grant in support of Russia’s future global and regional roles.
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For the Congressional Partnership Program for staffers
Date
Mar. 09, 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 limit their ability to focus on complex or long-term challenges. In addition, political divides have narrowed the space for those on the Hill to engage in policy conversations with peers across the aisle. Partnership for a Secure America addresses these challenges through its Congressional Partnership Program for staffers. The program provides educational sessions with subject matter experts and bipartisan forums that build trust, negotiation skills, and relevant knowledge on peace and security issues. With continued Corporation support, the program will hold biannual sessions as well as alumni initiatives.
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For the Aspen Institute Congressional Program
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
The Aspen Congressional Program is a nongovernmental, nonpartisan, educational series for members of Congress. Through its work, senators and representatives get the opportunity to delve into complex and critical foreign policy issues with international experts, explore policy options, and build relationships that are critical to finding solutions to today’s global challenges. With renewed support, the program will sponsor regular breakfasts with expert speakers for congressional Members on timely international developments of relevance to U.S. foreign policy. The program will also host its annual international gathering for Members and foreign policy experts in summer 2023 and produce a conference report.
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For a project on Russia’s future global and regional roles
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a major rupture in geopolitics, with far-reaching ramifications for security in the 21st century. As Russia’s war in Ukraine continues to escalate with a rising possibility of a direct military confrontation between the United States and Russia, dialogue between the two sides aimed at averting the dangerous outcomes is essential. As a leading non-governmental organization working on international peace and security, the Stimson Center will aim to organize consultative meetings between American and Russian experts on the risks of conflict escalation. The Center will also conduct scenario forecasting exercises, to predict potential trajectories for the conflict and their ensuing consequences for American and world security. The research will result in reports that will be shared with the appropriate policymaking communities.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
There is an increasing need for trusted information regarding some of today’s most persistent threats, among them cyber, pandemics, climate change, and nuclear. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (the Bulletin) is a media organization that provides knowledge-based and scientifically-grounded information to serve as an authoritative guide to managing existential risks. Its iconic Doomsday Clock, which moves to mark proximity to danger, draws attention to its mission. Over the next grant phase, the Bulletin will seek to support a new generation of experts and thought leaders and connect them to a global audience advocating for change.
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For a project on Russia and the West
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
36 months
Description
Tensions in the relationship between Russia and the West, exacerbated by the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, pose immediate and longer-term security risks. The conflict has reduced official engagement with Russia and limited non-official contacts. The European Leadership Network (ELN), a non-governmental organization working on Euro-Atlantic security, engages with early career, mid-level, and senior European and Russian experts from the policy world, academia, and the private sector to build an intergenerational network that can discuss Euro-Atlantic security challenges with an eye toward identifying and providing practical, real-world approaches to addressing them. ELN also uses its international groups to conduct analyses of critical security issues and convey them to relevant policy officials.
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For a congressional education project on international security
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
35 months
Description
Members of Congress and the staffers who support them play an important role in determining U.S. foreign and national security policy, including during crises. This necessitates familiarity with the range of foreign policy tools and options available to them. The nonpartisan Institute of Politics and Global Affairs at Cornell University works to raise understanding of international affairs. In partnership with the United States Institute of Peace, the Institute invites bipartisan groups of Representatives or Hill staffers to participate in “Peace Games” simulations. Participants are drawn from relevant committees and include established and newly-elected lawmakers. Through the workshops, the members and staffers engage with regional and subject-matter experts to discuss and determine policy choices within the posed scenarios.
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For a project on legal approaches to proxy warfare in Southwest Asia and North Africa
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The Southwest Asia and North Africa region continues to be the world’s most lucrative market for arms transfers. Research has shown that these exports contribute to the prolongation of conflicts, as well as to human rights violations, atrocity crimes, and proxy warfare between regional powers. With initial Corporation support, the American Bar Association (ABA) convened an interdisciplinary team of senior experts to examine cases of proxy conflicts in the region, describe their legal status, and develop guidance for policymakers, regulators, industry leaders, and multilateral organizations on due diligence and compliance with international norms. With renewed support, the ABA will build on the interest and engagement demonstrated through the first phase of the project, to familiarize both governmental and civil society actors in Southwest Asia and North Africa with the available legislation and accountability mechanisms of exporting countries and international organizations.
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For a project on building political legitimacy in the Arab World
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
39 months
Description
Support for civil society is integral to promoting good governance and social cohesion. In collaboration with local researchers and organizations, a team of social scientists based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) will build on current Corporation-supported work to advance academic and policymaker knowledge on civil society and the civic state in the Arab region. The project will convene working groups, facilitate professional development opportunities for early-career scholars, and propose recommendations to policymakers and civil society actors on supporting civic values in the region. With renewed Corporation funding, the project will produce research, policy publications, a comprehensive historical analysis of civil society traditions in the Arab region, and expand collaboration through workshops with local partners in the region.
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For core support to Forum on the Arms Trade
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
24 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
36 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
24 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
42 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 continued Corporation support, this network of scholars centered at Brown University will 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 in protracted engagement in conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere. The Quincy Institute (QI) aims to open the space for a national debate about U.S. national security and foreign policy with greater emphasis on alternative approaches to achieving policy objectives. With Corporation support, the QI will continue and expand its Non-Resident Fellows program with a variety of activities to amplify the fellows’ work and make them visible 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)’s Europe, 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 current positions 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 negotiated settlement. 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 insufficient attention 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 that will 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 organizations and 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 to develop and promote long-term answers to some of the biggest challenges of the 21st Century as part of developing multilateral approaches to global problems. With this funding, it will develop a model for networking the procurement and financing policies of cities in different countries to seed new green industries in construction materials and transportation. It will use the model to create a set of guidelines for coordinating financing and industry development and convene mayors and purchasing officers through partner networks to disseminate the guidelines. Allowing cities to pool purchasing and borrowing power will lead to price reductions and encourage scaling new industries.
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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 places professors, researchers, and public intellectuals at academic institutions around the world. Renewed funding from the Corporation will enable IIE to provide direct support to scholars at risk from the Arab region and neighboring countries, and to strengthen and expand partnerships with academic institutions focused 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 UN Security Council (UNSC) are siloed and focused on engagement between states to address crises. They include civil society voices occasionally and randomly, but limit them to consultations about advocacy versus substance. The Meet the Parties project will strengthen inclusion within the UNSC by creating procedures and a platform to break down barriers. Its goal is to systemize inclusion within multilateral diplomacy. In addition, the project will contribute to academic knowledge 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 openness and accountability in the 1122 program of the Department of Defense (DOD). The initiative is part of a web of DOD programs that allow states and local governments to access federal sources of military equipment 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. Its documents 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 in U.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. With renewed funding, UC will 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 at scale. 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, and sustainable 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
36 months
Description
Scholars from the Arab region face numerous challenges to their research, teaching, and careers due to increased costs of education, lack of funding, limited research tools and capacities, and restricted public space and debate. Founded in 2019, the Arab Political Science Network (APSN) works to enhance scholarly 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 and develop 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 a vehicle to build collective capacity to pursue systemic change. This grant will support the Growth Philanthropy Network’s efforts to align the philanthropic sector on 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 decades SERP 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 support will go towards a one-day event on the 20th anniversary of SERPs founding that will showcase their work and key 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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