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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 2000, Scholars at Risk (SAR) is an international network of higher education institutions and individuals whose mission it is to protect scholars and promote academic freedom, free inquiry, and free expression. The SAR network includes over 500 institutions in 39 countries that participate in its three core activity areas: protection; advocacy; and research and learning. With Corporation support, SAR will continue to assist the growing university academics and students who have been displaced, arrested, and, worse, threatened by death by arranging refuge in temporary teaching and research positions, while providing life and career saving advice, referrals and other services.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
15 months
Description
The relationships in a young person’s life, particularly relationships with positive and caring adults, have a critical impact on their ability to access educational, employment and civic engagement opportunities vital to their development and our nation’s economy. Yet sixteen million of America’s 46 million young people do not have a trusted adult in their lives whom they believe they can turn to for guidance outside of their family or home (Civic Enterprises, 2014). National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR) seeks to build out a national mentoring infrastructure so that every student in the United States has a quality mentor that provides the support they need growing up. This general support grant will enable MENTOR to advance the national mentoring movement by supporting work in three key areas: 1) affiliate network support and development; 2) capacity building; and 3) public awareness and mobilization.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
While most schools aspire to engage the families of their students, they often lack the knowledge, skills and capacity to do so effectively in a manner that overcomes the negative experiences many parents have had with school and/or with public institutions broadly. For parents and educators to realize the potential of their collective impact as partners in the education of all children in their school, they first need to get to know each other, see beyond difference, build trust, and find common ground. They then need safe spaces to build their knowledge and skills to be able to influence the composition and allocation of resources that affect their students’ education. Kindred, a nonprofit organization founded in 2016 has found that creating separate spaces for educators and families to explore their identities, experiences with education, understanding of institutional, interpersonal and institutionalized racism and its effect on schooling is a critical first step before educators and families can partner in reimagining and co-designing equitable educational experiences for children. With Corporation support, Kindred will expand its dialogue model and create a digital guide and network for parents with the information and agency they need to shape the experiences and outcomes for their children.
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For general support as part of a matching challenge
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
15 months
Description
Teach For All is a global network of organizations in more than fifty countries that seek to develop collective leadership to ensure all children fulfill their potential, by recruiting promising leaders to teach, investing in their training and development, and fostering their ongoing leadership as a force for systemic change. The global organization builds awareness, assists promising local entrepreneurs to launch organizations in their countries, and supports network partners in their efforts to achieve scale, increase student and teacher learning and achievement, maximize the individual and collective impact of alumni, and build high-performing organizations. Teach For All provides unique value by connecting partner staff, teachers, and alumni to share innovations with colleagues around the world and to learn from and adapt promising ideas in their own countries. This is a matching grant for general support.
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For core support to the African Leadership Centre
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
34 months
Description
Building on previous Corporation-funded work, the African Leadership Centre (ALC), which co-exists at King’s College London (King’s) and in Nairobi as an independent center, will continue its support of African-led peacebuilding research and training, grounded empirically on the continent. The ALC offers several programs, including a master’s degree and a joint Ph.D. program at King’s and the University of Pretoria. In 2017, the ALC launched a research agenda that focuses on critical topics at the nexus of peacebuilding and leadership with an emphasis on joining theory and practice. Research teams bring together senior and emerging scholars and practitioners to build knowledge across disciplines. ALC’s growing alumni network connects African universities and policy bodies to conduct high-quality field research and share results with an interested policymaking audience.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Since the end of the Cold War, congressional knowledge about nuclear threats has diminished even as associated risks remain high. Moreover, nuclear policy issues have become increasingly politicized. The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation serves as an authoritative source of information, analysis, and policy outreach on nuclear issues. With continued Corporation support, the Center will expand its educational and outreach efforts. It will conduct activities to engage congressional offices and other policymakers on topics such as the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs, U.S.-Russia tensions, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 2020 Review Conference, and technological change.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Today’s complex global dynamics present multiple challenges to human rights throughout the world. Human Rights Watch (HRW) is one of the world’s leading organizations dedicated to upholding human rights standards. Mistreatment of migrants, constraints and attacks on civil society organizations and journalists, and increasing xenophobia have brought heightened attention to human rights violations in a number of regions. By raising awareness of and investigating these abuses, HRW is able to engage the involved public, civil society, governments, and intergovernmental organizations. This grant provides for general support to HRW to continue its important work in defending human rights whenever and wherever they are being undermined.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1886, the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) aims to turn Jewish scholarship into transformative action. JTS works to achieve its mission by training thoughtful, innovative leaders—rabbis, cantors, educators, lay leaders, and scholars— as well as by providing lifelong learning and professional development to alumni, adult learners, and Jewish communities in the United States, Israel, and around the world. JTS includes an undergraduate college; a rabbinical and cantorial school; a graduate school of education; a graduate school for Jewish studies; centers for pastoral education, spiritual arts, interreligious dialogue, and immersive programs; and a program in social entrepreneurship. With Corporation support, JTS will continue to mentor the next generation of Jewish leaders who will bring creativity and innovation to schools, congregations, nonprofit organizations, and communities.
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For Jean-Marie Guehenno’s book project, The Second Renaissance: In search of a New Balance Between the Individual and the Collective
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Jean-Marie Guehenno argues that we are living in a new Renaissance, in a time of changing political, technological, and social realities and that individual ideologies are strengthened, transformed and amplified through the internet, emboldening challenges to the legitimacy of certain societies. With Corporation support and under the auspices of the Carnegie Council, Ambassador Guehenno will write a book that will help policymakers, scholars, and members of the general public to think through the significant forces reshaping societies and the risks that come with the increasing concentration of power. The book aims to steer public discussion toward possible alternative systems, institutions, and arrangements that better diffuse power and acknowledge different types of legitimacy and representation.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
In an increasingly crowded and contested world and marketplace of ideas, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) offers global, independent, and strategic insight and innovative ideas that advance international peace. With six global centers and an international staff spread across more than twenty countries, CEIP focuses on the significant drivers shaping an emerging global order with programs that seek to: inject local realities and perspectives into policy debate and design; prevent and mitigate collisions of global consequence; bridge the gap between the pace of technological, political, and economic transformations and the global policy response; and invest in the next generation of thought leaders in international affairs.
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As a one-time only core support grant to honor an Andrew Carnegie legacy museum on the 100th anniversary of his death and on the 25th anniversary of The Andy Warhol Museum
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four museums comprised within the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1926. The museum is the steward of Andy Warhol’s life, art, and legacy and is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion through its exhibitions, learning, and public engagement programs. The Corporation will honor the Museum on its 25th anniversary with a grant in support of the Warhol’s continuing work to educate and engage the public, through their youth programs that address contemporary issues in society,the LGBTQ + Prom initiative which offers a safe, gender-inclusive space, the Youth Arts Council, and on and off-site education programming in the greater Pittsburgh community.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
In 1903, Andrew Carnegie donated $1.5 million to create a palace for peace, a court to resolve international disputes, and a library of international law in the Netherlands. The Carnegie Stichting (Carnegie Foundation) manages the Peace Palace Library and Permanent Court of Arbitration. The Carnegie Foundation aims to fulfill its mission of advancing peace through law, arbitration, and dialogue by engaging diverse stakeholders in discussion about peacemaking. In recent years, the Carnegie Foundation has expanded programming and activities, holding approximately fifty large-scale events per year that convene people with different backgrounds in conversations about peace. With Corporation support, the Carnegie Foundation will continue to foster dialogues around international understanding and cooperation.
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For core support of its Immigrant Justice Program
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
18 months
Description
In recent years, Latinos in the United States have become the subjects of harmful political rhetoric and anti-immigrant policies that traumatize families and disrupt entire communities. Asylum seeking parents from Central America continue to be separated from their young children at the southern border and the federal government is executing widespread deportation raids, leaving spouses and children often unaware of their detained family’s whereabouts. With continuous and deepening attacks against immigrants and immigration laws, preventing further erosion of the legal immigration system is paramount. LatinoJustice PRLDEF has been using legal advocacy, community education, and impact litigation to protect and defend the civil rights of Latino immigrants since 1972.
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Project Title
As a final grant for the Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
36 months
Description
Emerging technologies continue to reshape the dynamics of nuclear deterrence, coercion, and stability. This project, led by the University of Virginia, draws on an interdisciplinary and international community of scholars to explore these trends. The project builds on a foundation set by the Corporation’s initial investment in the Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation (POSSE), an international consortium of emerging scholars. This is the final grant to this initiative, which for a decade has helped advance the scholarship and careers of an international cadre of scholars, and has contributed to what some academics have termed a “renaissance in nuclear security studies.”
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For a Nuclear Security Dialogue between the U.S. and Russian Academies of Sciences
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
With arms control between the United States and Russia in disarray, there is need for continued dialogue between pragmatic technical experts. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) will continue a longstanding dialogue with bilateral Track II meetings over two years to investigate current problems and see if common ground can be found. These dialogues, which will focus on strategic stability, arms control, and technological change, build a technical foundation before moving to policy implications.
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As a one-time grant for a continental policy forum on the role of the academic diaspora in Africa's development
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
69 months
Description
Rapid growth of the higher education sector in sub-Saharan Africa requires academic staff and resources to accommodate rising enrollment. However, with increased scientific mobility, many sub-Saharan Africans with graduate degrees emigrate. Those who stay abroad constitute an academic diaspora that offers a pool of intellectual resources to train the next generation of African academics. Several ongoing fellowship programs enable African academic diaspora to contribute to Africa’s higher education through postgraduate supervision, training, curriculum development, and joint research opportunities. This grant will support a forum and workshop to showcase innovative models for academic diaspora engagement for African Union Commission member policymakers. The grant will also enable the development of guidelines for implementation and support of diaspora policy.
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For a project on media education and training
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
32 months
Description
In today’s world, youth are turning to online platforms and social media as their primary sources of information and communication. Studies have shown that media literate youth are better able to understand the complex messages emanating from their media environment. With support from the Corporation, the Jordan Media Institute (JMI) in cooperation with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) will develop and pilot media education materials and training programs, targeting students and teachers in select Arab region countries.
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Project Title
For the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
36 months
Description
Academic and policy challenges of the Middle East have grown more urgent with the proliferation of political unrest, popular movements, and unresolved governance issues. The international scholars network known as the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) is responding to these developments by increasing the public impact and policy relevance of political science specialists on the Middle East. With Corporation support, POMEPS has developed a distinctive model combining a network of junior and senior scholars, events and workshops, career development activities, and successful publication platforms. With renewed support, POMEPS will continue to mentor and expand internationally, produce podcasts and publications, and hold thematic workshops and book launches.
Project Title
For enhancing and promoting scholarship on and in the Arab region
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Civil conflict and authoritarian governance have both catalyzed and constrained critical and informed 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 a wide array of academic disciplines. This project expands the networks, research, publishing, and public profiles of multidisciplinary Arab scholars. It supports the integration of their social science scholarship and legal research with policymaking and civil society activity, with the ultimate goal of gradual but sustained impact on public life in the Arab world. With continued Corporation support, GMU will develop online tools, sponsor conferences and workshops on social science and legal issues, and expand the productivity of Arab scholars.
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For a project on political and societal changes within the Arab states
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
In the past eight years no fewer than four countries have descended into conflict in the Arab region, while many face political and economic challenges. In many cases, central governments’ control over previously marginal areas has grown weaker, as new contenders for state authority have rushed to fill power vacuums. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) will canvass the underlying sources of societal and political unrest in areas of North Africa and the Middle East. Moving beyond the currently dominant approaches that are focused on security and terrorism, the project will provide a more comprehensive review of the drivers of political and societal changes that are unfolding in the regions. The work will entail policy-relevant research, publications, dissemination, workshops, and network-building activities. The outputs will be aimed at governments, as well as key stakeholders in the region and beyond.
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For a project on local governance under decentralization in Oman and the Arab region
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
30 months
Description
The devolution or decentralization of authority and public services often appears as a top policy recommendation for Arab states. The Program on Governance and Local Development (GLD) at the University of Gothenburg will promote policy-relevant research on decentralization, initiating cross-national studies and analyses on the topic that will include experts and practitioners in the Arab region. With Corporation support, GLD will produce and disseminate policy-relevant research; strengthen and expand networks of scholars in the Arab region, sub-Saharan Africa, the United States, and Europe; and establish policy dialogues on different models of decentralization and local governance.
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Project Title
For confronting the challenges to nuclear nonproliferation and arms control
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Nuclear security and nonproliferation challenges continue to test the leadership of the United States, its allies, and the broader global community. For three decades, the Arms Control Association (ACA) has played a key role as analyst, publisher, communicator, and convener on nuclear developments. With continued support from the Corporation, ACA will focus on building bipartisan understanding of nuclear weapons policy, including the future of current nuclear treaties, missile defense plans, options for avoiding a U.S.-Russia arms race, and policies on nuclear testing and modernization. ACA will continue to produce publications and hold events to bring its research to the attention of policymakers, the media, and the public.
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Project Title
For the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
While an effective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is critical to preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and ensuring peaceful access to nuclear technology, the IAEA faces a growing mandate without commensurate budget growth. The Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation (the Vienna Center) conducts research, education, outreach, public education, and networking activities in support of nonproliferation and disarmament. The Vienna Center has established itself as a unique platform for academic and research institutes to engage the IAEA and other Vienna-based international organizations. With support from the Corporation and other funders, the Vienna Center works closely with numerous research organizations to host events and tailor outreach to Vienna audiences, and has become an important venue to discuss innovative ideas in support of the IAEA mission.
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For research and education on emerging proliferation challenges
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
The nonproliferation and arms control regime is increasingly challenged by emerging technologies and gaps in the governance regime. The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) plays an important role in bipartisan education and outreach to help policymakers deal with these technical and political challenges. With continued support from the Corporation, NPEC will build on its existing nuclear policy course and fellowship program, which has been designed specifically for Capitol Hill and Executive staff, journalists, and foreign diplomats. NPEC’s curriculum has been developed with prominent nonproliferation practitioners and is focused on the nuts-and-bolts skills critical to effective policy practice. These education opportunities are especially relevant in today’s partisan climate. In addition, NPEC conducts research on emerging threats and has a diversified outreach effort to share its findings.
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For bootcamps on strategic force analysis and technological change
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
50 months
Description
Technological advancements are changing deterrence dynamics, but emerging scholars have few opportunities to learn the methods necessary to assess these shifts. Few programs at government agencies or academic institutions teach these methods even as the demand for this analysis continues to grow. Through this project, Georgetown University will collaborate with Sandia National Lab in Albuquerque, New Mexico to organize two seminars for mid-career international security scholars on nuclear force analysis and related approaches. This grant builds on previous Corporation support to RAND Corporation to foster a network of next-generation experts with the training necessary to understand and engage in these debates.
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For training technical policy experts on new technologies
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
There are too few independent analysts with deep technical proficiency who focus on issues of nuclear verification and deterrence. Through this project, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will train graduate students and develop future researchers in nuclear security, with a particular focus on emerging technologies. These doctoral students will focus on the implications of advances in precision guidance and mobile missile tracking, as well as on how advances in information theory might be applied to future warhead verification.
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For two advanced courses on arms control and nuclear risk
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
42 months
Description
Changes in the political and technological landscape will require new approaches and a new generation of experts and practitioners from diverse national backgrounds. Isodarco will provide opportunities for young professionals to build their expertise and networks through two residential advanced courses on the impact of new technologies on international security. These courses bring together experts for a week-long seminar on how political tensions and technological change are shaping nuclear risk, with particular emphasis on crisis- and arms-race stability. Each course will involve roughly fourteen senior lecturers and fifty early- and mid-career participants, primarily graduate students from the United States, Europe, Russia, Asia, and Africa.
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For a project on alternative policy solutions
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
30 months
Description
A key hurdle facing the Arab region is the development of concrete and specific policy recommendations towards inclusive economic development. Alternative Policy Solutions (APS) is a program based at the American University in Cairo that aims to produce coherent and detailed public policies in key areas of socio-economic development, integrating the inputs of stakeholders. The APS team includes some of Egypt’s finest economists and researchers who use their expertise to draft policy solutions in the fields of economic development, resource management, and institutional reform. APS is also building a network of young policy experts and scholars across the region, versed in inclusive development as well as the technical know-how of participatory policy production. Corporation funds will support staff costs, public events, consultation sessions, workshops, training, and publications.
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For a project on security assistance, corruption, and prolonged conflict
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
30 months
Description
Policymakers have demonstrated demand for research on the role of American security assistance in dynamics of conflict and corruption. Transparency International (TI) is a global nongovernmental organization that works with governments, businesses, and civil society to prevent the abuse of power through transparency. Within its mandate, it has been documenting the impact of defense industries on government policy agendas in Western Europe and the United States. With renewed support from the Corporation, the project will seeks to fill gaps in understanding corruption risks in security sector assistance and help to develop better policy tools to mitigate these risks. Corporation funds will support research, workshops, staff costs, and publications.
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For the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Workshops and the Arab Political Science Network (APSN)
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
39 months
Description
Academic networks and capacity-building opportunities are essential to expanding cohorts of dynamic young scholars working to build local knowledge on the Arab region. The American Political Science Association’s Middle East and North Africa (APSA MENA) Program supports political science research and networking among early-career scholars across the MENA region. With previous support from the Corporation, APSA MENA has advanced institutional-level impact through a series of workshops, departmental collaborations, research grants, and other academic opportunities. With continued support, it will expand alumni program services and nurture a regionally-based Arab Political Science Network. Corporation support will go toward staff costs, workshops, publications, scholarships, and departmental grants.
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For a project on the future of the state in the Middle East and North Africa
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Social scientists, analysts, and policymakers from the Arab region are coming to grips with the changing nature of their respective states, including formal, informal, non-state, and hybrid actors in both governance and security sectors. However, Western policy priorities often seem far removed from these debates; the avenues that link social scientists and policy experts from the Middle East and North Africa with policymakers in the West continue to be limited in opportunity and scope. The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) will bridge regional experts with their counterparts in Western states, in order to develop a platform for policy frameworks that are more realistic and inclusive. The project will entail the use of online communications by an expanding network of experts to share research and discuss findings, and a set of written products and events to reach the Western policy communities and the general public.
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For research collaborations and professional development for displaced Middle East scholars
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
36 months
Description
Deteriorating conditions for academics in parts of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are affecting scholarly productivity, access to field sites, and scholar mobility. The current scholar rescue and scholar mobility support programs do not adequately meet with needs of the displaced communities. In consultation with leading scholar mobility providers, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Middle East Studies Association have designed a Global Academy to fill existing gaps. Through an established network of transregional institutional partnerships, this multi-funder initiative will: forge peer-to-peer networks; identify professional opportunities; and sustain research collaborations, mentoring, and knowledge production among displaced MENA-based scholars and their counterparts outside the region. Corporation funds will support workshops, publications, a new website, academic conferences, and grants for travel and research.
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For a project on security and geopolitics in a global Middle East
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
18 months
Description
The post-Cold War liberal order is shifting with global developments, including those in the Arab region. Scholars in both North America and the Middle East are engaging in research on the international affairs of the region, focusing on interlocking war economies, securitization, and prolonged conflicts. This planning grant will support the convening, research, and communications activities of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst dedicated to engaging the Arab regional scholars and practitioners in developing new frameworks for understanding the emerging world order in relation to contemporary challenges. The activities will entail meetings, panel discussions, policy briefs, public commentaries, working papers, and podcasts.
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For the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
32 months
Description
The student population is expected to double every ten years in several countries of sub-Saharan Africa over the next 30 years. Without a timely expansion in faculty development, the future quality and relevance of higher education in the region will be undermined. In this context, the academic diaspora represents a large intellectual resource for capacity building and innovation. Since 2013, the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP), a partnership of The Institute of International Education (IIE) and United States International University-Africa has supported 397 diaspora fellowships at 138 institutions in participating African countries, resulting in updated curricula, increased research output, and access to funds. With continued Corporation support, CADFP will offer 138 diaspora fellowships with opportunities for academics to participate in conferences, workshops, and field work.
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For support of early-career, doctoral, and postdoctoral candidates and a pan-African doctoral academy deploying diaspora linkages
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
48 months
Description
Reflective of population growth, socio-economic development, and increased participation rates across sub-Saharan Africa, higher education enrollment in Ghana is growing at two percent annually. A new policy of providing free secondary education will further impact the sector in 2020, when University of Ghana’s (UG) first-year intake is projected to double. In addition to its own faculty development, UG is expected to provide academic staff for other universities to benefit the country. UG’s faculty profile has progressed significantly with support from the Corporation beginning in 2010. With continued support, UG will further improve the credentials and productivity of UG faculty through postdoctoral and doctoral training and research, international conference participation, and diaspora fellowships.
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For a competitive fellowship program for early-career academics
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
36 months
Description
To achieve its goal of becoming a research-led university, Makerere University must increase its capacity to nurture and retain talented emerging researchers, assisting them to strengthen their research, publication, outreach, and postgraduate supervision skills. This grant will support a university-wide competition to identify potential research leaders at the lecturer level—holding a PhD with a promising postdoctoral research track record—and award fifteen of them with comprehensive research fellowships. Fellowships will include funding for research, disciplinary training, departmental strengthening, and publication support, with at least seven fellowships awarded to women. Under the guidance of a mentor, fellows will supervise a master’s student, produce at least two peer-reviewed publications, and disseminate research results to an appropriate public audience.
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For a study and policy dialogues on the impact of private universities on public universities in Africa
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
73 months
Description
The past three decades have seen accelerated expansion of private universities in Africa. Despite the high number of matriculated students seeking university admission, public universities have inadequate space to admit them. Policy approaches on private higher education vary, but private universities have in many cases alleviated the burden of access placed on public universities. However, not much is known about the evolving patterns and impacts of private universities on public universities in Africa. This grant will support a research study on the impact of private universities on public universities in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, and Kenya, and two regional policy dialogues to disseminate learnings.
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For support to launch a doctoral program in public policy
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
30 months
Description
The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) formed in 2011 with the initial aim of developing a collaborative master’s degree program in public policy. Currently, thirteen universities in seven African countries run the Master of Research and Public Policy course, graduating 137 students to date. PASGR also launched several other initiatives, including a workshop series on social research methods, which has served more than 1,000 researchers. PASGR’s new collaborative doctoral program will be offered by four universities—the Universities of Botswana, Dar es Salaam, Ibadan, and Pretoria—and aims to boost public policy research and research training capacity. This grant will support fellowships for fifteen students and the development of a training module for supervisors and an interactive, on-line doctoral process management guide, among other activities.
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For participation of African academics in the Talloires Network Leaders Conference
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
27 months
Description
The aims of higher education in most sub-Saharan African countries are linked with national development and poverty reduction. African universities have made significant strides in community engagement through extension programs, locally-relevant research, and outreach to communities. The Talloires Network (TN) is a global coalition of 385 university presidents, vice-chancellors, and rectors in seventy-seven countries whose mission is to strengthen the civic roles and social responsibilities of higher education. TN seeks to engage expertise of African university leaders through participation in its biennial Talloires Network Leadership Conference (TNLC 2020), and developing a global classification system for university community engagement. Corporation support will contribute to participation of twenty-five African university leaders in research, workshops, and TNLC 2020.
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As a one-time only grant for a convening of Corporation-supported postdoctoral fellows
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
51 months
Description
Research communities are growing gradually across Africa. However, early-career researchers often experience isolation as these small communities are geographically dispersed and academic disciplines operate in silos, making it difficult for researchers to collaborate. Since 2016, the Corporation has supported nine postdoctoral programs, serving fellows based in African higher education institutions. In April 2019, South Africa’s National Research Foundation convened a small group of fellows from these programs. Recognizing the value of such meetings, the fellows requested support to organize a larger postdoctoral convening. This grant will support a convening at University of Pretoria Future Africa Institute, bringing together an estimated 120 postdoctoral fellows–seventy funded by the Corporation–for peer-learning, networking, and professional training workshops.
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For a biennial conference of African university leaders, and media programming
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
The Association of African Universities (AAU), a core organization for exchange of information and cooperation among institutions of higher education in Africa, will host its 51st biennial Conference of Rectors, Vice Chancellors and Presidents of African Universities (COREVIP) in Cairo, Egypt, July 8-11, 2019. During the event, AAU’s 360 member universities will deliberate on this year’s theme, “The Role of Higher Education Institutions in Promoting the Continental Education Strategy for Africa.” Corporation support will contribute to the participation of thirty-three African academics and educators in COREVIP. In addition, the grant will support AAU’s new broadcasting initiative, AAU TV, which spotlights African higher education sector through interviews and related programming.
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As a one-time only grant for participation of African early-career academics in a continental conference
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Despite increases in African humanities research output over the past decade, revitalization of the humanities has proven uneven across disciplines. The Building Africa’s Future on African Philosophy conference, hosted at the University of Dar es Salaam, October 28-30, 2019, is the third in a biennial series devoted to bringing together academics to present ideas, experience mentoring, and benefit from conversations with well-established African scholars in the critically under-resourced discipline of philosophy. The grant will fund conference attendance of up to twenty-one early-career African academics, with emphasis on building upon the decade’s long work of the African Humanities Program (AHP). AHP fellows will be given a priority and encouraged to present papers, network, and submit to publish in a continental humanities journal.
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For strengthening Russian area studies
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Since the end of the Cold War, the study of Russian domestic, economic, political, and security developments has atrophied at American universities. This has led to diminished capacity in the United States to assess and understand Russia at a time when the relationship between the two countries has reentered an adversarial state. To expand and deepen both the study and training of Russia within the U.S. academic institutions, the Corporation is supporting a few Russian area studies programs, including at Indiana University (Indiana). With renewed support, Indiana will continue a variety of advanced research and training programs, including seminars, fellowships, visiting appointments, and research publications.
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For expanding and enriching the study of Russia in the United States
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
The state of Russia-related research and graduate training in the United States has seen a steady decline in federal funding and scholarly interest since the early 1990s, creating a shortage of rising experts with adequate training. The Harriman Institute at Columbia University is committed to promoting Russia-related training and research, as well as broadening interest in Russia among faculty and graduate students who might not otherwise pay attention to the country. Building on previous Corporation support, the Harriman Institute will engage in a set of activities, including training, research, policy-relevant conferences, public and media outreach, and exchanges with Russian institutions. The intent of these efforts is to deepen and expand the knowledge about Russia in the United States.
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For the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia)
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
For almost three decades, the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), created with Corporation support, has served as an international network of scholars from North America, Russia, and other countries in post-Soviet Eurasia, aimed at advancing the members’ research, publications, and outreach in the areas of security, politics, economics, and society. Currently comprised of over 130 academics, PONARS Eurasia has become a source of authoritative information and analyses, as well as policy-relevant conferences in the United States, Russia, and select countries of Eurasia. With continued support, PONARS Eurasia will sustain and expand its activities that include policy-relevant workshops, conferences, briefing papers, and podcast series.
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For enhancing academic and public policy understanding of Russia
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
The state of Russia-related research and graduate training in the United States has seen a steady decline in federal funding and scholarly interest since the early 1990s, creating a shortage of rising experts with adequate training. Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CERES) is a primary source of trained specialists on the region. CERES graduates pursue careers in government, think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, and business. With previous support, CERES has been expanding and deepening its training, research, and outreach programs. CERES will continue these programs with an added element of connecting Russia and Eurasia specialists to the concerned media.
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For a project on Russia and the West
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
The tense relationship between the West and Russia has potential implications for global stability. At such times, unofficial communications between academic and expert communities from both sides of the divide could help in averting risks and improving understanding. The European Leadership Network (ELN)—an organization dedicated to building bridges between the West and Russia—brings together early-career, mid-level, and senior European experts from the policy world, academia, and the private sector for conversations among themselves and with their Russian counterparts. ELN also uses its international networks to conduct analysis of critical issues of relevance to Euro-Atlantic security. Its materials are widely distributed to policy officials and the general public in the West and in Russia.
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For training and research on nuclear and international security
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
27 months
Description
Since the end of the Cold War, several programs have strived to connect American and Russian foreign and security policy specialists at universities and think tanks for the joint exploration of issues of mutual concern. The Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland (CISSM) has been building such connections with support from the Corporation. CISSM programs have entailed research, training, informed debates, and exchanges. At a time of strained relations between the United States and Russia, maintaining contacts between the academic communities has the potential of reducing risks and misunderstandings. Continued Corporation support will enable CISSM to carry on its activities with the goal of contributing to these efforts.
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For the Foreign Policy Fellowship Program to educate congressional staffers
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
The United States Congress plays a key role in shaping foreign and national security policy, but the demands on the time of both members and their staff leave limited opportunities to focus deeply on complex or long-term challenges. The Foreign Policy Fellowship Program (FPFP) of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars offers the opportunity to improve staffers’ knowledge of foreign policy issues and reduce polarization and partisanship on Capitol Hill. The FPFP brings professional committee staff and legislative staff from Republican and Democratic offices from both chambers of Congress together for a series on critical peace and security challenges. It also organizes learning visits to different countries for alumni. The FPFP will continue these programs with Corporation support.
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For the Congressional Partnership Program to educate congressional staffers
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
27 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 limits their chances to focus on complex or long-term challenges. At the same time, the political divides have narrowed the space for those on the Hill to engage in policy conversations with peers across the aisle. The Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) aims to address 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 two three-month training programs, three alumni dinner series, and an international learning trip each year.
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