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    Program News

    1. April 24th 2013Leon Sigal, director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, discusses escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula in "Better Understanding North Korea," a Q&A with the Federation of American Scientists’ Strategic Security Blog →
    2. April 22nd 2013Watch a video recording of the Eurasia Program’s webinar “Cultural Context and Measurement Validity in Comparative Survey Research," the latest in the Issues in Quantitative Methods in Eurasian Studies series →
    3. April 8th 2013Announcing the winners of the 2012 International Dissertation Research Fellowship Photo Competition: single photos, self-portraits, and photo essays capturing the experience of IDRF Fellows abroad →
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    2. CEHI Summer InstituteDeadline: May 15th
    3. Grants for Collaborative Research on Environment and Health in ChinaDeadline: September 1st
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    Religion, Development, and the United Nations

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    1. April 16th 2013"In Korea, Overheated War Rhetoric Obscures Real Dangers": Leon Sigal of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project writes for the International Peace Institute's Global Observatory →
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    Kujenga Amani
    Kujenga Amani

    A new SSRC Forum on peacebuilding in Africa

    Featured Essays

    1. April 10th 2013New Directions in the Study of Prayer grantee Tanya Luhrmann (2012) opens her series of guest op-eds for the New York Times with "How Skeptics and Believers Can Connect" →

Research Matters

Some examples of work conducted by SSRC Fellows.

Research Snapshots

  • Alaniz, Ryan - 'Thank God for Mitch': Development Lessons from Post-Mitch Honduras for Post-Earthquake Haiti
  • Bennett, Brett - A Contested Past and Present: Australian Trees in South Africa
  • Brigden, Noelle - Brothers in the Road: Migration and the Globalization of Love
  • Dua, Jatin - Piracy and the Narrative of Recognition: The View from Somaliland
  • Nolan, Ginger - A Field for the Savage Mind
  • Osman, Wazhmah - An Afghan-American Perspective from the Ground Up
  • Schlotterbeck, Marian E. - Chile’s Reconstruction: ‘Not The Reality They Show On TV’

Book Exchange

  • Carey, Mark - In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society
  • Iskander, Natasha - Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico
  • Ricci, Ronit - Islam Translated

Real Time: Middle East and North Africa

  • Cheta, Omar - I Do Not Fear from this Uprising but I Fear for It
  • Elshahed, Mohamed - Breaking the Fear Barrier of Mubarak’s Regime
  • Iyer, Samantha - More Than A Political Revolution

Other

  • 2010 IDRF Photo Competition Winners
  • 2011 Abe Journalist Fellow Emily Taguchi reports on changes in the Japanese energy industry for Public Radio International's The World

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