SSRC Work and Experts Related to

Emergency Planning & Recovery

Features and Press Releases

September 24th 2009
AIDS and Security: New Evidence, New Actions
A report published by the AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative (ASCI) provides new evidence and outlines recommendation for actions on the links between security, conflict, peacebuilding and HIV.
August 27th 2009
Social scientists comment on the long-term social and psychological impacts of Hurricane Katrina
January 8th 2009
Experts Available for Interviews on Hemingway's Cuba Papers
January 6th 2009
Bell Tolls for Hemingway’s Papers, and SSRC Answers
Just as Cuba marks the 50th anniversary of the revolution that brought Fidel Castro and his Communist government to power, the SSRC marks a major milestone in its work to restore the writer Ernest Hemingway's Cuba papers. Beginning this month, scholars will have electronic access to the more than 3,000 papers left behind at Hemingway's Cuban estate.
August 27th 2008
The Perfectly Outrageous Storm
Three years since Katrina, SSRC.org talks to award winning sociologist Shirley Laska about her continuing efforts to aid the rebuilding of the housing infrastructure in New Orleans -- as well as her evacuation plans in case Gustav strikes. We also feature an audio slideshow on the housing recovery, with another sociologist, Rachel Luft, and activist Robert "Kool Black" Horton.
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Programs and Projects

Cuba Program
Facilitating information flows between Cuban scholars and their counterparts abroad
Hemingway Document Preservation Project
Facilitating efforts to restore Ernest Hemingway's Cuba papers for scholars and the general public
Initiative on Cuban Libraries and Archives
Assisting Cuban libraries and archives to prepare for and respond to disaster
Learning from Katrina
Studying the long-term social and psychological impacts of Hurricane Katrina
Privatization of Risk Project
Improving the analysis of problems of risk, markets, and public policy