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  • A Cognitive View of Policing: Leveraging Behavioral Science to Improve Officer Training

    About the Lecture What if the key to police reform isn't changing policies or removing "bad actors," but understanding how good officers make decisions under pressure? Professor Dube argues that prevailing approaches to police reform overlook a fundamental reality: officers must make decisions under intense stress and time pressure—cognitive conditions that lead even well-intentioned officers to rely on mental shortcuts and default assumptions. Drawing on insights from behavioral economics, Professor Dube designed a new training approach that addresses these cognitive realities. Through a sustained partnership with the Chicago Police Department, she tested whether changing how officers think could transform how …

  • September 2025 African University Seminar Series, South Africa (AUSS-SA)

    The African University Seminar Series, South Africa (AUSS-SA), was hosted from September 18 to 19, 2025, at the University of the Witwatersrand, in partnership with the University of Johannesburg. Under the theme “South Africa at the Crossroads: Reflections on Inequality, Peacebuilding, Security, and Development,” conveners invited current and former APN and Next Gen fellows based in South Africa to showcase their research and collaborate.

  • Event Report: ASAA 2025 — Developing African Frameworks for Navigating Peace Vulnerabilities in an Emerging Post-COVID World Order

    The African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics (APDD) sponsored a panel at the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) 2025 Conference, held on September 25, 2025, at the University of Cape Verde. Under the theme “Developing African Frameworks for Navigating Peace Vulnerabilities in an Emerging Post-COVID World Order,” the panel brought together fellows to examine how African actors are re-imagining resilience and peacebuilding in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Titilope F. Ajayi (Institute for Security Studies / Next Gen 2017 & 2019, APN IRF 2018) who moderated the session welcomed participants and introduced the APN and Next Gen’s mission …

  • Creating Moves to Opportunity: Mixed Methods Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice

    About The Lecture Low-income families often live in neighborhoods with fewer opportunities to get ahead, even when they have housing vouchers that would allow them to move to neighborhoods with more potential for upward mobility. In this SSRC lecture, Johns Hopkins sociologist Stefanie DeLuca will explore why through two randomized interventions. In these experiments, housing voucher recipients were given varying levels of information, financial support, and customized search assistance to move to higher-opportunity neighborhoods. The treatment increased the share of those moving to high-upward-mobility areas from 15% to 53%. Qualitative interviews with participants in the program showed that the intervention …

  • African University Seminar Series Nigeria (AUSS-NG) Event Summary

    The African University Seminar Series Nigeria (AUSS-NG) held its inaugural seminar at the University of Abuja in Abuja, Nigeria, from September 27 to 28, 2025. Funded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation (Next Gen) Social Sciences in Africa Program and hosted by the Department of History & Diplomatic Studies, University of Abuja, the seminar assembled 26 APN and Next Gen fellows and alumni for a one-and-a-half-day convening on contemplating and “Reimagining Peace in Nigeria: Resilience, Reconciliation, Social Justice and Everyday Politics.” An initiative by the APN and Next Gen Program to fund …

  • 2025 International Peace Researchers Association (IPRA) Biennial Conference

    The African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics (APPD) program’s sponsored panel, “Negotiating Peace and Social Justice Through Non-Violent Pathways: Understanding African Values and Practices,” at the 2025 Biennial International Peace Researchers Association (IPRA) conference, featured alumni of the APPD (formerly the APN and Next Gen). During the plenary panel on Friday, November 7, panelists highlighted diverse traditional Indigenous spiritual, relational, and cultural knowledge from across the continent, emphasizing their importance in peacebuilding. Dr. Thembani Dube (APN IRF 2024), a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Stellenbosch, presented the paper, “‘Revisiting Gukurahundi’: Ethnic marginalization, state-led reconciliation, and …

  • 2025 African Studies Association: “Decolonizing the Politics of Knowledge Production in African Peacebuilding”

    On November 20, 2025, the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC’s) African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics (APDD) Program hosted a panel at the 68th annual meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), held from November 20-22, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. The ASA conference, themed “Crossing Boundaries and Recovering Intellectual Traditions,” invited participants to reflect on the politics of knowledge and structural inequalities in African studies. Entitled “Decolonizing the Politics of Knowledge Production in African Peacebuilding: Concepts, Theories, and Practices,” the Program-sponsored panel questioned dominant structures of power, historicized them, and presented avenues for resurgent African agency as a pathway towards sustainable …

  • On Earning Trust:
    The Case for the Social Sciences

    Date: December 12, 2025 Location: University of Southern California On Friday, December 12, 2025, the Social Science Research Council will convene institutional leaders from the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences, together with leaders of philanthropic organizations and other research partners, for a conference titled “On Earning Trust: The Case for the Social Sciences.” Universities are under immense pressure to demonstrate their value (and their values) to constituencies including governments, students, parents, and civil society. Recent changes in federal funding are symptomatic of, and increase, this pressure. In this context, this conference will explore how social science can …

  • 2025 College and University Fund Conference:
    The Case for the Social Sciences

    Event Details Event Date: December 12, 2025 Location: University of Southern California On Friday, December 12, 2025, the Social Science Research Council will convene institutional leaders from the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences, together with leaders of philanthropic organizations and other research partners, to discuss “The Case for the Social Sciences.” Universities are under immense pressure to demonstrate their value (and their values) to constituencies including governments, students, parents, and civil society. Recent changes in federal funding are symptomatic of, and increase, this pressure. In this context, this meeting will focus on the following questions: How do …

  • 2025 College and University Fund Conference – On Earning Trust: The Case for the Social Sciences

    On Earning Trust: The Case for the Social Sciences December 12, 2025 Universities are under immense pressure to demonstrate their value (and their values) to constituencies including governments, students, parents, and civil society. Recent changes in federal funding are symptomatic of, and increase, this pressure. In this context, this conference will explore how social science can illuminate the challenge of earning and sustaining trust—in universities, research, leadership, and institutions. Across disciplines and continents, the event will examine how trust is built, eroded, and restored through credible action, transparency, and shared moral purpose. RSVP to Attend .title-banner .attribution {opacity: .9} #primary …

  • 2025 College and University Fund Conference – On Earning Trust: The Case for the Social Sciences

    On Earning Trust: The Case for the Social Sciences December 12, 2025 Universities are under immense pressure to demonstrate their value (and their values) to constituencies including governments, students, parents, and civil society. Recent changes in federal funding are symptomatic of, and increase, this pressure. In this context, this conference will explore how social science can illuminate the challenge of earning and sustaining trust—in universities, research, leadership, and institutions. Across disciplines and continents, the event will examine how trust is built, eroded, and restored through credible action, transparency, and shared moral purpose. RSVP to Attend .title-banner .attribution {opacity: .9} #primary …

  • On Earning Trust:
    The Case for the Social Sciences

    Event Details Event Date: December 12, 2025 Location: University of Southern California On Friday, December 12, 2025, the Social Science Research Council will convene institutional leaders from the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences, together with leaders of philanthropic organizations and other research partners, for a conference titled “On Earning Trust: The Case for the Social Sciences.” Universities are under immense pressure to demonstrate their value (and their values) to constituencies including governments, students, parents, and civil society. Recent changes in federal funding are symptomatic of, and increase, this pressure. In this context, this conference will explore how …