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Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence

Virtual Lecture | April 24, 3:00 PM Eastern, via Zoom
What if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong? In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen, and is there anything we can do about it? Almost two decades later, the answers aren’t what he expected. This seminar describes how and why everyone’s conventional wisdom about gun violence is at best incomplete, how behavioral economics gives us a better way to understand the problem, and how a sustained partnership between the University of Chicago Crime Lab and the city of Chicago have helped identify and scale new solutions.

SSRC, WANEP, and CORN-WA Convene High-Level Policy Dialogue, “Emerging Challenges and the Future of ECOWAS”

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC)’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) program co-hosted a high-level policy dialogue on “Understanding the Geopolitical and Strategic Changes in West Africa: Emerging Challenges and the Future of ECOWAS”, in partnership with the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) and Conflict Relief Network (CORN) West Africa. The high-level policy dialogue took place in Accra, Ghana on April 15 and 16, 2025. It convened representatives from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), civil society organizations (CSOs), analysts, researchers, and policy practitioners to generate and mobilize collective …

PADRA Early Careers Workshop Event Summary

Nairobi, Kenya On Friday, March 28, 2025, the Peace and Development Research Association (PADRA) held an early and mid-career authors workshop in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and with support from the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) Program of the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC). Hosted at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, the workshop’s aim was to provide PADRA members with guidance on the processes of  conceptualizing, crafting, and publishing their academic research, as well as effective ways to translate such research …