http://www.ssrc.org/ SSRC.org 2018-11-12T16:13:00-05:00 SSRC 2018-11-12T16:13:00-05:00

Dr. Tatiana Carayannis has been named Director of Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum. Carayannis has led CPPF’s work on Africa and China for the last decade, as well as on a variety of thematic and regional initiatives. She is also Director of the Understanding Violent Conflict program.

SSRC 2018-11-05T16:58:00-05:00 https://www.ssrc.org/events/view/elections-in-the-age-of-trump/

EVENT: Elections in the Age of Trump | On the eve of the midterm elections, FiveThirtyEight Senior Political Writer Clare Malone leads a conversation with John Sides, professor of political science at George Washington University and coauthor of the new book, Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America.

SSRC 2018-10-29T15:45:00-05:00 https://www.ssrc.org/programs/child-component/scholarly-borderlands/culture-and-regulatory-capture/request-for-proposals-cultural-influences-in-regulatory-capture/

The Scholarly Borderlands Initiative, in collaboration with the Tobin Project, seeks graduate student grant proposals that focus on how cultural factors may contribute to “regulatory capture” in the United States.

SSRC 2018-10-11T14:14:00-05:00

The Anxieties of Democracy program has initiated a new partnership with Cambridge University Press, which will publish several new titles under the banner of the “SSRC Anxieties of Democracy Series.”

SSRC 2018-10-10T13:18:00-05:00 http://elink.clickdimensions.com/m/1/57057317/02-b18274-c48431dc287e4ca68c6e0c9a5d53ae6f/1/264/80600470-0a37-4f8f-b346-7c140e08e9f7

The Social Science Research Council’s InterAsia Program Selects 2018 Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellows

SSRC 2018-09-19T13:13:00-05:00 https://www.ssrc.org/to-secure-knowledge

NEW REPORT | “To Secure Knowledge: Social Science Partnerships for the Common Good”

SSRC 2018-09-12T13:05:00-05:00 https://www.ssrc.org/events/view/myanmar-new-york-9-12-2018/

Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum organized a one-day, closed-door strategic discussion at the SSRC on Myanmar, in collaboration with the UN Department of Political Affairs.

SSRC 2018-08-16T11:51:00-05:00 http://nextgen.ssrc.org/july-2018-kampala-workshop/

The Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program hosted its 13th biannual fellows workshop at Makerere University in Uganda last month where fellows from all corners of the continent convened.

SSRC 2018-08-07T17:54:00-05:00 https://items.ssrc.org/introducing-democratic-erosion/

Democracy Papers | Rob Blair introduces “Democratic Erosion,” a miniseries of four undergraduate essays drawn from a 20+ institution collaborative course on risks to democracy in the US and abroad.

SSRC 2018-08-07T13:02:00-05:00 http://mailings.ssrc.org/m/1/57057317/02-b18219-e511908c4d4e4e1aae7ab968337d7d6f/5/424/ac0dd46b-3db6-49c8-9a5f-8f90f566617f

Mary Byrne McDonnell has been named Senior Vice President for Strategic Learning and Special Initiatives at the Social Science Research Council.

SSRC 2018-08-01T13:04:00-05:00 https://www.ssrc.org/staff/stein-sabrina/

Sabrina Stein presented CPPF’s latest research on prevention at the Civil Society-UN Prevention Platform’s event, “The SDGs and Prevention: Beyond the Obvious,” at Quaker House.

SSRC 2018-07-31T12:54:00-05:00 https://www.ssrc.org/events/view/gender-and-politics-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-new-york/

The Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum organized a one-day, closed-door meeting on gender and politics in Latin America and the Caribbean at the request of the UN Department of Political Affairs.

SSRC 2018-07-26T11:02:00-05:00 https://www.ssrc.org/pages/ssrc-president-meets-with-college-and-university-fund-institutions/

SSRC President Alondra Nelson meets with College and University Fund institutions

SSRC 2018-07-24T11:39:00-05:00 http://bit.ly/meet-atlantic-fellows

Introducing the global cohort of Atlantic Fellows: 267 changemakers who are collectively working toward a fairer, healthier future. The SSRC is proud to be a learning and assessment partner to this important initiative via the Strategic Learning and Evaluation program.

SSRC 2018-07-17T17:18:00-05:00 https://items.ssrc.org/unequal-political-voice-in-the-new-american-gilded-age/

Democracy Papers | Kay Lehman Schlozman, Henry Brady, and Sidney Verba give an authoritative overview of inequalities of political voice in the United States.

SSRC 2018-07-16T13:01:00-05:00 https://www.ssrc.org/publications/view/prevention-the-challenge-of-theory-and-practic/

Tatiana Carayannis and Sabrina Stein authored a chapter on “Prevention: The Challenge of Theory and Practice,” in an edited volume titled Humanitarianism: A Dictionary of Concepts, published by Routledge.

SSRC 2018-07-11T12:28:00-05:00 https://www.ssrc.org/pages/announcing-the-social-media-and-democracy-research-grants/

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS | As part of the Social Data Initiative, we invite researchers to study the role of social media in elections and democracy. Successful applicants will be permitted access to a large, global dataset of news website URLs circulated on Facebook.

SSRC 2018-07-10T07:37:00-05:00 https://www.ssrc.org/pages/social-science-research-council-elects-melissa-nobles-and-jennifer-richeson-to-board-of-directors/

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT | Dean Melissa Nobles of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Professor Jennifer Richeson of Yale University elected to the SSRC Board of Directors.

SSRC 2018-07-03T17:16:00-05:00 https://items.ssrc.org/democracy-in-the-twenty-first-century-toward-new-models-of-democratic-governance/

Democracy Papers | André Bächtiger and Claudia Landwehr explore innovative ways to address citizen dissatisfaction with existing institutions of representative democracies.

SSRC 2018-07-01T11:54:00-05:00 https://www.ssrc.org/publications/view/the-colombian-peace-process-with-the-farc-a-mapping-of-vulnerabilities/

Renata Segura and Sabrina Stein publish policy paper, titled “The Colombian Peace Process with the FARC: A Mapping of Vulnerabilities,” examining what are the current and biggest vulnerabilities of the peace agreement signed by the Colombian government and the guerrilla movement known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in November of 2016.