Understanding Violent Conflict
The Understanding Violent Conflict program is a series of research collaborations with institutions in Africa and the Middle East, Europe, and Asia intended to expand scholarship on violent conflict around the world.
Program
Social Data Initiative
The Social Data Initiative explores social media’s impact on society by supporting cutting-edge research and engaging with questions of research ethics and privacy in an era where the internet shapes business, journalism, and global politics.
Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network
The Sloan Scholars Mentoring Network (SSMN) is a multi-pronged program serving the Sloan Scholar community through a strategic mix of professional development, mentoring, networking and leadership training opportunities.
Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa
The Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program supports scholars attending higher education institutions in the global South to produce the next generation of researchers, faculty, technocrats, and leaders.
Media & Democracy
The Media & Democracy program explores the relationship between media, technology, and politics. Through research workshops, public events, and publications, Media & Democracy incubates research and situates modern political change in historical and cultural contexts.
Drugs, Security and Democracy Program
The Drugs, Security and Democracy program supports research to create a more systematized knowledge base on drugs in Latin America and the Caribbean and develop alternatives to modern drug policies in the region.
Digital Culture
The Digital Culture program examines the role of technology in social science research, in the distribution of information, and in the shaping of cultural and political systems to serve the SSRC’s core aims of deepening and democratizing knowledge.
Cuba Program
The Cuba Program is designed to extend scholarly relations between Cuba and the United States by organizing travel by researchers, enabling the translation and publication of Cuban scholarly works, and maintaining Cuban libraries, archives, and museums.
Anxieties of Democracy
The Anxieties of Democracy program promotes research and dialogue to determine if modern democratic institutions can capably address large problems in the public interest, such as climate change and political polarization.
African Peacebuilding Network
The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) supports independent African research on conflict-affected countries and neighboring regions of the continent, as well as the integration of African knowledge into global policy communities.