Unsolicited Grants

The board of directors recently approved the following grants. Additional grants will be listed in the December issue.

Bosnia-Specific Awards

Akhavan, Payam, The Hague, Netherlands. Assess the impact of the International Criminal Tribunal on the Yugoslav peace process. Explore the tribunal's potential role in both advancing inter-ethnic reconciliation and democratization and deterring similar conflicts and atrocities in the Balkan region and elsewhere. $30,000.

Atlantic Council of the United States, Washington, D.C. Conduct a multi-disciplinary assessment of security requirements in Bosnia-Herzegovina after the NATO implementation force's (IFOR) mandate lapses at the end of 1996. A team of 15 specialists with foreign policy, military, economic, diplomatic, and area studies expertise will examine the conditions of individual, commercial, and military security on the ground in the Balkan region. Jack M. Seymour, Jr. $45,000.

Coalition for International Justice, Washington, D.C. Hold a symposium to review and evaluate the work of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. John W. Heffernan. $29,570.

Fourth Freedom Forum, Inc., Goshen, Ind. Assess the impact of sanctions on humanitarian conditions in Haiti, South Africa, Iraq, and the former Yugoslavia, with an emphasis on developing more effective ways of imposing sanctions targeted against political elites while protecting vulnerable populations. David Cortright. $37,000.

International Human Rights Law Group, Washington, D.C. Support the preparation of resource and training materials and the implementation of a training program in Bosnia that will provide information about new mechanisms and procedures for protecting human rights established under the Dayton Peace Accord. Mark Bromley. $50,000.

King's College, London, Ontario, Canada. Classify, explain, and evaluate a range of methods available to states for managing ethnic and national conflict. John McGarry. $31,000.

Laval University, Quebec, Canada. Assess the impact of the war in the former Yugoslavia on international organizations, such as the United Nations, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO, and the European Union, that intervened to quell the fighting and provide safety for humanitarian relief operations. Reneo Lukic. $7,750.

Search for Common Ground, Washington, D.C. Produce and broadcast a series of interactive radio programs to promote peace and reconciliation in Bosnia. Train journalists in strategies and techniques for building consensus across ethnic lines, encourage citizens' participation in public policy issues, and expose Bosnians to constructive approaches to the transition from war to peace. Sheldon Himelfarb. $36,000.

United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), Arlington, Va. Support a conference on conflict resolution and post-settlement peacebuilding at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, which will explore practical ways in which the field of conflict resolution and mechanisms for reconciliation can be institutionalized in that country. Dick Van Gorp. $37,700.

Other Awards

American University in Cairo, Egypt. Study cases of a recently developed pattern of greater cooperation between NGOs and U.S. government agencies in sharing information in order to enhance the quality of early warning and preventive diplomacy in emerging crisis spots. William DeMars. $23,900.

Center for Policy Studies-PIR Center, Moscow, Russia. Two nongovernmental institutes in Russia and Belarus will conduct research collaboratively on legal and illegal conventional arms transfers from the states of the former Soviet Union. Vyacheslav Paznyak and Konstantin Makienko. $40,000.

Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti. Examine Islamic movements in Algeria and Jordan in the context of state-civil society interaction and draw lessons for managing conflicts between the state and Islamic groups through peaceful means. Mansoor Moaddel. $37,000.

Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia. Research the sources, dimensions, and implications of the illegal trafficking of radioactive and other nuclear materials, particularly in Russia and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. Rensselaer W. Lee. $39,000.

Hashomer Hatzair Israel, Tel Aviv. Engage 100 Israeli and Palestinian youth from Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip in a series of monthly educational and cultural activities, culminating in an eight-day Peace Camp that will include seminars, lectures, and discussion groups. Nir Bahat. $40,000.

Institute for Democracy in South Africa, Stellenbosch, Western Cape. Conduct a nationwide survey on the attitudes of South African citizens towards nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa, with a specific focus on issues such as cultural diversity, racism, stereotyping, ethnicity, and gender discrimination. Robert Mattes. $45,000.

International Peace Academy, New York. Evaluate and draw lessons from several UN peace operations in order to make recommendations for future UN interventions. Michael W. Doyle. $35,000.

International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway. Research the relationship between the environment and conflict, particularly how resource scarcity and environmental disruption affect the propensity toward violence. Nils Petter Gleditsch. $38,000.

Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome. Identify and explore notions, mechanisms, and policies of preventive diplomacy and crisis prevention in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Roberto Aliboni. $40,000.

New School for Social Research, World Policy Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y. Assess the effects of commissions investigating past human rights abuses in Chile, Argentina, South Africa, and Uganda on achieving justice and advancing conflict resolution. Priscilla B. Hayner. $42,900.

New School for Social Research, World Policy Institute, New York. Conduct research for a book of analytical political and cultural reportage about the genesis and aftermath of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and the conflict between Hutus and Tutsis in Burundi. Philip Gourevitch. $43,018.

RAND, Santa Monica, Calif. Explore how an integrated American strategy might be formulated to re-engage the Russian Federation as a global security partner. Investigate the principal challenges to cooperation between the United States and Russia on common security interests and ways to prevent the re-emergence of the pervasive tensions of the Cold War era. Benjamin S. Lambeth. $38,000. © 1996 United States Institute of Peace