Ars Publica, Santa Fe. Train teenagers from Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia to conduct conflict resolution peer training and to develop a network of peer peace educators to promote peace among youth in these three countries. Branka Peuraca. $40,000.
Community Of St. Egidio USA, New York. Enable St. Egidio to organize a series of Track II confidence-building activities (meetings, workshops, and simulation sessions) to promote dialogue and conflict management in Kosovo. Roberto Motozzo della Rocca. $36,600.
Council On Public Policy Education, Washington, D.C. Have university professors active in unofficial diplomacy between the government of Tajikistan and insurgents create university-level courses aimed at institutionalizing an ethos of conflict resolution. Harold H. Saunders, Gennady Chufrin, Randa Slim. $32,000.
Flacso-Argentina, Buenos Aires. Examine the participation of Argentine, Brazilian, and Uruguayan armed forces in international peacekeeping operations. Monica Hirst. $39,000.
IDR Associates, Washington, D.C. Initiate community-based projects involving youth leaders from the Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland as a means to strengthen their dispute resolution skills and promote peace between the communities. Alissa J. Stern and Hrach Gregorian. $37,000.
Institute For Defense And Disarmament Studies, Cambridge, Mass. Explore the political and military issues pertaining to an independent United Nations armed force for use in peacekeeping, peacemaking, and limited peace enforcement. John G. Heidenrich. $35,000.
Miller, Laura L., Cambridge, Mass. Assess the impact of race, gender, training, military occupation, and prior peacekeeping experience on U.S. soldiersŐ efforts to fulfill peacekeeping missions. $36,000.
Ohio State University Research Foundation, Columbus. Analyze 300 military interventions by democracies since 1945 that aimed to promote democracy abroad; assess the conditions for intervention, purposes of past interventions, and the degree to which these interventions were responsible for subsequent political reform. Margaret G. Hermann. $21,947.
University Of Kentucky, Lexington. Investigate the reasons why states from every major world region participate in multilateral peacekeeping, focusing especially on the domestic factors that lead states to contribute, or not contribute, to such operations. Karen A. Mingst. $28,559.
Columbia University, New York. Examine the links between violent conflict and such economic and environmental factors as population growth, food security, and global climate change. Robert Jervis and David Downie. $38,000.
Pastor, Manuel, Jr. and Carol Wise, Los Angeles, Calif. Examine the economic and political conflicts that have accompanied recent trade liberalization programs in Latin America, focusing particular attention on Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. $35,000.
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. Assess the influence of physical environment on democracy and political violence. Manus I. Midlarsky. $30,000.
University Of California At San Diego, La Jolla. Support an international working group of scholars and policy practitioners to examine the effect of domestic political constraints on food production, water reallocation, and agricultural and industrial investment in the Middle East and North Africa. Susan L. Shirk and Alan Richards. $40,000.
University Of Wisconsin At Milwaukee. Investigate the nature and determinants of public attitudes in Israel and the Arab world toward international conflict, particularly the Arab- Israeli conflict. Mark A. Tessler. $29,702.
California State University, Sacramento. A collaborative project with the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies to train a multi-ethnic Nigerian team in mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution techniques. Ernest Uwazie. $40,000.
CDR Associates, Boulder, Colo. Provide a practical framework for examining how culture has both subtle and obvious effects on negotiation and conflict resolution. Christopher W. Moore. $35,000.
Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K. Support further development and dissemination of a wholly electronic scholarly journal and resource guide on the provision of humanitarian assistance. J. Whitman. $15,000.
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace, Washington, D.C. Assess and monitor the use of incentive packages to dissuade states from developing nuclear weapons and to recommend ways in which political and economic incentives may be applied to current proliferation problems. Virginia I. Foran. $25,000.
Center For Strategic And International Studies, Washington, D.C. Organize a series of sequential seminars in community building and conflict resolution training that will empower the various religious communities of Bosnia to pursue a variety of peacebuilding activities during post-war reconstruction. David A. Steele. $80,000.
Columbia University, New York. Analyze the relationship between democratization and war within and between states. Edward D. Mansfield. $25,000.
Duke University, Durham, N.C. A conference organized in collaboration with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda to identify the most appropriate and efficacious roles for national and international criminal justice systems in responding to mass crimes in violent conflicts. Madeline Morris. $26,806.
Fruhling, Hugo, Washington, D.C. Recognizing that a core issue in transitional justice and reconciliation in Latin America is the role of the police, examine the Chilean model of policing, compare it with those in Argentina and Peru, and assess its impact on the process of democratic consolidation. $30,000.
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