2024 Grant Recipients
Translating Conflict: Literary Diplomacy in the Westward Movement of Arabic Literature (Arabic)
Dima Ayoub
Decolonizing Conservation: from marine dispossession to self-determination in Madagascar (Environmental Studies)
Merril Baker-Medard, Charlotte Nagnisaha, and Tolaira Vololonavalona Ravelo
Examining the Mixed Ideological Motivations of Mass Shooters and School Shooters (Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism)
Erica Barbarossa and Isabela Bernardo
In recent years, an increase in the trend of adolescents attempting to build 3D printed weapons for use in violent attacks has been observed, creating a looming public safety issue. Simultaneously, reported and observed increases in the radicalization of minors into newly-developed extremist and hate-based communities have also been identified. In some cases, these two trends have existed in tandem with one another, combining to provide adolescents with a violent ideological worldview and the means of creating a weapon to be used in support of that worldview. This report addresses the lack of regulation associated with the acquisition of 3D printing devices and the creation of 3D-printed weapons, and provides recommendations for lowering the public safety risk of violent attacks with 3D-printed firearms.
Mixed Ideological Motivations of Mass Shooters and School Shooters Report
Shifting the Culture in the Rehearsal Room (Theater)
Michole Biancosino
This project explores new models of working that value multiple voices in all decision-making, be it financial, administrative, production, or artistic. By allowing the conflicts in the room - creative or otherwise - to be acknowledged, discussed, and worked through, there can emerge new processes that allow for full participation. The goal is to discover and record the language and codes of conduct in which conflict is considered a natural occurring part of some processes, while giving all the artists in the room agency to work through said conflicts together. By setting up a theatre “lab,” the project investigates different approaches that aim to subvert the hierarchies that are the givens in the field.
Shifting the Culture in the Rehearsal Room CT Report
Avoiding Conflict through Verification: Assessing and Updating Proposed Biological Weapons Convention Verification Measures” (Center for Nonproliferation Studies)
Allison Berke
The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) is an agreement not to use biological and toxin weapons in conflict, and also not to develop or stockpile them. The BWC contains no protocol for inspection, and no systematic verification measures aside from voluntary annual declarations of activities. There have also been several accusations of non-compliance with the BWC. While many of these concerns and accusations may be unfounded, the absence of verification measures removes a key tool for deescalating conflict. This project aimed to assess the current state of verification technology, in relation to the 21 verification measures evaluated by the VEREX working group between 1995 and 2001, and produced a report describing the difference in the acceptability and feasibility of these verification measures in light of both US concerns over information privacy and technological advances.
Avoiding Conflict through Verification CT Report
Moms for Liberty: Normalizing Cultural Conflict (Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism)
Amy Cooter and Robin O’Luanaigh
Building Coalitions to Subvert Democracy: Coercion, Conviction, and Cooptation in Turkey (Political Science)
Sebnem Gumuscu
Building Consensus Around Trigger Warnings (Psychology)
Matthew Kimble
Promoting Intercultural Citizenship and Social-Emotional Learning in an English Classroom for North-Korean Refugee-Background Students (TESOL/TFL)
Heekyeong Lee
Lost in Translation? Discussing Gender in Multilateral Disarmament (Center for Nonproliferation Studies)
Nomsa Ndongwe and Sophia Poteet
Conflict Transformation for International Educators (International Education Management)
Katherine Punteney