Past Grant 

Awards

State-Building, Long-Term Development, and Rural Stability in Peru

Where Does Power Lie? Women’s De Jure and De Facto Political Power and Female Empowerment in Eastern Nigeria

Industrial Policy, Firm Ownerships, and Ethnic Inequality in Malaysia

The Social and Economic Consequences of Peasant Rebellions in India

Dynamics of Crime and Public Policy Under Prison-Based Criminal Governance

Interethnic Complementarity and Conflict in British Malaya

Rebel in Society: Social Networks, Wartime Consolidation, and the Emergence of the Islamic State

Setting the Foundations for Apartheid: Market Access and the Rise of Afrikaner Identity

Optimal Redistribution of De Jure and De Facto Political Power: A Mechanism Design Approach, Evidence from Labor Unions

Morality, Violence, and Opportunism: Inside the Nduma Defense of Congo Militia

The Politics of Urban Social Topography in Latin America

Habeas (Non) Corpus: Enforced Disappearance and States' Repertoires of Repression

Party Decay and the Reconfiguration of Electoral Competition under Conflict

Coercion and Democratic Capture in Mexico

Policing the International: Policy Diffusion and the Postcolony

Reducing Violence versus Building Trust: Exploring the Joint Effect of Top-down and Bottom-up Peacebuilding Interventions

State-building and Rural Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary France

Soldier, State: Society: Conscription and Battlefield Effectiveness in the Modern Era

Reconstruction after Revolution: Literacy and Land Reform in Southern Mexico

Neglected Terror: Bajrang Dal and Hindu Nationalism in India

The Geo-referenced 19th Century Insurgencies

Rebel in Society: Social Networks and the Regeneration of the Islamic State

Does Conflict Reduce Investment? Evidence from the Demand for Agricultural Credit in Colombia

Market Access and Ethnic Identity

The Anthropocene from the Edge of a West African River

Insights into the Administration of Non-state Armed Organizations - Evidence from the Largest Militia of Eastern DRC

Covert Violence and Shades of Deniability: Forced Disappearance Across Latin America

Local Leaders' Role in Resolving Disputes: A Study of Farmer-Herder Conflict in Northern Nigeria

Pacifying the Countryside in Spain

Holding their Feet to the Fire: Negotiated Accountability in the Shadow of the International Community

The Political Consequences of Restrictions to Higher Education under Dictatorship

Propaganda, Excuses, and Conflict

Aid, Arms, and Advisors: Limited Intervention in Conflict

Corruption and Law Enforcement in the Mexican Drug Trade

Promoting prosocial behavior among children in the Great Lakes Region

Conflict and Coercion within African Political Parties

"Democracy" without a monopoly of violence?

Ideology, Redistribution, and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Democracies and Dictatorships

Unintended “Others”: Excesses of Confidence Building and Development in Cyprus 

Testing a Theory of Authoritarian Backsliding with a Survey Experiment in Poland

Setting the Foundations for Apartheid: The Politics of Economic Distortion in the Cape of Good Hope

Forced Migration and Social Tensions: The Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

Who joins armed organizations? Moral sentiments, economic incentives, and social norms

Democratic Capture and Competitive Statebuilding in Civil War

Rural Unrest and Land Reform in Portugal

Holding Their Feet to the Fire: Institutions, Elites, and Accountability During and After Conflict

The Terrorism Threat in Iran: Causes, Responses, and Consequences

Disguising Xenophobia through Economic Narratives

Promoting Peaceful Migration – the Role of International Treaties

Aid, Arms, and Advisors: Limited Intervention in Conflict

May It Please the Court: Explaining Variation in Effective Prosecution of Organized Crime

Party Youth Violence in New Democracies: Intra-Party Conflict in West Africa

Unintended consequences of anti-corruption programs

Ideology, Economic Policy and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Democracies and Dictatorships

Restoring Heritage, Developing Peace

Build roads, not arsenals: the effect of foreign infrastructure investment on reducing domestic armed conflicts

Social Networks, Wartime Consolidation, and the Regeneration of the Islamic State

Initial Conditions and Nation Building: Evidence from East Germany

Forced Migration and Social Tensions: The Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

Post-Authoritarian Purges and Regime Institutionalization: A Global Dataset

Grievance and Participation in Violent Democracies

Counterinsurgency and Peacebuilding through Influence Campaigns

Land Tenure and Rural Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary France

The Impact of International Pressure on Institutional Design in Colombia

Restoring Social Bonds in Refugee Survivors of Torture and Severe Violence

Autocratic Nation Building: Public Schooling and Political Control in Mexico’s Indigenous South

Reasoning with Madmen: The Impact of Perceived Irrationality on Preferences for Diplomacy vs Force

Electoral Coercion and Local Democratic Representation in Ghana

Effect of Mobility Restrictions on Firms’ Performance in the West Bank

Political Coalitions and Social Conflict

Violent Entrepreneurship in South Africa: Political Violence, Rent Seeking and Informal Urban Transitions

Civilian Collaboration and Violence in Civil Wars

Armed Electioneering as Effect and Measure of Criminal Governance

The Unraveling of Iraq's Tribal State: Intra-Ethnic Dynamics and the Rise of the Islamic State

Long-Term Effects of Sexual Violence During Conflict: Evidence from the End of WWII

Postconflict Precarity: Trust Building and Community Interventions after War in Colombia

Mapping Political and Military Violence in Algeria, 1954-1962

Limited Legal Status and Human Capital Investments: The Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

Transitional Justice and the Quality of Political Representation: Testing the Empirical Implications of a Formal Model

Grievance and Governance in Civil War

Explaining Armed Actor Co-optation by Weak States: The Mixed Success of Nationalist China

Fostering Political Tolerance in Times of Crisis: Attitudes toward Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Land Reform and Civil Conflict: Theory and Evidence from Peru

Long-Term Effects of Human Rights Violations during the Pinochet Dictatorship

Restoring Social Bonds in Survivors of Torture and Severe Violence: A Study Exploring the Effects of Group-Based Treatment on the Social Resources of Syrian Refugees

Evaluating the Effects of Anti-Electoral Violence Policies on Democratic Consolidation in Ghana

National Resource Shocks, Social Conflicts, and Preferences for Redistribution—Evidence from Peru

Urban Violence in Young Democracies: Evidence from South Africa

Authoritarian Origins of Vigilante Violence and Quotidian Order in Democratic Indonesia

‘I Felt the Hand of the Government in my Womb’: Black Women, State Violence, and the Transnational Struggle for Life in Brazil and Colombia

Trade Liberalization and Political Violence: Evidence from Colombia

Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Counterinsurgency

Human Capital Accumulation under Threat of Insurgent Violence

Revolutionary Insurgency in Democracies: Theory and Evidence from Southern Asia

Youth as ‘Peace Builders’: An Analysis of the Colombian Peace Education Law

Security Transitions