The Sié Center is at the forefront of teaching and research on a range of twenty-first century issues, with projects exploring trends in conflict and violence, the changing character of violence and its alternatives, and the roles of non-state actors in shaping global security.
This project systematically catalogs lessons learned from the United Nations Peace and Development Advisors. These officials typically work in conflict-affected countries right at the intersection between conflict dynamics and development challenges.
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This project attempts to detect patterns in how tactical choices lead to success or failure of nonviolent and violent political movements. The project produces annual data on insurgent group behavior and events data on insurgent tactical selection.
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This project aims to quantify the impacts of civil conflict on fish catch, the feedbacks between aquatic population dynamics, local markets, and food security, and model developing country fisheries as coupled natural human systems.
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This project addresses the roles that international markets, conflict, and government policy play in creating food insecurity, as well as roles for the international community and development organizations in combating it.
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The Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE) data project is a multi-institutional effort to collect and code data on state action toward terrorist organizations or their constituencies in select countries.
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The MEC data project uses open source news reports to identify major episodes of mass nonviolent, violent, and "mixed" contention from 2007-present so that researchers can better understand the origins and outcomes of contentious behavior.
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This project examines how network theory can explain the way various associations of state and non-state actors govern contemporary security issues. The project focuses on a wide range of security issues from U.S. basing to anti-piracy to non-proliferation.
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The Private Security Monitor is a research project that promotes access to information concerning the world-wide use and regulation of private military and security services.
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This project is a six-country analysis of how international development partners interact with religious communities and actors in fragile states in efforts to build social cohesion. The project's case studies are Kenya, Guatemala, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria and Sri Lanka.
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The Social Conflict in Africa Database (SCAD) includes protests, riots, strikes, inter-communal conflict, government violence against civilians, and other forms of social conflict not systematically tracked in other conflict datasets.
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This project is a multi-institutional effort to understand how terrorist networks emerge, and with whom terrorist groups ally. Data on terrorist group alliance patterns are being collected and analyzed and will ultimately yield a publicly available data set.
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