CURRENT PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS
The International Security Program (ISP) addresses the most pressing threats to U.S. national interests and international security. The program supports young scholars with its fellowship program and sponsors and edits the quarterly journal International Security, a leading peer-reviewed journal of security affairs that provides sophisticated analyses of contemporary security issues and discusses their conceptual and historical foundations. ISP also created and continues to publish a book series, the Belfer Center Studies in International Security, to provide an outlet for policy-oriented research and analysis in the field of international security.
Science, Technology, and Public Policy
The Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (STPP) applies methods drawn from technology assessment, political science, economics, management, and law to study problems where science, technology, and policy intersect. Our goal is to develop and promote policies that expand the contribution of science and technology to human welfare.
Environment and Natural Resources
The Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) is the center of the Harvard Kennedy School's research and outreach on public policy that affects global environmental quality and natural resource management
The Program on Intrastate Conflict analyzes the causes of ethnic, religious, and other intercommunal conflict, and seeks to identify practical ways to prevent and limit such conflict. The program's work includes development of an Index of African Governance.
The Dubai Initiative has two primary objectives: to assist the Dubai School of Government in establishing an internationally-recognized academic research center for the Middle East in public policy and administration by bringing the research, academic and training resources of the Belfer Center and the Kennedy School of Government to students, practitioners and scholars in the region; and to enable the scholars and students of the Kennedy School to learn and to improve their understanding of the emerging political, social and economic issues in the Middle East.
The Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) conducts and disseminates policy-relevant research on nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. The project supports an international group of pre- and post-doctoral fellows and other experts working on these issues and helps to advance their research work through seminars, workshops, and conferences.
The Preventive Defense Project (PDP) is a Harvard-Stanford research collaboration, co-directed by Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry, that focuses on key problems of national and international security, with the aim of preventing possible threats from becoming actual threats.
Energy Technology Innovation Policy
The Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP) research group seeks to determine and promote the adoption of effective strategies for developing and deploying cleaner and more efficient energy technologies, primarily in three of the biggest energy-consuming nations in the world: China, India, and the United States.
Science, Technology, and Globalization
The aim of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project (STG) is to undertake research, conduct training, provide policy advice, and disseminate information on interactions between technological innovation and globalization, with particular emphasis on implications for developing countries.
Broadmoor Project: New Orleans
The Broadmoor Project: New Orleans Recovery is an effort initiated in 2006 to assist residents of New Orleans' hard-hit Broadmoor neighborhood in designing and implementing a strategy for post-Katrina neighborhood recovery. Launched and hosted by the Belfer Center, the project enables Kennedy School students to put their governance skills into action to help bring back one of America's great cities. The collaboration also creates the opportunity for local New Orleans leaders to build their leadership skills through intensive leadership courses at the Kennedy School.
Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements is an effort to help identify key design elements of a future international agreement on climate change, drawing upon the ideas of leading thinkers from academia, private industry, government, and advocacy organizations. The project aims to help develop a "scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic" plan to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.
Religion in International Affairs
The Initiative on Religion in International Affairs was launched in 2007 to explore the role of religion in global affairs and to deepen understanding of religion as it affects the behavior of states and other political actors and the development of foreign policy. Through courses, seminars, executive training sessions, and research projects, the initiative aims to inform policymakers, scholars, and students regarding the importance of religion in the study and practice of international affairs and foreign policy.
