16 Fast Track research projects on conflict awarded

6 July 2010

NWO awarded 16 out of the 47 proposals submitted for Fast Track research projects into emerging, active, escalating or de-escalating conflicts, under the theme Conflict and Security. In view of the high quality of the proposals submitted, the committee decided to award more proposals than originally foreseen: 3 replacement subsidies and 13 postdoc positions. The projects will start in Autumn 2010.

The following projects have been awarded with a grant:

• A fractured nation: Identity subversion and national identification
• Constructions of justice and legitimacy: defence and prosecution discourses before international criminal courts
• Dutch Discontents: social fear and conflict in Amsterdam's public spaces
• Empowering paramedics in bystander conflict
• Ethnic socialisation and the onset of radicalisation
• Fighting at the fault lines of society
• Human Rights Promotion and Peacemaking
• Humiliation in Conflictual Intergroup Contexts: Causes, Experiences and Consequences
• Moving from being to becoming: The emergence and de-escalation of conflict between ethnic minority groups
• Political paranoia in times of economic uncertainty
• Spacing aid? anticipating violence: humanitarian decision making and its effects in South Sudan
• The Dutch Paradox of Tolerance: Post-Christian Cultural Polarization and PVV-Voting
• The Social Consequences of Industrial Conflict: How strikes affect relations on the work floor
• The Transformation of Ethnic Conflict: From Indigenous Guerrilla Movements to Political Parties
• Why the Dutch don't talk rights: universal human rights as a framework for the resolution of societal conflicts in the Netherlands
• Youth violence and livelihoods on the forest edge: the Liberian Gola Forest and its environs as a security risk to Liberia and Sierra Leone

Find more information about the Conflict and Security theme on the programme website.