Switzerland - The Graduate Institute, Geneva

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
Address
Social Science Research Council, 810 Seventh
Ave, New York City, New York, 10019 USA
Phone 212 377-2700
Fax 212 377-2727
Web www.ssrc.org
E-Mail denby@ssrc.org (Assistant to the President)
Category Research
MISSION STATEMENT
The Social Science Research Council is an independent, not-for-profit research organization founded in 1923. Based in New York City,
it mobilizes researchers, policy makers, professionals, activists, and other experts from the private and public sectors to develop
innovative approaches to issues of critical social importance.
The Social Science Research Council leads innovation, builds interdisciplinary and international networks, and focuses research on
important public issues. Independent and not-for-profit, the SSRC is guided by the belief that justice, prosperity, and democracy all
require better understanding of complex social, cultural, economic, and political processes. We work with practitioners, policymakers,
and academic researchers in all the social sciences, related professions, and the humanities and natural sciences. With partners
around the world, we mobilize existing knowledge for new problems, link research to practice and policy, strengthen individual and
Founding year 1923.
BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES
• Religion and International Affairs: The SSRC Project on Religion and International Affairs seeks to expand on and
deepen the renewed interest for religion. Conceived as part of a larger effort to bring attention to religion more centrally
into social science research and analysis, and to contribute to a better understanding of world religion in public policy and
public discourse, the project aims to extend our understanding of religion as a critical but often neglected factor in policy
issues throughout the world.
Funded by the Luce Foundation, this SSRC project will complement and advance a recently established Luce initiative supporting the
integration of religion into the teaching and research of schools of international affairs, and seeking to advance the practical
knowledge of leaders in journalism and international relations. A central component of the project will be the establishment of an
SSRC Working Group on Religion, Secularism, and International Affairs, designed to build better connections between scholars from
different disciplines and to generate new intellectual momentum for interdisciplinary work. Better attention to religion in international
affairs will immediately illuminate such core concerns as human rights, humanitarian interventions, justice and reconciliation,
reparations, the role of "civil society," not least in regard to faith-based NGOs, and conflict, including international war, civil war, war
and terrorism.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
None so far for the SSRC Project on Religion and International Affairs but for various other themes:
http://www.ssrc.org/publications/
REMARKS
Jonathan Van Antwerpen: Program Officer/Research Fellow, Religion and International Affairs, vanantwerpen@ssrc.org.
Jillian Moo-Young: Editorial/Program Assistant, Religion and International Affairs, mooyoung@ssrc.org.
New entry: March 2007.