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 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.
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 Climate Agreements
The Harvard Project on 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.
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 Harvard Kennedy School 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.
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.
Agricultural Innovation in Africa
The� Agricultural Innovation in Africa project (AIA) contributes to agricultural science and technology policy improvement through the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) of Africa as part of the larger agenda to promote regional economic integration.
The US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism
The US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism addresses the challenge set by Presidents Medvedev and Obama for our two nations to strengthen "their cooperation to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and stop acts of nuclear terrorism." [July 2009]�Building on existing efforts to understand and prevent nuclear terrorism, this initiative seeks a joint US-Russian assessment of the threat of nuclear terrorism in order to develop concepts, strategy, and actions to prevent a successful nuclear attack by terrorists.�Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is teamed with US and Russian institutions including the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the USA-Canada Institute, the Institute of World Economy & International Relations and the PIR Center for Policy Studies.
The Middle East Initiative is engaged in providing effective and innovative professional development and training programs; promoting research related to the region; hosting film series, speaker series and other events related to the Middle East region. We cordially invite you to participate through one of these programs with the hope that you will find our work a useful resource for deeper engagement with the peoples and cultures of the Middle East.
The Future of Diplomacy Project
Diplomacy is a vital resource for the United States and other countries in our increasingly globalized world. At a time when most of the major challenges facing the international community cannot be resolved by military force, nations will need to rely more on their ability to negotiate, communicate and resolve differences through diplomacy. There are, in fact, few American universities that have focused on the study and practice of diplomacy. Our mission should be to make the Kennedy School the premier place for the study of diplomacy in the United States.
The India & South Asia Program fosters awareness and engagement with the South Asian region. Through speaker events, institutional partnerships, professional development programs, and scholarly research, the India & South Asia Program promotes an understanding of the region at a time when its geopolitical dynamics are of critical importance to the world.
Explorations in Cyber International Relations
ECIR is a collaborative interdisciplinary research program between researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University that seeks to create a field of cyber international relations for the� 21st century. The program is designed to generate theoretical, policy and strategy frameworks to explore alternative cyber developments, assess challenges and threats,� and identify� possibilities and opportunities in cyberspace for security and well-being.
