Research

Research


As a research institution our mission is to produce and disseminate knowledge, contribute to progress and debate among the global scientific community, enrich the study of global challenges, and offer international actors policy-relevant analyses to facilitate informed deliberations on contemporary international problems.

Faculty and researchers at the Graduate Institute work in interdisciplinary teams in our Centres and Programmes, and form disciplinary communities engaged in research and research training in our Academic Departments. They engage with researchers throughout the world in informal and project-centered networks.

Research highlights

 

Professors receive grants for summer projects
10.06.2013 - Assistant Professor of International Economics Lore Vandewalle has been awarded a grant by the Norwegian Research Council to study the financial lives of the poor in India. Assistant Professor Yi Huang was recently chosen to pursue a fellowship at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.

CCDP launches new project
27.05.2013 - Building on previous work on the role of civil society in peacebuilding, the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) has begun a new, multi-year research initiative on “Broadening Participation in Track One Peace Negotiations”.
  Governance Entrepreneurs project extended
20.05.2013 - The Swiss National Science Foundation recently awarded a grant for the continuation of Professor Liliana B. Andonova's book-length project "Governance Entrepreneurs: International Organisations and Public-Private Partnerships". The project analyses the rise of global public-private partnerships and how it influences change in global governance.

Event Kicks off Afghanistan Project
28.03.2013 - Last week on 21 and 22 March, an international team of researchers, headed by Professor Alessandro Monsutti in collaboration with Antonio Donini, from the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, came to the Graduate Institute for a workshop entitled “Afghanistan in Perspective: Understanding Social Change”.

New Project at CIES

21.03.2013 - Marie Curie Fellow, Joëlle Noailly, will explore green tech in developing countries. Today CO2 emissions produced by the developing world exceed those from developed countries while most of the investment and know how surrounding green technology is concentrated in the developed world.


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