FSI Centers and Programs

Scholars at the Institute's research centers conduct research and teaching on such issues as nuclear proliferation, chemical and bioterrorism, democracy and the rule of law, conflict prevention and peacekeeping, international health policy and infectious diseases, and the political economy and regional dynamics of Asia. This work is conducted in collaboration with Stanford's world-class schools of business, earth sciences, education, engineering, humanities and sciences, law and medicine.

FSI Research Centers

Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (CHP/PCOR)
The Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research conduct innovative, multidisciplinary research on health policy and healthcare delivery in the United States and abroad.

» Center on Advancing Decision Making in Aging (CADMA)

» Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging (CDEHA)

» Children in Crisis

» International Activities at CHP/PCOR

» Patient Safety Research Group

» Stanford University/University of California, San Francisco Evidence-based Practice Center

» Support for Quality Indicators

Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
The Center for International Security and Cooperation is dedicated to producing policy-relevant research on international security problems, training the next generation of security specialists, and influencing policymaking in international security.

» Conflict Resolution

» Global Governance and Organizations

» International Relations in a Connected World

» Nuclear and Related Security Issues

» Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Homeland Security

Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL)
The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) is committed to both academic and practical research that can illuminate the causes of governance failures, and understand how democracy, development and the rule of law can be promoted.

» Program on Democracy

» Program on Evaluating International Influences on Democratic Development

» Program on Experiments in Governance in Developing Countries (EGAP)

» Program on Global Justice (PGJ)

» Program on Good Governance and Political Reform in the Arab World

» Program on Human Rights

» Program on Law and Economy in India

» Program on Liberation Technology

» Program on Oil Wealth Management in Developing States

» Program on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy

» Program on Regime Type and Economic Development

» Program on State Building and the Rule of Law

Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC)
Shorenstein APARC produces and publishes outstanding interdisciplinary Asia-Pacific-focused research; educates students, scholars, and corporate and governmental affiliates; and guides Asian nations on key policy issues related to societal transition, development, U.S.-Asia relations, and regional cooperation.

» Asia Health Policy Program

» Divided Memories and Reconciliation

» Korean Studies Program (KSP)

» Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF)

» Stanford China Program

» Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE)

Research Programs within FSI

Contemporary History and the Future of Memory and Reconciliation
In spring 2009, the Forum on Contemporary Europe (FCE) and the Division on Languages, Civilizations and Literatures (DLCL) delivered the first part of its multi-year research and public policy program on Contemporary History and the Future of Memory. The program explored how communities that have unde ...

Forum on Contemporary Europe (FCE)
The Forum on Contemporary Europe (FCE) is dedicated to innovative thinking about Europe in the new millennium. European Union expansion deepens the challenges of democratic governance, economic growth, security, and cultural integration.

» A Comparative Analysis of Online Distribution of Software in the United States and Europe: Piracy or Freedom of "First Use"?

» A Status Report from the Software Decompilation Battle

» Austria in the Postwar World

» Comparative Study of Farm Policy Reform in the EU and US

» Democracy in the European Union

» Europe, America and the Multilateral Trade System

» European Union Commerce Law: Consolidated Legislation

» European Union E-commerce Law Project

» Information Security Law in the EU and the U.S.: A Risk-Based Assessment of Implicit and Explicit Regulatory Policies

» Principles of European Integration: Treaty revisions in multi-stage two-level processes

» Semantic Information Systems and Visualization

» The Cult of the Cross in Byzantium

» The Origins of Democratic Institutions in Europe

» The Patent Application: A Comparison between Europe and the U.S.

Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD)
The Program on Energy and Sustainable Development sponsors world-class research on the political, legal, and economic aspects of the world's energy system and is catalyzing the creation of a funded, worldwide network of researchers working on these issues.

» Building a Low-Carbon Electricity Supply Industry

» Climate Change Policy

» Geopolitics of Gas

» Global Coal Markets

» Low Income Energy Services

» National Oil Companies

» Political Economy of Electricity Reform

Program on Food Security and the Environment (FSE)
FSE aims to generate innovative solutions to the persistent problems of global hunger and environmental damage from agricultural practices worldwide through a focused research portfolio and an interdisciplinary team of scholars.

» Agricultural Innovation: Technology, Development, and Well-being

» Aquaculture: Risks, Trends, and Sustainable Options

» Biofuels Expansion: Implications for Global Food Markets, Land Use Change, and Climate

» Climate and Agriculture: Models, Impacts, and Adaptation Strategies

» Crop and Livestock Systems: Pressures, Projections, and Consequences

» Deadly Connections: Climate Change, Disease, Poverty and Conflict

» REAP: Rural Education Action Project

Rural Education Action Project (REAP)
The Rural Education Action Project (REAP) conducts real world, experiment-based research to provide policy makers with clear scientific results that can help shape successful policies to improve the effectiveness of K-12+ rural education programs for young students in China.

» Boarding for 10 Million

» Contracting for Dreams in Ningshan County

» Education for Migrant Children: Peer Tutoring Versus Paying for Grades

» Giving Rural Children in China a Head Start: Providing Families Pre-school Vouchers to Improve the Educational Readiness of Pre-school Age Children in Rural China

» Heart to Heart, Hand to Hand: Training Pre-school Teachers to Improve the Educational Readiness of Pre-school Age Children in Rural China

» If High School Were Free? (SOAR Foundation )

» Meeting the Unmet Needs of China’s Neediest: Junior High Financial Aid in Shilou County

» Overcoming China's Anemia Puzzle in Poor Rural Elementary Schools: School Lunches, Nutrition Supplementation, Education or Deworming?

» Paying for Performance in the Battle Against Anemia in China

» Scholarships with Strings Attached: Promoting Community Service

Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN)
This program is an interdisciplinary center for the study of international and intergroup conflict and negotiation.

Education Programs

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