Over the past 3 years, PARCC has advanced research and expanded faculty participation through academic conferences that have been the springboard for books and journal articles.  In 2009, we adopted a new tactic by offering small research grants to fund PARCC faculty associates with innovative ideas.  We were delighted by the large response, diversity of projects, and significance of the ideas.  Ten grants were awarded for projects in such areas as spoiler of peace, collaborative public leadership, environmental conflicts, public deliberation, labor engagement, and public memoirs of violence.  A detailed list is below.  

Steve Brechin and Medani Bhandari   $5,000
Exploring the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN's) National Program Development in Biodiversity Conservation and How Environmental Conflicts are Addressed: A Comparative Study of India, Pakistan Nepal and Bangladesh.

 Stuart Bretschneider, Rosemary O’Leary,  and Yujin Choi   $2,000
Collaborative Experiment.

 John S. Burdick and Steve Parks   $1,500 plus Assistant
A  Comparative Study of Community-Based Agreements (CBAs) in Four US Cities.

 Bruce Dayton and Miriam F. Elman   $8,300 plus Assistant
Spoilers of Peace (SOP):  A Research Initiative on Intra-state Conflict and the Dilemmas of Peacemaking.

 Catherine Gerard, Rosemary O’Leary and Yujin Choi    $3,000
Collaborative Leadership and Governance

 Christina Sickles Merchant     $2,500
Engaging Employees, Improving Performance: The Future of Labor Engagement in the Federal Government

 Ines Mergel     $1,000 plus Assistant
Collaborative Governance Online: How Municipalities are doing more with less on SecondLife.com

 Tina Nabatchi     $2,500
Public Deliberation and Public Action: Assessing the Impact of Deliberation on Policy Choices

 Farhana Sultana   $5,000
Urban Water Governance: Water Rights and Socio-ecological Justice in the Global South

 Bradford Vivian   $2,240
Memories of Violence and the Rhetoric of Commemoration at Ground Zero

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