This SSHRC-funded collaborative and interdisciplinary project connects scholars and practitioners to explore the diverse meanings and uses of “localization” in world politics. Outcomes include a special forum of Global Studies Quarterly, a web-based policy guide to localization, and a podcast series.

CIPSS is the co-host of the new Research Network on Women, Peace and Security. The Network seeks to mobilize expertise on issues related to the WPS agenda, and more broadly, to the intersections of militarism, (in)security, settler-colonialism, gender, race, sexuality, and disability.

This CIPSS research stream comprises a series of projects and policy-engagement activities —including dialogues with the UN—that relate to the protection of civilian populations in armed conflict, refugees, and internally displaced peoples.

CIPSS members are core members of The Global Research Network on Peaceful Change—or GRENPEC—which focuses on the study of the causes, sources, mechanisms, and consequences of peaceful change at the international, regional, and domestic levels.

This new research cluster brings together an inter-disciplinary group of scholars from McGill University and Université de Montréal to analyze the evolution of international institutions in response to endogenous and exogenous factors.