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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1983







journal for the field—received funds for six special issues of the Review on such topics as the role of women in migration and the statistical difficulties in measuring population flows.

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

The Foundation's work to promote international peace, security, and arms control is rooted in the belief that there is a need for specialists outside of government who can undertake authoritative analyses of specific policy issues, question official policy, and explore problems to which governments are giving insufficient attention.

For over a decade the Foundation has provided support for more than a dozen universities and research institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Australia, and Japan to conduct research and provide training on security and arms control issues. Most of the grants for these activities expired at the end of fiscal 1983, and the Foundation expects to make a new series in the coming year. The funds will support research on such topics as the nature of arms competition, international peacekeeping, strategic and theater nuclear weapons and their control, ethical dimensions of policies concerning nuclear weapons and nuclear war, the security policies of the Soviet Union, and security in Third World regions.

One leading center of research on U.S. strategic policy that has received Foundation support since 1978 is the Rand Corporation in California. Many of the

GRANTS AND PROJECTS Approvals (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
International Affairs
UNITED STATES AND WORLDWIDE
Delegated-authority project: small program actions [$1,150,000—1982] $(24,711) $199,491
Refugee and migration policy
American Council for Nationalities Service (New York) 227,000
Brandeis University [$65,000—1982] 30,000
Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West (Honolulu) 29,836 29,836
Center for Migration Studies of New York 140,242
Columbia University [$39,000—1982] (39,000)
International Council of Voluntary Agencies (Switzerland) [$100,000—1982] 100,000
Maryland, University of 62,993
Michigan State University [$40,833—1982] 40,833
New School for Social Research 113,111 40,000
Notre Dame, University of [$135,000—1982] 67,500
Social Science Research Council (New York) 300,000
Youth Project (Washington, D.C.) [$339,900—1982] 339,900
Peace and security
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cambridge, Mass.) 125,000 125,000
American Assembly (New York) 2,308 2,308
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (Washington, D.C.) 5,000 5,000
Analytic Sciences Corporation (Arlington, Va.) 50,000
Arms Control Association (Washington, D.C.) 46,850 46,850
Austrian Institute for International Affairs 5,000 5,000
Berlin, Free University of 50,000
Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.) [$200,000—1982] 176,900
California, University of (Berkeley) 28,469
Colgate University 15,000 15,000
Columbia University [$16,500—1982] 16,500
Committee for National Security (Washington, D.C.) 35,400 35,400
District 1199 Cultural Center (New York) 20,000
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (Evanston, Ill.) 24,000 24,000
Georgetown University 44,900
Ground Zero Fund (Washington, D.C.) 50,000 50,000
Hamilton, Rabinovitz & Szanton (Washington, D.C.) 259,500 215,000
Harvard University [$356,268—1982] 15,000 100,750
International Institute for Strategic Studies (England) [$500,000—1982] 296,775
Kentucky, University of 52,525 52,525
League of Women Voters Education Fund (Washington, D.C.) 50,000 50,000
Louvain, Catholic University of (Belgium) 50,000
National Opinion Research Center (Chicago) 185,000
Rand Corporation (Santa Monica, Calif.) 345,000 303,800
Research Institute for Peace and Security (Japan) 11,179
Scientists' Institute for Public Information (New York) 100,000 50,000
Security Conference on Asia and the Pacific (Marina del Rey, Calif.) 25,000
Southern California, University of 15,000 15,000
Tufts University 50,000
U.S. foreign policy
Africa News Service (Durham, N.C.) 118,000
American Assembly (New York) 52,000
American Committee on East-West Accord (Washington, D.C.) [$28,825—1982] 14,413
Asia Society (New York) [$281,000—1982] 195,000
Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies (New York) 21,250
California, University of (Los Angeles) 14,480 14,480
Columbia University [$253,400—1982] 18,140 56,400
Council on Foreign Relations (New York) [$150,000—1982] 16,950 66,950
Development Group for Alternative Policies (Washington, D.C.) 49,720 49,720
Emory University 50,000 50,000
Executive Council on Foreign Diplomats (New York) 150,000 115,000