Core to the FCO’s work is preparing for and responding to new and sometimes unexpected natural and political events whether opportunity or crisis. Research findings on current and emerging trends to improve future forecasting, or metrics to evaluate the success or otherwise of interventions, would be of interest.
Research enquiries should be submitted to email: fcocorrespondence@fco.gov.uk
Science and Innovation Network enquiries may be addressed to the general mailbox: ScienceandInnovationEnquires@fco.gsi.gov.uk or to individual SIN teams overseas at the addresses listed at https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/uk-science-and-innovation-network
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University College London
The project aims to forecast conflict escalation in the former Soviet space, which directly addresses the question.
We will develop the "Changing Character of Conflict (CCC) Platform" that will transform current ways of thinking about conflict in three ways: first, the project will be the first of its kind to produce a compr...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University of Oxford
This research project will produce a detailed portrait of the geopolitical orientations of the populations in the countries across the post-Soviet regions of Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. The investigators will...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University College London