To maximize its impact, CPS will concentrate its research, policy engagement, and training initiatives around five integrated pillars:
Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding
Advancing research and actionable solutions to understand, prevent, and resolve violent conflict at local, national, and regional levels, with a particular focus on the drivers and dynamics unique to South Asia.
Information Integrity and Cyber Security
Addressing the rise of disinformation, misinformation, and cyber threats by examining how digital platforms and state/non-state actors shape narratives, influence public opinion, and threaten peace and stability.
Democratic Resilience
Investigating threats to democratic institutions and processes—including democratic backsliding, electoral interference, shrinking civic space, and challenges to pluralism—and promoting policy responses to sustain democratic norms.
Refugees and Human Mobility
Leading research and policy dialogue on forced displacement, cross-border migration, and refugee crises, emphasizing the drivers, experiences, and responses to human mobility in a region at the epicenter of global migration trends.
Climate Security
Examining the multifaceted impacts of climate change on peace and security, from resource competition and environmental degradation to disaster-driven migration and community resilience.