This is Conflict Consortium’s second annual effort at providing students who want to pursue a PhD at a US department of political science university in the fields of political conflict/violence (e.g., genocide, civil war, human rights, atrocity, terrorism and revolution) and peace (e.g., negotiation, non-violent direct action, social movements and cooperation) with important information to help them evaluate graduate programs. The data at the core of this guide come from a large survey of scholars in research-oriented political science department that we conducted in late October 2017. We sent the survey to all 3,607 faculty members at the 120 institutions listed in the 2017 editions of US News World & Report's Best Political Science Programs ranking. During the eight days we collected data, 71 participants across 57 institutions participated in the survey (though not everyone completed it). Our hope is that more conflict/peace scholars will participate in future years.  

We report the lightly cleaned results of our survey here. When multiple people replied for a department, we aggregated their answers. The results here are also available in a raw text file and in wide- and long-form datasets. We think that prospective graduate students evaluating conflict/peace-programs would do well to review this data. Some faculty might find it of interest as well.

The Conflict Consortium 

The Consortium changed some things in order to better move forward.  One of these involved the development of a new logo (from Charles Crabtree).  In honor of our beloved co-founder who passed (Will Moore), we have one black one with white letters (for him) and ​one white one with black letters (for me).  

Consortium Out!