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Diplomacy Lab Project Menu for Spring 2025

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Projects by Discipline

Climate, Energy and Environment Project Descriptions

  • Mapping Climate-Health Commitments in the Pacific Region
  • Addressing the Escalating Air Quality Crisis in Karachi, the Fourth Most Polluted City in the World
  • Ecosystem Restoration After Invasive Species Removal at the U.S.-Mexico Border
  • Advancing Interoperable Carbon Markets in ASEAN
  • Unhappy Isles: Climate Crisis, Pacific Islanders, and US (and PRC?) Efforts to Turn the Tide
  • Youth-Driven Urban Planning: Enhancing Walkability and Green Spaces in the United States and Spain
  • Renewable Energy Infrastructure Expansion
  • Urban Planning for Ukraine’s Green Recovery
  • Developing Best Practices for Sustainable Development at U.S.-Mexico’s Largest Port
  • Using Satellite Data to Inform Water Decisions in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
  • Maritime Cultural Protection and Onshore Preservation Impact for Communities
  • Every Drop Counts: The Case for Modernizing Central Asia’s Water Infrastructure
  • Complementing Regulations – Developing Food Regulatory Infrastructure to Facilitate Access to Nuclear Science and Technology in Support of the Global Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
  • Reducing Carbon Emissions in Agricultural and Forestry Sectors of Kazakhstan 

Communications and Marketing Project Descriptions

  • Niger Online Disinformation Tracker (NODT)
  • “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them” or Combatting Disinformation in the Pacific
  • Keeping an Eye Out: Monitoring Independent Russian Media in Lithuania
  • Unpopular: How Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace Can Court the Public\
  • Thirty Years After Normalization: A Celebration of the U.S.-Vietnam relationship
  • Campaign to Attract More International Students from the Middle East
  • Evaluating the Perception of Al-Jazeera in the U.S.: Pre- and Post-October 7th 

Computer and Data Science and ICT Project Descriptions

  • Strategic Planning and Microlearning
  • Telling the U.S. Economic Impact Story in Southeast Asia
  • Niger Online Disinformation Tracker (NODT)
  • Using Digital Technology to Combat Technology-Facilitated Human Trafficking: Methods and Strategies
  • North America’s Digital Future: A Survey of Mexican Laws and Regulations Governing Cyber Security and Digital Policy
  • Keeping an Eye Out: Monitoring Independent Russian Media in Lithuania
  • DPRK: Technological Solutions to Increase Access to Information
  • Overview and Gap Analysis of Information Sharing between U.S. Government, International Partners, and the Private Sector in Response to Cryptocurrency Crimes
  • Analysis of the Remittance Economy, its Participants, and Sufficiency of Related Regulatory and Supervisory Regimes 

Conflict, Defense and Security Project Descriptions

  • Comparison of Stabilization and Conflict Prevention Activities
  • Unpopular: How Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace Can Court the Public
  • Modeling Indicators-Warnings to Anticipate and Prevent Conflict in the Maritime Domains
  • Preventing Violent Extremism in Uzbekistan
  • Collective Security for Surety: Understanding and Leveraging Non-Traditional Donor Efforts in Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE)
  • Identifying Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Trends
  • Identifying Potential EXBS Partner Countries
  • Understanding AI and Strategic Trade
  • Proliferation Financing and Public-Private Partnerships
  • Assessing Open-Source Analytical Tools to Identify Sanctions Evasion
  • Leveraging OSINT to Map PRC University Partnerships Globally
  • Understanding the Biotechnology Start-Up Landscape in India in 2023 

Diplomacy and International Relations Project Descriptions

  • Developing Case Studies on the Conduct of Diplomacy and Diplomatic Tradecraft
  • How Do Cities and States Conduct International Relations?
  • Analysis and Recommendations for U.S. Policy Towards Mexico
  • Integrating Iberian Partners into the United States Space Agenda 

Economics: Business, Finance and Sanctions Project Descriptions 

  • Telling the U.S. Economic Impact Story in Southeast Asia
  • Proposal to Research Migrant Worker Remittance Flows to Uzbekistan and its Central Asian Neighbors
  • Proposal to Research Chinese Investment in Uzbekistan and Central Asia
  • Proposal to Conduct a Mirror Analysis of Trade Data on Dual Use Battlefield Commodities
  • Identifying Potential EXBS Partner Countries
  • Proliferation Financing and Public-Private Partnerships
  • Assessing Open-Source Analytical Tools to Identify Sanctions Evasion
  • Promoting Peace Through Business: Connecting Colombian Farmers in Former Coca Areas to U.S. Markets
  • Money and Democracy: How Changing Currency Regimes Impacts Political Stability
  • Attracting and Retaining Highly Skilled Foreign Workers and Investors – Analyzing the U.S. Economic and Diplomatic Impact of Domestic Renewal for H-1B and Other Skilled Worker and Investor Visas
  • Local Governments’ Access to Colombian Federal Government Resources
  • DPRK Human Rights: Forced Labor and Supply Chain Due Diligence
  • How the COVID-19 Pandemic Transformed Global Fiscal Transparency Standards
  • The Illicit Importation of Mexican Oil into the United States by Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs)
  • Free Trade Zones in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC): Analyzing and Understanding the Trade-Offs of FTZs in the GCC
  • Corruption’s Link to Migration in the Western Hemisphere
  • Forecasting the Trajectory of the Global Cross-Border Payment Landscape
  • Comparative Analysis of Artificial Intelligence Regulation and Supervision for Financial Institutions
  • Identifying State Requirements Relating to Company Formation and Trust Registration
  • Analysis of the Remittance Economy, its Participants, and Sufficiency of Related Regulatory and Supervisory Regimes
  • Social Justice as a Measure of Economic Impact: Recommendations in Adopting A-4 Circular Best Practices
  • Assessment of the Effectiveness of Financial Channels in Facilitating Humanitarian Activities and Protecting Against Sanctions Evasion 

Education, Cultural Studies and Youth Project Descriptions

  • Strategic Planning and Microlearning
  • Surfing the Wave of Youth Pan-Africanism
  • Where Are All the Americans? Barriers to U.S. Students Studying Abroad in India 

Global Health Project Descriptions

  • Mapping Climate-Health Commitments in the Pacific Region
  • Addressing the Escalating Air Quality Crisis in Karachi, the Fourth Most Polluted City in the World
  • Youth-Driven Urban Planning: Enhancing Walkability and Green Spaces in the United States and Spain 

Human Rights Project Descriptions

  • Best Practices in Government Approaches to Global Civil Rights Movements and Militant Separatism
  • Using Digital Technology to Combat Technology-Facilitated Human Trafficking: Methods and Strategies
  • Money and Democracy: How Changing Currency Regimes Impacts Political Stability
  • Strategy for Abolition of Burma’s 1982 Citizenship Law
  • Relationship between Transitional Justice and Past Injustices in U.S. Overseas Territories
  • The Return of Property as a Transitional Justice Measure
  • Holding Iranian-aligned Militias Accountable in the NEA Region
  • Investigating Global Human Rights Trends
  • DPRK: Technological Solutions to Increase Access to Information
  • DPRK Human Rights Abuses: Data, Documentation, and Accountability 

International Development and Law Project Descriptions

  • North America’s Digital Future: A Survey of Mexican Laws and Regulations Governing Cyber Security and Digital Policy
  • Maritime Cultural Protection and Onshore Preservation Impact for Communities
  • Promoting Peace Through Business: Connecting Colombian Farmers in Former Coca Areas to U.S. Markets
  • Disrupting the Pacific: Factors of Instability and Future U.S. Engagement
  • Strategy for Abolition of Burma’s 1982 Citizenship Law
  • The Return of Property as a Transitional Justice Measure
  • Global Criminal Justice Rewards Program (GCJRP) Authorities Revisions
  • Local Governments’ Access to Colombian Federal Government Resources 

Law Enforcement: Criminal Justice and Narcotics Project Descriptions

  • Invisible Lines: Mapping the Impact of Cocaine on Belgian Society
  • Holding Iranian-aligned Militias Accountable in the NEA Region
  • Global Criminal Justice Rewards Program (GCJRP) Authorities Revisions
  • Addressing Impunity in Gender-based Violence
  • Whistleblower Protection: an Element of Protection and Not a Mechanism to Target Opposition
  • Building Inclusive Community Safety Programs: Addressing Crime and Enhancing Security in Trinidad and Tobago’s Diverse Communities
  • The Illicit Importation of Mexican Oil into the United States by Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs)
  • Identifying Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Trends
  • Overview and Gap Analysis of Information Sharing between U.S. Government, International Partners, and the Private Sector in Response to Cryptocurrency Crimes
  • Comparative Analysis of Artificial Intelligence Regulation and Supervision for Financial Institutions
  • Identifying State Requirements Relating to Company Formation and Trust Registration
  • Social Justice as a Measure of Economic Impact: Recommendations in Adopting A-4 Circular Best Practices 

Social Sciences Project Descriptions

  • Effective Indicators for Diplomatic Engagement
  • Preventing Violent Extremism in Uzbekistan
  • Developing Case Studies on the Conduct of Diplomacy and Diplomatic Tradecraft
  • Best Practices in Government Approaches to Global Civil Rights Movements and Militant Separatism
  • Modeling Indicators-Warnings to Anticipate and Prevent Conflict in the Maritime Domains
  • Identifying Malign Interference by the Russian Orthodox Church in Africa
  • Addressing Impunity in Gender-based Violence
  • Building Inclusive Community Safety Programs: Addressing Crime and Enhancing Security in Trinidad and Tobago’s Diverse Communities 

Projects by Region

Africa Project Descriptions

  • Niger Online Disinformation Tracker (NODT)
  • Surfing the Wave of Youth Pan-Africanism
  • Developing Case Studies on the Conduct of Diplomacy and Diplomatic Tradecraft
  • Identifying Potential EXBS Partner Countries
  • Money and Democracy: How Changing Currency Regimes Impacts Political Stability
  • Identifying Malign Interference by the Russian Orthodox Church in Africa 

East Asia Project Descriptions

  • Comparison of Stabilization and Conflict Prevention Activities
  • Modeling Indicators-Warnings to Anticipate and Prevent Conflict in the Maritime Domains
  • Thirty Years After Normalization: A Celebration of the U.S.-Vietnam relationship
  • Leveraging OSINT to Map PRC University Partnerships Globally
  • DPRK: Technological Solutions to Increase Access to Information
  • DPRK Human Rights: Forced Labor and Supply Chain Due Diligence
  • DPRK Human Rights Abuses: Data, Documentation, and Accountability

South Asia Project Descriptions

  • Best Practices in Government Approaches to Global Civil Rights Movements and Militant Separatism
  • Addressing the Escalating Air Quality Crisis in Karachi, the Fourth Most Polluted City in the World
  • Identifying Potential EXBS Partner Countries
  • Where Are All the Americans? Barriers to U.S. Students Studying Abroad in India
  • Understanding the Biotechnology Start-Up Landscape in India in 2023

Southeast Asia Project Descriptions

  • Telling the U.S. Economic Impact Story in Southeast Asia
  • Developing Case Studies on the Conduct of Diplomacy and Diplomatic Tradecraft
  • Maritime Cultural Protection and Onshore Preservation Impact for Communities
  • Advancing Interoperable Carbon Markets in ASEAN
  • Strategy for Abolition of Burma’s 1982 Citizenship Law

Pacific and Oceania Project Descriptions

  • Mapping Climate-Health Commitments in the Pacific Region
  • Unhappy Isles: Climate Crisis, Pacific Islanders, and US (and PRC?) Efforts to Turn the Tide
  • Disrupting the Pacific: Factors of Instability and Future U.S. Engagement
  • “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them” or Combatting Disinformation in the Pacific
  • Relationship Between Transitional Justice and Past Injustices in U.S. Overseas Territories

Eastern Europe Project Descriptions

  • Using Digital Technology to Combat Technology-Facilitated Human Trafficking: Methods and Strategies
  • Assessing Open-Source Analytical Tools to Identify Sanctions Evasion
  • Keeping an Eye Out: Monitoring Independent Russian Media in Lithuania
  • Urban Planning for Ukraine’s Green Recovery

Eurasia and Central Asia Project Descriptions

  • Preventing Violent Extremism in Uzbekistan
  • Proposal to Research Migrant Worker Remittance Flows to Uzbekistan and its Central Asian Neighbors
  • Proposal to Research Chinese Investment in Uzbekistan and Central Asia
  • Proposal to Conduct a Mirror Analysis of Trade Data on Dual Use Battlefield Commodities
  • Every Drop Counts: The Case for Modernizing Central Asia’s Water Infrastructure
  • Reducing carbon emissions in agricultural and forestry sectors of Kazakhstan

Western Europe Project Descriptions

  • Invisible Lines: Mapping the Impact of Cocaine on Belgian Society
  • Integrating Iberian Partners into the United States Space Agenda
  • Youth-Driven Urban Planning: Enhancing Walkability and Green Spaces in the United States and Spain 

Middle East and North Africa Project Descriptions

  • Holding Iranian-aligned Militias Accountable in the NEA Region
  • Campaign to Attract More International Students from the Middle East
  • Evaluating the Perception of Al-Jazeera in the U.S.: Pre- and Post-October 7th
  • Free Trade Zones in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC): Analyzing and Understanding the Trade-Offs of FTZs in the GCC

Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean Project Descriptions

  • Ecosystem Restoration After Invasive Species Removal at the U.S.-Mexico Border
  • Analysis and Recommendations for U.S. Policy Towards Mexico
  • North America’s Digital Future: A Survey of Mexican Laws and Regulations Governing Cyber Security and Digital Policy
  • Using Satellite Data to Inform Water Decisions in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
  • Developing Best Practices for Sustainable Development at U.S.-Mexico’s Largest Port
  • Building Inclusive Community Safety Programs: Addressing Crime and Enhancing Security in Trinidad and Tobago’s Diverse Communities
  • The Illicit Importation of Mexican Oil into the United States by Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs)
  • Corruption’s Link to Migration in the Western Hemisphere

South America Project Descriptions

  • Developing Case Studies on the Conduct of Diplomacy and Diplomatic Tradecraft
  • Promoting Peace Through Business: Connecting Colombian Farmers in Former Coca Areas to U.S. Markets
  • Addressing Impunity in Gender-based Violence
  • Whistleblower Protection: An Element of Protection and Not a Mechanism to Target Opposition
  • Unpopular: How Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace Can Court the Public
  • Local Governments’ Access to Colombian Federal Government Resources

United States Project Descriptions

  • Strategic Planning and Microlearning
  • Effective Indicators for Diplomatic Engagement
  • How Do Cities and States Conduct International Relations
  • Attracting and Retaining Highly Skilled Foreign Workers and Investors – Analyzing the U.S. Economic and Diplomatic Impact of Domestic Renewal for H-1B and Other Skilled Worker and Investor Visas
  • Youth-Driven Urban Planning: Enhancing Walkability and Green Spaces in the United States and Spain
  • How the COVID-19 Pandemic Transformed Global Fiscal Transparency Standards
  • Overview and Gap Analysis of Information Sharing between U.S. Government, International Partners, and the Private Sector in Response to Cryptocurrency Crimes
  • Social Justice as a Measure of Economic Impact: Recommendations in Adopting A-4 Circular Best Practices