Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: OCEAN Sustainability Pathways for Achieving Conflict Transformation

该奖项为参与一个由55个国家发起的全球变化研究计划通过贝尔蒙特论坛竞争性选定的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个研究资助组织联盟，专注于支持以跨学科方法应对全球环境变化的挑战和机遇。它的目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速开展最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除对可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国都在一个联合体内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这一办法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对具有全球相关性的专题进行出色的研究，最好是通过多国办法加以解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决办法。在这项合作研究行动中，伙伴机构提供了支持，以培养全球跨学科研究团队，以解决海洋可持续性方面的关键问题，包括海洋和海洋资源的养护和可持续利用，以促进可持续发展。这一复杂的挑战要求这些项目采用综合、跨学科和跨部门的方法，并将自然科学和社会科学以及政策制定者、资源管理者、行业、公民和其他社会合作伙伴聚集在一起。该奖项支持美国研究人员在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的财团中开展合作，以增加我们对加快海洋可持续利用和将全球变化的影响降至最低所需的复杂联系和途径的了解。该项目旨在通过审查如何利用正式干预(法律)和非正式做法(谈判)来解决冲突，调查现有的冲突解决做法如何影响海洋的可持续性。这些研究基于这样一种观点，即海洋的可持续性前景取决于建立专门的能力来分析、有效地管理和转化海洋冲突。由于海洋冲突解决是一个不发达的学术和实践领域，该小组旨在利用比较分析来研究横跨全球南北、南非、印度、巴西、挪威/巴伦支海、波罗的海和美国的冲突。该项目预计将通过包括利益相关者合作伙伴、社会和自然科学家以及冲突解决专家在内的特定背景研究团队的现实世界合作，帮助开发对各种海洋冲突的洞察。所获得的新知识将用于开发和测试解决海洋冲突的工具和做法。海洋公约项目将在这一提议产生的案例研究中产生重大的科学和社会政治利益，理想地形成促进全球海洋可持续发展的冲突解决做法。这一奖励反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions.Working together in this Collaborative Research Action, the partner agencies have provided support to foster global transdisciplinary research teams to address critical issues in ocean sustainability including, conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. This complex challenge required that the projects utilized integrated, transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approaches and bring together natural and social sciences as well as policymakers, resource managers, industries, citizens and other societal partners. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries to increase our knowledge of the complex linkages and pathways needed to accelerate sustainable use of oceans and minimize the effects from global change. The project aims to investigate how existing conflict resolution practices impact ocean sustainability by examining how formal interventions (law) and informal practices (negotiation) can be harnessed toward conflict resolution. These studies are based on the idea that ocean sustainability prospects depend on building tailor-made capabilities to analyze, productively manage, and transform ocean conflicts. Since ocean conflict resolution is an under-developed field of scholarship and practice, the team aims to use comparative analysis to study conflicts that traverse the Global North and South, in South Africa, India, Brazil, Norway/Barents Sea, Baltic Sea and United States. The project is projected to help develop insight into diverse ocean conflicts through real-world collaboration of context-specific research teams that include stakeholder partners, social and natural scientists, and conflict resolution experts. The new knowledge gained will be used to develop and test ocean conflict resolution tools and practices. The Oceans PACT project will generate significant scientific and socio-political benefits in the case studies that result from this proposal, ideally forming conflict resolution practices that foster global ocean sustainability.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.