Security, Leadership, and Development

该项目将对社会文化对人口的影响的空间范围以及特定群体或个人在公众参与中发挥领导作用的程度产生新的基本地理认识。该项目将通过考虑家庭、教育、宗教、社会和其他网络对公众参与活动的影响程度，解决影响人口不同阶层公众参与的复杂因素。不同的社会文化影响将与信仰和行为的发展相关，从而导致公众参与中的差异领导。这项研究将提供与公众参与相关的群体多样性的见解，而不是将所有人作为单一类别进行分析。该项目的结果将具有政策意义，并为国家安全利益提供有关新兴参与模式和参与公众参与的群体动机的信息。这种对相互竞争的影响和不断变化的社会角色的多层审查将促进现有的分析框架，以评价和采取确保社区安全与稳定的最有效手段。作为该项目的一部分，将培训一名博士后和一名研究生，从而提高美国的科学资源能力。该项目的研究设计将考察公共空间在不同视角和社会地位下的不同使用。具体而言，该项目将侧重于妇女在其家庭和社区中成为领导者的复杂动力。该项目将寻求两个主要研究问题的答案：(1)迫使妇女参加不同类型组织的社会、经济和其他影响或驱动因素是什么？(2)女性领导人如何影响公众参与并确保家庭和社区的安全？调查人员将对不同地区、种族、社会经济阶层水平、教育经历和影响规模的组织参与情况进行多地点定性分析。数据收集方法将包括访谈，焦点小组和内容分析数据从印刷来源和文件。该项目将重点关注阿富汗，从国家安全的角度来看，这个国家一直是美国非常感兴趣的国家，它将为考虑不同群体的公众参与提供见解和方法。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will generate new fundamental geographic understanding of the spatial extent of sociocultural influences on populations and the degree to which specific groups or individuals assume leadership in public participation. The project will address the complex factors that influence the public participation of different segments of a population by considering the degree to which family, education, religion, social, and other networks influence activity in public participation. Divergent sociocultural influences will be correlated with the development of beliefs and behaviors that lead to differential leadership in public participation. This research will provide insights regarding the diversity among groups related to their public participation rather than analyzing all people as a single category. Results from this project will have policy implications and inform national security interests regarding emerging participation patterns and the motivation for groups that are engaged in public participation. This multilayered examination of competing influences and changing social roles will advance existing analytic frameworks for evaluating and adopting the most effective means of ensuring security and stability in communities. A post-doctoral fellow and a graduate student will be trained as part of the project, thereby enhancing U.S. scientific resource capacity.The research design for this project will examine the differential use of public space across a spectrum of perspectives and social positions. Specifically, this project will focus on the complex dynamics through which women have evolved as leaders in their families and communities. The project will seek answers to two major research questions: (1) What are the social, economic, and other influences or drivers that compel women to participate in different types of organizations? (2) How do female leaders influence public participation and ensure security within their families and communities? The investigators will use multi-sited qualitative analysis of participation in organizations across different regional locations, ethnicities, socioeconomic class levels, educational experiences, and scales of influence. Data-collection methods will include interviews, focus groups, and content analysis of data from printed sources and documents. This project will focus on Afghanistan, a nation that has been of considerable interest to the United States from a national security perspective, and it will provide insights and approaches for considering public participation across different groups.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.