{"id":26916,"date":"2017-06-19T12:34:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T19:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=26916"},"modified":"2019-02-14T10:03:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T18:03:52","slug":"anita-weiss-receives-large-grant-research-countering-violent-extremism-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/anita-weiss-receives-large-grant-research-countering-violent-extremism-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Anita Weiss receives large grant for research on countering violent extremism in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>June 12, 2017\u2014<\/strong>CSWS faculty affiliate <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/aweiss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anita M. Weiss<\/a> recently received a Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Award in the amount of $34,000 to support research for her book project <em>Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Local Actions, Local Voices.<\/em> The research will be conducted September 2017 &#8211; March 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/hfg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation<\/a> \u201csupports research and programs to enhance understanding and develop solutions to violence and conflict in the United States and around the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26917\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/anita-weiss-receives-large-grant-research-countering-violent-extremism-pakistan\/anita-weiss-with-books\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26917\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26917\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26917\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/anita-weiss-with-books-300x224.jpeg\" alt=\"\" height=\"224\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/anita-weiss-with-books-300x224.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/anita-weiss-with-books-150x112.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/anita-weiss-with-books-768x574.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/anita-weiss-with-books-1024x765.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/anita-weiss-with-books-560x418.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/anita-weiss-with-books-260x194.jpeg 260w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/anita-weiss-with-books-160x120.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anita Weiss stands beside two recent co-edited books at Saeed Book Bank, Islamabad, August 2014.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Weiss is a professor in the UO Department of International Studies. Her most recent books include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Interpreting Islam, Modernity and Women\u2019s Rights in Pakistan<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); South Asian edition by Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi, 2015 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SQl6-uOMJYo&amp;noredirect=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> from Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, discussing the book manuscript (paperback by Palgrave Macmillan April 2016)<br \/>\n* Interview with Sher Ali Tareen on New Books in Islamic Studies series, January 2016<\/li>\n<li>Co-editor (with Arjun Guneratne) and contributor <em>Pathways to Power: the Domestic Politics of South Asia<\/em> (Rowman &amp; Littlefield, 2014); South Asian edition by Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi, 2014<\/li>\n<li>Co-Editor (with Saba Gul Khattak) and contributor <em>Development Challenges confronting Pakistan<\/em> (Kumarian Press, 2013); South Asian edition by Viva Books, New Delhi, 2013.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 12, 2017\u2014CSWS faculty affiliate Anita M. Weiss recently received a Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Award in the amount of $34,000 to support research for her book project Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Local Actions, Local Voices. The research will&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/anita-weiss-receives-large-grant-research-countering-violent-extremism-pakistan\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,17,5],"tags":[665,56,666,147,158],"class_list":["post-26916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-faculty-affiliates","category-research","tag-anita-weiss","tag-csws","tag-harry-frank-guggenheim-research-award","tag-pakistan","tag-uo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26916"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30205,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26916\/revisions\/30205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}