Ongoing Projects
Cooperative Security, Arms Control and Disarmament
Climate Change and Conflict
Global Challenges to Democracy
Peace and Security in Northeast Asia
Social Media, Technology and Peacebuilding
- All Themes
- Contemporary Peace Research and Practice
- Cooperative Security, Arms Control and Disarmament
- Climate Change and Conflict
- Global Challenges to Democracy
- Peace and Security in Northeast Asia
- Social Media, Technology and Peacebuilding
- Conflict Prevention and Peace Building
- Past Research
- New Technologies, Security and Peace (old theme)
- Non-violence and Conflict Transformation (old theme)
Preventing and Managing Nuclear Risk in Northeast Asia
Managing First-Strike Pressures, the Nuclear Taboo, and Proliferation Risks in Northeast Asia (2026) Northeast Asia faces a convergence of nuclear escalation and proliferation risks more acute and interconnected than at any point since the Cold…
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Building Regional Resilience: Climate, Environment and Peace│Lessons from South and Southeast Asia
Climate change is reshaping the security landscape of South Asia, transforming environmental stress into a driver of conflict risk across shared land and maritime spaces. Resource scarcity, disrupted fisheries, and climate-induced migration increasingly test the…
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Multilateralism and the Future of Asian Peace amid US–China Rivalry
Regional multilateralism has long anchored the Asia–Pacific security order. Since the end of the Cold War, ASEAN-led frameworks such as the ASEAN Regional Forum, the East Asia Summit, and the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting Plus…
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Culturally Grounded Peacebuilding in the Face of Climate Displacement
Pacific Island nations have identified climate change, through the Boe Declaration on Regional Security, as the single greatest threat to their security, livelihoods, and well-being. Between 2018 and 2025, the Toda Peace Institute's Climate Change…
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Deliberative Technologies in Afghanistan
This applied research focuses on the use of deliberative technologies to support inclusive dialogue among Afghan civil society actors operating under authoritarian constraints. The central research question guiding is whether deliberative digital technologies can enable…
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Interoperable Deliberative Technology
Deliberative technologies enable people to listen at scale to each other and dialogue with each other by adding their policy ideas, and identifying other's ideas they agree with. Algorithms on some of these platforms incentivize and…
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Democratic Resilience
This project is a wide-angled look at the multi-layered forces that are contributing to democratic backsliding. The growing erosion of democracy across the globe is spurred by the interaction of many different forces and challenges,…
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An Eye on Arab De-democratization
The Arab region (interchangeably Middle East and North Africa – MENA) has had a chequered history with democratization. Evidently, today, the trend is not one of democratic transition but rather one of ‘autocratization’, i.e. of…
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Reinventing Multilateralism: The United Nations
The United Nations is operating under conditions for which it was not designed. The current crisis is not primarily managerial. It reflects deeper structural tensions. Four interrelated deficits define the problem. The first is the…
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Challenges to Indian Democracy
In what has been described as the world’s largest democracy, the BJP led by Narendra Modi was returned for a third consecutive term in 2024. Many see this as being a political party which ideologically…
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