WHAT IS: The Minerva Initiative (USA-DoD/CA-U15)

WHAT IS: The Minerva Initiative (USA-DoD/CA-U15)

Postby Oscar » Mon Mar 23, 2015 9:08 am

WHAT IS: The Minerva Initiative (American Dept. of Defense (DoD)

[ http://minerva.dtic.mil/overview.html ]

(On the Canadian side of the border is the ”U15″: Group of (15) Canadian Research Universities:
[ http://www.u15.ca/ ] )


The Minerva Initiative is a Department of Defense (DoD)-sponsored, university-based social science research initiative launched by the Secretary of Defense in 2008 focusing on areas of strategic importance to U.S. national security policy.

The goal of the Minerva Initiative is to improve DoD’s basic understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral, and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the U.S.

The research program will:

- Leverage and focus the resources of the Nation's top universities.

- Seek to define and develop foundational knowledge about sources of present and future conflict with an eye toward better understanding of the political trajectories of key regions of the world.

- Improve the ability of DoD to develop cutting-edge social science research, foreign area and interdisciplinary studies, that is developed and vetted by the best scholars in these fields.

The Minerva Initiative brings together universities, research institutions, and individual scholars and supports interdisciplinary and cross-institutional projects addressing specific topic areas determined by the Secretary of Defense.

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[ http://minerva.dtic.mil/overview.html ]
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