CACM director Patrick Coy and two colleagues (Gregory Maney, Hofstra University and Lynne Woehrle, Mount Mary College) received a National Science Foundation grant in August, 2004 of $110,000 for a two-year long research project: "Harnessing and Challenging Hegemony During Three Wars: The U.S. Peace Movement, 1990-2004." The project is a comparative and longitudinal analysis of the discourse of 15 U.S. peace movement organizations during the Gulf War, 9/11 and the Afghanistan War, and the Iraq War.  Link to abstract:  http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0423289

Patrick Coy (Kent State University) and Timothy Hedeen (Kennesaw State University) were awarded a $15,000 grant in December, 2004 from the Hewlett Foundation's Knowledge Gaps program for their 18 month-long research project, "Assessing the State of Undergraduate Conflict Resolution Education."