RESEARCH AREAS & PROJECTS
Institutional Resilience
This track will focus on strengthening our democratic institutions, which rely on facts, truth, and a unifying social contract. It will examine the increasing distrust in our democratic institutions amidst social polarization and how this trend threatens our future prosperity and global security. The Center will develop practical and accessible approaches to bridging the emerging divide between the American people and the institutions that were established to serve and support them.
Where a commonly held perspective on truth and fact is no longer a societal standard, democratic institutions begin to fail, leaving large segments of the population behind. Where Americans of differing views no longer share a common value system, or an ability to communicate with one another, they become divorced from a social compact. This track identifies root causes of these challenges, countermeasures to remedy them, and strategies for action by policy makers, the media, and the general public.
Reuniting Academic Research and Innovation for National Security Requirements
Government, academia, and the private sector have become disaggregated and disconnected over the past several decades. Through convenings, research and sustained engagement, this track seeks to reconnect academic innovation and private sector entrepreneurship with critical national security requirements. Leveraging Berkeley’s proximity to Silicon Valley, the affiliated network of national security labs and Berkeley’s indigenous research strengths and history with scientific innovation, this track seeks to meet national security requirements for government agencies and institutions.
Cybersecurity and Emergent Technologies
This track studies cybersecurity, particularly as it affects critical infrastructure, as well as the security and political implications of emergent technologies such as AI, biometric-based technologies, cloud computing, and quantum computing. By bringing together leading technologists with social scientists, legal scholars, ethicists, and policy practitioners, this track examines the risks, disruptions, and opportunities innovative technologies may present for democracy and democratic institutions.
Read about CSP’s Remote Digital Voting Standards Working Group
