Awards & Grants

Awards
  • Kadir Has Scientific Achievement Award, 2025
  • Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship, United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC, March- December 2018 (100.000 USD)
  • Turkish Science Academy, Young Scientist Award, BAGEP, 2013
  • Fulbright Senior Scholarship, September 2011-February 2012 (50.000 USD)
  • International Association for Conflict Management Service Award, July 2011.
  • Outstanding Dissertation Award, Syracuse University awarded for doctoral dissertation, May 2005. Phi Beta Delta Award, honor society for scholars in international education, 2002.
Grants
  • Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Research Grant on the Review of the Toolkit for Women Inclusion and Effective Peace Processes, September 2024-April 2025.
  • Research Grant from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, Norway, Turkey, Finland and Germany, “Broadening Public Participation in Peace Negotiations” joint research project conducted with Dr. Thania Paffenholz from the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva (CCDP), May 2013-May 2014. 330.000 CHD.
  • German Marshall Fund-Black Sea Trust Fund grant, “A Confidence-Building and Reconciliation Field Guide for More Sustainable and Efficient Turkish-Armenian Cross-Border Partnerships” (project director with Burcu Gultekin Punsmann from TEPAV)
  • TUBITAK Research Grant (Evrena), The Effects of Leadership Style and Personality on Turkish Foreign Policy, October 2010- October 2012 project code: 110K112 (with Juliet Kaarbo from Kansas University and Binnur Ozkececi-Taner from Hamline University) 68.000 TL.
  • TUBITAK Research Grant (Career Development), Evaluating Transfer Strategies in Track Two Diplomacy, April 2010-July 2011, project code 109K437.
  • TÜBİTAK conference funding, for “Civil Society and Peacebuilding” workshop and book project United States Institute of Peace, Research Grant (with Lou Kriesberg, Bruce Dayton, and Paula Gutlove) for the project “Oslo and its Aftermath: Lessons Learned from Track Two Diplomacy,” 2004-2005, project code SG-239-03F.
  • Sabanci University Activity Grant, awarded to organize the workshop titled “Oslo and its Aftermath: Lessons Learned from Track Two Diplomacy,” Spring 2005, project code ISCG05-00299.
  • Goekjian Research Grant, Moynihan Institute for Global Affairs, Syracuse University, 2002-2003. Research Grant, Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, Syracuse University, 2002. Summer Research/Creative Project Grant, Syracuse University, 2002.
  • Research Grant, Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC), 1999. Tuition Scholarship and Graduate Assistantship, Syracuse University, 1997-2001. Maxwell Dean’s Summer Scholarship, Summer 1998.