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The Social Science Research Council’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Daniel Goroff, a leading figure in social science, philanthropy, and science policy, as its 16th president.
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www.ssrc.org Daniel Goroff Named 16th President of the Social Science Research Council – Social Science Research... The Social Science Research Council fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of social scientists, deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines, and mobilizes necessary... 
![The skyrocketing violence in Central America calls upon scholars to examine the needed conditions for peace. This article challenges the assumption that the absence of violence among factions in conflict is the chief goal around which peacemaking efforts should operate. Based on ethnographic research with women relatives of male gang members and civil war veterans in El Salvador, I argue that the 1992 Salvadoran Peace Accords that ended twelve years of civil war developed a male-centered notion of negative peace that ended the armed conflict while naturalizing racialized state violence as part of security measures and ongoing violence against women as low-grade part of everyday life. In the post-accords era, gang members advance their version of negative peace, promising to protect women and the nation while continuing to oppress their women relatives.[continued at link]](/api/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FHWTFN3zXQAIw3xe.png)
