The Institute for Policy and Governance (VTIPG) builds strategic relationships between the university and community by linking academic research and outreach efforts to address significant public policy issues. VTIPG, a university level institute, was created to blend theory with practice by providing a variety of policy-related services.
The Institute’s current research and project emphases are concentrated around three policy areas:
Child and Family Social Welfare Policy Group
Governance and Civil Society Group
Public and Community Health Group
News and Events
- Journal of Emergency Management to publish Davos Symposium Papers
- Scholars produce Olympic Truce Center Handbook on Peacebuilding, Conflict Management and Sport
- VTIPG Awarded 3-year US Health and Human Services Grant
NEW: View VTIPG's Work In Progress
Tidings
By Max Stephenson Jr. Director of VTIPG
A quarterly reflection from the Director of the Institute
“A Free and Ordered Space” The Institute has lately been involved in a project with the International Olympic Truce Centre aimed at developing a Handbook of “best practices” employing sport as a peacebuilding tool for United Nations peacekeepers in post-conflict situations. That task has required that we first understand more deeply how much peacekeepers are using athletics for this purpose.. ... more...
