Translating research on international policy into real solutions

“Every decision we make is shaped by a clear sense of purpose.”

- Susanna Campbell, RIPIL Founder and Director

The Research on International Policy Implementation Lab (RIPIL) generates research that matters for real-world policy. Founded in 2020, RIPIL investigates pressing topics in international peace, security, development, and humanitarian response with the aim of translating scholarly research into societal impact. We do this by applying a range of methods in close partnership with decision-makers and end users.

Highlights

Highlights

Rethinking Measuring and Communicating Societal Impacts

RIPIL Director, Dr. Susanna Campbell, discusses the current challenges and opportunities facing the measurement and communication of the societal impacts of research at a seminar organized by the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes (CSPO) at Arizona State University on November 18, 2025.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8qCVMI-D08

RIPIL Working Paper 2

Whose Preferences Make the State? IO peacebuilding in autocratizing contexts

Susanna Campbell, Travis Curtice, Yolande Bouka

November 2025

Read here: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5805902

RIPIL Working Paper 1

The University as Public Good Provider: What political science can learn from other disciplines

Lindsay Kurlak Barclay, Susanna Campbell, Rachel George, Pauline Zerla

October 2025

Read here: https://doi.org/10.57912/30411037

Projects

Active Projects

Multi-Actor Security Networks and Global Order

Funder(s): Carnegie Corporation of New York

Principal Investigator(s): Aila M. Matanock (PI); Susanna Campbell (Co-PI); Nazneen Barma; Tarcisius Kabutaulaka; Courtney Fung; Jonathan Chu; Selina Ho; Emma Birikorang; Lina Benabdallah

Project Status: Active (started 2024)

RIPIL-LPI Research-Policy-Practice Partnership

Funder(s): Carnegie Corporation of New York

Principal Investigator(s): Susanna Campbell; Aaron Stanley (Co-PI)

Partner(s): Life & Peace Institute

Project Status: Active (started 2023)

American University Translating Research into Action Center (TRAC)

Funder(s): National Science Foundation

Principal Investigator(s): Diana Burley; Raychelle Burks, Susanna Campbell, Jordan Tama, and Joseph Young (Co-PIs)

Partner(s): The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Evidence Project; University of Denver

Project Status: Active (started 2024)

Networks of Influence and Support between War and Peace

Funder(s): National Science Foundation

Principal Investigator(s): Susanna Campbell; Jessica Maves Braithwaite (Co-PI)

Partner(s): University of Arizona