Grants are made to study aspects of "violence related to youth, family relationships, media effects, crime, biological factors, intergroup conflict related to religion, ethnicity, and nationalism, and political violence deployed in war and sub-state terrorism, as well as processes of peace and the control of aggression."
Grants are given for research into "violence related to youth, family relationships, media impacts, criminal behavior, biological influences, intergroup conflicts stemming from religion, ethnicity, and nationalism, political violence in wars and sub-state terrorism, and mechanisms of peace and aggression control."