About NCOVR

The National Consortium On Violence Research (NCOVR), is a research, training, and data resource specializing in violence research. NCOVR was funded in 1995 by a grant from the National Science Foundation in cooperation with the National Institute of Justice. The Consortium's mission is to advance basic scientific knowledge about the causes or factors contributing to inter-personal violence, to train the next generation of violence researchers, and to disseminate its research findings to participants, policy-makers, and practitioners.

NCOVR is structured as a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional Consortium. Its members come from different disciplinary backgrounds including the social, biological, medical, legal and political sciences. The Consortium is comprised of over 75 eminent scholars in the field of violence research affiliated with research and educational institutions across the U.S. and abroad. Since its inception NCOVR has trained over 60 pre- and post-doctoral fellows to conduct interdisciplinary violence research. NCOVR provides web access for the general research community to major data collections relevant to violence research. Members of the research, policy, and practitioner communities also participate in periodic workshops and conferences on violence-related topics.

The Consortium's Director is Dr. Alfred Blumstein, and its Executive Director is Dr. Patricia Strauch Edgar. NCOVR is headquartered at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. An external advisory committee oversees the Consortium's strategic and operational activities.