Center for Social Cohesion

The Center for Social Cohesion, a joint project of Arizona State University, the New America Foundation, and Zócalo Public Square, is dedicated to studying the forces that shape our sense of social unity.

Wholly non-partisan, pluralistic and multidisciplinary in outlook, the Center for Social Cohesion seeks to promote understanding of how diverse societies cohere. Globalization, immigration, and the fragmentation of media have increased the urgency of questions surrounding national identity, citizenship, political discourse, and the fraying social contract. It’s time to devise new strategies and public policies to foster healthy civic engagement locally, encourage robust integration nationally, and explore the meaning of citizenship and community globally.

To that end, the Center for Social Cohesion fosters discourse and supports research on the ever-shifting balance between the pluribus and the unum in American society.