In 1998, Cederman received the Edgar S. Furniss Award for his monograph “Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve”.

[4] Cederman was twice granted the Heinz Eulau Award for the best article in the American Political Science Review in 2011 for the co-authored article “Horizontal Inequalities and Ethno-Nationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison”, and in 2001 for the article “Back to Kant: Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace as a Collective Learning Process.”[5] The GROWup Project,[6] which serves as the main outlet for data generated by Cederman's research group, was honoured as the “best data contribution to the study of any and all forms of political conflict” by the American Political Science Association, which awarded it with the J. David Singer Data Innovation Award in 2015.

[4] In 2018, Cederman was awarded the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize for his work on political peace-building and the inclusion of ethnic minorities.

Going beyond analysing data at the country-level, the effort has concentrated on disaggregating the unit under study, overcoming some of the inherent limitations by obtaining revealing information at different levels of aggregation.

The resulting information and indicators are made accessible in a user-friendly manner via the GROWup - Geographical Research On War, Unified Platform.