Tami Steinmetz Center For Peace Research is an academic research institution of Tel Aviv University which surveys public opinion regarding the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and the Arab–Israeli conflict.
The Quinnipiac University Poll is a public opinion polling center based at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.
 It surveys public opinion in Connecticut, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, and nationally.
Public Opinion Research, Inc. is a survey research company with offices in suburban Baltimore, Maryland.
 Public Opinion Research, Inc. has been specializing in survey research for over 30 years.
 Since 1976, Public Opinion Research, Inc., has been providing survey and market research to over 300 corporations, non-profit organizations, government agencies, public officials and professional associations.
 The company conducts public attitude surveys; focus groups; demographic studies and market research for development projects, publications, business groups, banks, communities and country clubs.
Claude E. Robinson (1900–1961) was an American pioneer in advertising research and opinion survey research techniques.
 Along with George Gallup, he was instrumental in developing many scientific sampling techniques that were later used in Gallup polls and other public opinion research surveys.
Elmo Burns Roper, Jr. (July 31, 1900 in Hebron, Nebraska – April 30, 1971 in Redding, Connecticut) was a pollster known for his pioneering work in market research and opinion polling.
 In 1933, he cofounded Cherington, Wood, and Roper, a marketing research firm.
 When that partnership fell apart, he founded his own research company, Elmo Roper, Inc.
 He was hired by Henry Luce in 1935 to run surveys for "Fortune", continuing these surveys for 15 years.
 His prediction of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's electoral victory over Alf Landon in 1936 was correct to within 0.9%; his 1940 prediction of Roosevelt's victory was correct to within 0.5%, further solidifying the reputation of Roper's techniques.
 In 1940, Roosevelt hired Roper to assess public opinion of Lend-Lease prior to its implementation.
 In 1942 he was hired by William Joseph Donovan to be the deputy director of the Office of Strategic Services; Roper subsequently worked with the Office of War Information.
 After leaving the OWI he founded the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut in 1947.
Widely regarded as the Pioneer of Peace studies in India, Professor Priyankar Upadhaya holds the UNESCO Chair for Peace and Intercultural Understanding at Banaras Hindu University(Asia's largest residential university), Varanasi.
 He also heads the Malaviya Center for Peace Research situated in the University.
 Professor Upadhayaya holds M.Phil.
 and Ph.D Degree of Jawaharlal Nehru University.
 He also holds Advance International Diploma(s) in Conflict Resolution from the Uppsala University, Sweden.
 Prof. Upadhaya has done Post-Doctoral Research at London University and the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars, Wash DC.
 He was selected for the Guest Scholar Award of the Woodrow Wilson Centre of International Scholars at Wash DC 1992, Faculty Research Award, Canadian Govt.
 1999 and Senior Fulbright Award in 2004.
 Professor Upadhyaya has taught and done research in Political Science & Conflict Resolution in many parts of the world, including Concordia University, Montreal; Ulster University in Northern Ireland, at the Department of Political Science, Karlstad University in Sweden and US Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs.
 He has also been Fellow at the Henry L Stimson Center, Wash DC, and recently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo.
 Professor Upadhyaya has publications in journals and books from OUP, MUP, CUP, Sage, Ashgate and Routledge among others and research articles in reputed International Journals such as the Denver Journal of International Law & Policy; International Studies (Sage) and Strategic Analysis (Routledge).
The Arab–Israeli conflict (Arabic: ‎ , "Al-Sira'a Al'Arabi Al-Israili " ‎ ; Hebrew: ‎ , "Ha'Sikhsukh Ha'Yisraeli-Aravi " ‎ ) is the political tension, military conflicts and disputes between a number of Arab countries and Israel.
 The roots of the modern Arab–Israeli conflict are bound in the rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism towards the end of the 19th century.
 Territory regarded by the Jewish people as their historical homeland is also regarded by the Pan-Arab movement as historically and currently belonging to the Palestinians, and in the Pan-Islamic context, as Muslim lands.
 The sectarian conflict between Palestinian Jews and Arabs emerged in the early 20th century, peaking into a full-scale civil war in 1947 and transforming into the First Arab–Israeli War in May 1948 following the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University is one of the world’s leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from public opinion surveys.
 The Center’s mission is to collect, preserve, and disseminate public opinion data; to serve as a resource to help improve the practice of survey research; and to broaden the understanding of public opinion through the use of survey data in the United States and abroad.
 Founded in 1947 by Elmo Roper, the Roper Center holds data ranging from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present.
 Its collection now includes over 22,000 datasets and adds hundreds more each year.
 In total, the archive contains responses from millions of individuals on a vast range of topics.
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (Norwegian: "Institutt for fredsforskning" ; PRIO) is an independent peace and conflict studies research institution, based in Oslo, Norway.
 It is regarded as the world's "oldest and most prominent peace research center."
 It was founded in 1959 by a group of Norwegian researchers led by Johan Galtung, the principal founder of peace and conflict studies, who was the institute's first director.
 The "Journal of Peace Research", the discipline's preeminent journal, is also published by the institute.
Centrum Badania Opinii Społecznej (CBOS) (Centre for Public Opinion Research) is an opinion polling institute in Poland, based in Warsaw.
 Originally established in communist Poland in 1982, it has operated as a non-profit public foundation created by a special law since 1997 ("Ustawy o fundacji Centrum Badania Opinii Społecznej z dn.
 20 lutego 1997 r., Dz.U.
 nr 30, poz.
 163").
 Its statutory purpose is to provide data on the population's opinion regarding political and social issues.
 Major Polish newspapers and news magazines, such as Gazeta Wyborcza, Rzeczpospolita, and Polityka, regularly commission CBOS to conduct polls.
 Apart from its public function, CBOS also conducts commercial market research to help finance its operations.

Question: Tami Steinmetz Center For Peace Research surveys public opinion regarding what conflict that transformed into war in May 1948?
Answer: Arab–Israeli conflict