Deadline: 11th February 2024 | African Peacebuilding Network Individual Research Fellowships 2024
The Individual Research Fellowship (IRF) programme, a crucial part of the APN, is a tool for improving the calibre and recognition of independent African peacebuilding research on a regional and international scale while providing peacebuilding knowledge to important decision-makers, practitioners, and research centres of excellence in Africa and around the world. Scholarship, policy, and practise related to peacebuilding on the continent are significantly impacted by the research-based knowledge that fellowship winners provide.
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The APN, for its part, aims to incorporate the fact-based knowledge that recipients of fellowship awards develop into regional and international discussions and policies pertaining to peacebuilding. The programme also aims to create an extremely visible and engaged network of African academics and practitioners who can project African perspectives and voices onto international discourses, bodies of knowledge, and peacebuilding practises.
Which Fields Qualify?
The following topics are supported for research and analysis:
- The underlying causes and rising trends in violent conflict;
- Dispute over natural resources;
- Geopolitics, Conflict and Peace history.
- The social dynamics of conflict and peace; minorities, underrepresented groups;
- Theories and techniques for resolving disputes;
- Resilience, conflict resolution, and change;
- Armed actors from both states and non-state organisations, global crime, extremism, uprooting, and migration;
- Elections after conflicts, democratisation, good government, and growth;
- Building of states, nations, identities, and the citizenship issue;
- Justice, peace, and reconciliation throughout transition;
- The financial and economic aspects of peacekeeping, peace support, and conflict operations;
- Regionalism, regional economic communities (RECs), and peace;
- UN-AU-REC Partnerships and Architectures for Peacebuilding;
- Technology, digital media, conflict and peace;
- Cultures, media, and (peace) art;
- Youth, gender, and peacebuilding;
- politics involving water, violence, and peace;
- Movements for Peace
- Mass atrocity prevention, public health, COVID-19, conflict resolution, and international development
Eligibility
- All applicants must be citizens of Africa who are presently resident in an African nation. Academics from Africa as well as policy analysts and practitioners are eligible to enter this competition.
- Academic applicants must have a PhD that was earned no earlier than January 2014 and hold a faculty or research position at an African institution or research organisation.
- The cases of applicants who have not received their PhDs before February 11, 2024, will not be given priority for academic eligibility.
- Policy analysts and practitioners must be based in Africa and work for a regional or sub-regional institution, a government agency, a non-governmental organisation, a media outlet, or a civil society organisation.
- They must also have at least a master’s degree from before January 2019 and at least five years of experience working on research projects and conducting actual work related to peacebuilding on the continent.
Benefits
- What Are The Benefits Of Individual Research Fellowships Through The African Peacebuilding Network?
- A maximum of $15,000 will be given to each winner.
- Recipients are required to attend two mandatory seminars hosted by the APN during the fellowship duration.
- These workshops will give participants the chance to improve their research methods, designs, and focuses; present their findings; consider how to make their work more accessible to various constituencies involved in peacebuilding through publications and other means; network; and establish positive working relationships with other fellows, senior academics, and practitioner facilitators.
- The APN’s Working Paper and Policy Briefing Note series, as well as the program’s online discussion boards and social media channels (Kujenga Amani, Facebook, and Twitter), all urge fellows to contribute.
How to Apply for Individual Research Fellowships from the African Peacebuilding Network:
Through our Online Open Water site, all applications must be submitted.
REQUIREMENTS
- Application Form Completed Research Proposal & Bibliography
- forthcoming publication(s)
- Proposed Research Timeline Current CV
- Budget proposed for research
- Two Letters of Reference
- Language testing, if necessary
- Please get in touch with APN staff at apn@ssrc.org or via phone at (+1) 718-517-3669 if you have any problems accessing the online portal.
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