USIP-DSCU Summer Scholar Fellowship Program 2025 ($15,000 stipend)

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Application Deadline:  January 8, 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 USIP-DSCU Summer Scholar Fellowship Program. The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and the Defense Security Cooperation University (DSCU) are proud to announce the inaugural Summer Scholar Fellowship Program. USIP and DSCU search purposes from Ph.D. candidates with coverage related analysis that can deepen the academicians’ and coverage makers’ understanding about safety cooperation. The Fellowship goals to provide analysis, evaluation, and classes realized that increase the mental foundations of safety cooperation. The fellowship will prioritize analysis proposals which carefully align with the missions of each USIP and DSCU. International purposes are welcome.

USIP-DSCU will fund as much as 4 Summer Scholars for a three-month, non-residential fellowship to conduct analysis in the summertime 2025. USIP will companion with DSCU and the Young Institute to supply the fellowship to doctoral college students conducting evidence-based and policy-relevant analysis on subjects associated to safety cooperation. Summer Scholars have to be present Ph.D. candidates in good standing with their college and should have already acquired committee approval for his or her dissertation on the time of the applying.

USIP and DSCU are looking for candidates which can be endeavor doctoral analysis that carefully aligns with the precedence analysis areas for this request for purposes:

• Connecting Security Cooperation with Peace and Stability: How can safety cooperation (together with arms transfers and navy coaching) play an energetic position in establishing a protected and safe surroundings as the primary part of peacebuilding?
• Deepening Global Partnerships: How can we design extra complete Security Cooperation relationships that assist lasting world partnerships and good governance, based mostly on widespread values, safety wants, and extra contextually knowledgeable assessments of our companions’ menace panorama and future sustainability necessities?
• Whole-of-Society and Whole of Government Strategies in Civil-Military Relations: Can an enhanced position of civil society in informing the planning and design of Security Cooperation applications in our companion and allied nations enhance safety cooperation outcomes?
• Security Cooperation by means of Regional and International Organizations: How can safety cooperation promote the operability and stabilizing capability of regional and worldwide organizations?
• Security Cooperation’s position in addressing root causes of instability: How can safety cooperation conceptualize, securitize, and deal with essentially the most related components that straight impression fragility and instability past the switch of navy capabilities and gear, and the way can we be certain that safety cooperation itself doesn’t contribute to instability?
• Building the foundations of efficient integrative deterrence with companions and allies (Possibly a US-centered perspective): How can we construct companion protection planning and sustainment concerns right into a extra holistic US protection technique that extra precisely assesses readiness for present and future threats, together with capability constructing within the new strategic surroundings?

Benefits

• Summer Scholars will obtain stipends of as much as $15,000 paid on to the person in three tranches, contingent on the submission of month-to-month progress stories.

Application Process

Applications which don’t embrace the entire following gadgets won’t be thought-about.

• Research Application: All purposes and paperwork associated to this competitors have to be submitted on-line by means of the FLUXX portal.
• Academic CV: Please present a CV of not more than three pages and please spotlight any accomplished initiatives of an identical scope.
• Recommendation Letter: A letter of advice out of your dissertation advisor have to be included as a part of your utility.
• All submissions must be in English.

Applying for the Summer Scholar Fellowship competitors is a two-step course of.

REGISTRATION: All candidates should have registered for this competitors within the FLUXX portal even in case you have registered for an additional USIP competitors. A brand new registration will should be accomplished in full.

APPLICATION: After finishing the registration, candidates should put together and submit a whole utility. USIP doesn’t present standing updates on submitted purposes at any time.

Application Timeline

• Registration opens: Tuesday, November 12, 2024
• Registration closes: Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 4pm EST
• Application deadline: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 4pm EST
• Recommendation letter deadline: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 4pm EST

For More Information:

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