USIP Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program 2026 ($15,000 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: March 20, 2025

Applications are open for the Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program 2026. The USIP Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Competition, in help of Defense Security Cooperation University (DSCU) and USIP priorities, seeks purposes from senior consultants who will advance thought management and scholarly analysis on the intersection of safety cooperation and battle prevention. Priority shall be given to analysis proposals which intently align with the missions of each U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) and DSCU.

While a lot of the general public educational and coverage debate round safety cooperation tends to concentrate on U.S. help applications to develop associate capability, safety cooperation is a wider time period that features all kinds of actions with allies and companions together with: personnel exchanges, mixed workout routines and coaching, education schemes, worldwide armaments cooperation, humanitarian help and catastrophe aid, coaching and equipping, protection institutional capability constructing, and girls, peace, and safety applications.

Research Focus

Connecting Security Cooperation with Peace and Stability: How can safety cooperation applications and actions play an energetic position in selling regional stability, stopping conflicts that threaten the pursuits of the United States, decreasing the dangers of U.S. involvement in conflicts overseas and serving to set up protected and safe communities throughout U.S. associate nations?

They welcome proposals that contribute to constructing the data base round this theme.

Fellowship

• USIP expects to award one fellowship associated to the thematic questions described above. The fellowship is for an eight-month interval, January 2026 by means of August 2026, at USIP headquarters in Washington, D.C. The fellowship supply can’t be deferred.
• The fellow will obtain a month-to-month stipend of $15,000. The fellowship doesn’t cowl housing prices nor medical health insurance. USIP will cowl one spherical-journey airfare to Washington, D.C. The fellowship, supported by the DSCU Young Institute, is funded by means of an Economy Act Support Agreement between DSCU and USIP. This fellowship is contingent upon the provision of funding in the course of the related fiscal yr.

Eligibility

• Open to senior consultants who’ve a background in safety cooperation and/or international or worldwide partnerships and notable expertise in analysis, apply, and/or coverage and technique.
• Applicants ought to have intensive expertise in analysis, coverage and/or apply, and a powerful file of scholarship associated to safety cooperation.
• Applicants shall be chosen primarily based on their potential to make authentic contributions to the sector. USIP values qualitative, quantitative, and participatory analysis approaches.

Application

Applications that don’t embody all the next gadgets is not going to be thought-about.

• Research Application: All purposes and paperwork associated to this competitors should be submitted on-line by means of the FLUXX portal.
• Academic CV: Please present a CV of not more than 5 pages
• Recommendation Letter: A letter of advice should be included as part of your application.
• All application supplies should be in English.

For extra info, go to Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship.