Kroc Institute Visiting Research Fellows Program 2026-2027 (up to $30,000) – YOA

Deadline: January 31, 2026

Applications are open for the Kroc Institute Visiting Research Fellows Program 2026-2027. Each yr, the Kroc Institute’s Visiting Research Fellows Program brings excellent students targeted on peace analysis to the University of Notre Dame for a semester or a full tutorial yr.

Fellowships are provided to students with substantial analysis expertise who will join their analysis to ongoing Kroc Institute analysis initiatives. For the 2026-27 tutorial yr, they invite analysis proposals that concentrate on a number of of the next themes:

• Intersection of Gender, Race, Class and Peacebuilding: They are concerned about interdisciplinary approaches and qualitative, participatory, and/or feminist methodologies. Thematically, they’re concerned about questions of intersectionality in relation to identification, energy, illustration, and direct and structural violence.
• International Mediation: They are concerned about worldwide mediation, preventive diplomacy, and nationwide dialogue as methods for stopping and ending excessive depth battle.
• Peace Accords Matrix (PAM): They have an interest within the design and implementation of peace accords, with particular consideration to inclusive peace processes that contain civil society, transitional justice, and nation contexts presently negotiating or implementing a peace accord.
• Sustainability, Climate Change, and Peace: They are concerned about modern, interdisciplinary approaches that discover the connection between peace and sustainability, and/or environmental peacebuilding in weak areas, with focus areas together with however not restricted to unlawful mining, deforestation, meals safety, and livelihoods. The fellow could have an OPPORTUNITY to work together with the broader cohort of sustainability fellows spearheaded by Notre Dame’s Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative.

Benefits

• Visiting fellows will obtain a stipend of $30,000 per semester. Housing is offered in furnished Institute flats for gratis. Fellows have library and web entry and doc retrieval companies.

Eligibility

• Applicants will need to have accomplished a doctoral, or equal, diploma.
• If you’re presently enrolled in a Ph.D. program, you could have accomplished your doctoral diploma earlier than the start of the fellowship. If you might have beforehand been a Kroc Visiting Research Fellow, wait seven years earlier than making use of once more.

Application

A whole application consists of:

• A canopy letter (now not than 2 pages) that signifies whether or not you’re making use of for one semester or two, and that clearly identifies the sphere to which you’re making use of (Intersection of Gender, Race, Class and Peacebuilding; International Mediation; Peace Accords Matrix [PAM]; or Sustainability, Climate Change, and Peace).
• A analysis venture proposal (most 10 pages double-spaced, together with bibliography) that concisely describes the fundamental components of the analysis venture (sources, knowledge, methodology, and evaluation), a timetable, and anticipated merchandise. The bibliography ought to embrace citations related to your proposed analysis.
• An up-to-date Curriculum Vitae.
• Two confidential letters of advice.

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For extra info, go to Kroc Institute Visiting Research Fellows Program.