African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics (APDD) Individual Research Fellowships 2027 – YOA

Deadline: January 15, 2027

Applications are open for the African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics (APDD) Individual Research Fellowships 2027. Since its inception in 2012, the Individual Research Fellowship (IRF) has served as a car for enhancing the standard and visibility of unbiased African peacebuilding analysis each regionally and globally, whereas making peacebuilding data accessible to key policymakers, practitioners and analysis facilities of excellence in Africa and all over the world.

The APDD program of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) invites purposes from African researchers, coverage analysts, and practitioners engaged on battle and peacebuilding points at universities and analysis establishments or regional, governmental, and nongovernmental businesses based mostly in Africa.

Program Components

Through the Individual Research Fellowship, recipients can count on the next:

• Thought Leadership: Fellows commit to 6 (6) months of area-based mostly analysis, and three (3) months of research, and writing for a complete of 9 (9) months, from July 2026 to March 2027. Fellows produce analysis-based mostly data that’s related to, and has a big impression on, peacebuilding scholarship, coverage, and observe on the continent whereas inserting proof-based mostly data into regional and international debates and insurance policies specializing in peacebuilding.
• Workshops: Fellows will take part in two obligatory APDD workshops occurring in July and January throughout completely different areas of Africa. These workshops will present alternatives to refine recipients’ analysis designs, focus and strategies; current findings; discover methods to make their work extra accessible by publications and different means to a number of peacebuilding constituencies; community, and develop constructive working relationships with different fellows, senior lecturers, practitioners, and facilitators.
• African Scholarship and Knowledge Production
  • Fellows will contribute to the APDD’s Working Paper sequence and African Peacebuilding Policy Review and Analysis, in addition to to this system’s digital boards and social media platforms (Kujenga Amani, Facebook, and X).
  • Fellows could contribute to worldwide peer-reviewed journals, books, articles/essays, blogs, options and op-ed articles, and/or podcasts.
  • Fellows will achieve new data and abilities to advance their careers as lecturers or practitioners of their chosen fields.
• Fostering Community, Professional Development and Networking
  • Fellows are part of a community of extremely seen and energetic African students and practitioners able to voicing African views on international discourses, in addition to data and practices of peacebuilding.
  • Fellows will obtain mentorship from extremely skilled senior students within the area, with alternatives for peer-to-peer studying and collaboration.

Benefits

• In 2026, as much as 9 (9) particular person fellowships will probably be awarded at a most of $12,000 every. 

Eligibility

• All candidates have to be African residents presently residing in an African nation. This competitors is open to African lecturers, in addition to coverage analysts and practitioners. 
• Applicants who’re lecturers should maintain a full-time college or analysis place at an African college or analysis group, and have a PhD obtained no sooner than January 2016. Applicants who haven’t been awarded their PhDs by June 2026 is not going to have their circumstances prioritized to be eligible as lecturers.
• Applicants who’re coverage analysts or practitioners have to be based mostly in Africa at a regional or sub-regional establishment; a authorities company; or a nongovernmental, media, or civil society group, and have at the least a grasp’s diploma obtained earlier than January 2021 with at the least 5 years of confirmed analysis and work expertise in peacebuilding-associated actions on the continent.

Aplication

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For extra data, go to Individual Research Fellowships.