SSRC African Peace Building Network Individual Research Fellowships 2020 (over $15,000)

About the African Peace Building Network Individual Research Fellowships

A core component of the APN, the Individual Research Fellowships program is a vehicle for enhancing the quality and visibility of independent African peace-building research both regionally and globally, while making peace-building knowledge accessible to key policymakers and research centers of excellence in Africa and around the world.

Fellowship recipients produce research-based knowledge that is relevant to, and has a significant impact on, peace-building scholarship, policy, and practice on the continent. For its part, the APN works toward inserting the evidence-based knowledge that grant recipients produce into regional and global debates and policies focusing on peace building.

Support is available for research and analysis on the following issues:

• Root causes of, and emerging trajectories of violent conflict;
• Natural Resource Conflict;
• Geographies and histories of conflict and peace;
• Theory and practice of conflict mediation;
• Resilience, conflict prevention and transformation;
• State and non-state armed actors, transnational crime, extremism, displacement and migration;
• Post-conflict elections, democratization, governance and economic reconstruction;
• State-building, including state-society relations and state reconstruction;
• Transitional justice, reconciliation, and peace;
• The economic and financial dimensions of conflict, peacekeeping, and peace support operations;
• Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and peace-building;
• UN-AU-REC Partnerships and Peace Support Operations;
• Digital media, technology, and peace;
• Cultures, media, and art(s) of peace;
• Gender, youth and peace-building;
• Water conflict and peace;
• Health, post-conflict development, peace, and security; and
• Prevention of mass atrocities.

Fellowship

• Up to sixteen (16) individual fellowships of a maximum of $15,000 each will be awarded.

Who is Eligible for the African Peace Building Network Individual Research Fellowships?

• All applicants must be African citizens currently residing in an African country. This competition is open to African academics, as well as policy analysts and practitioners.
• Applicants applying as academics must hold a faculty or research position at an African university or research organization, and have a PhD obtained no earlier than January 2009.
• Applicants applying as policy analysts or practitioners must be based in Africa at a regional or sub regional institution; a government agency; or a nongovernmental, media, or civil society organization, and have at least a master’s degree obtained before January 2014, with at least five years of proven research and work experience in peace-building-related activities on the continent.
•  Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

How to Apply

All applications must be uploaded through the online portal.

The required documents include:

• Completed Application Form
• Research Proposal & Bibliography
• Current CV
• Proposed Research Timeline
• Proposed Research Budget
• Two Reference Letters
• Language Evaluation(s) (if required)

For more information, visit APN Individual Research Fellowships.