Social Science Research Council (SSRC) 2024 African Peacebuilding Network: Individual Research Fellowships: (Deadline 11 February, 2024)

The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) invites research fellowship applications from African scholars, researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners working on conflict and peacebuilding issues at universities and research institutions; or regional, governmental, and nongovernmental agencies or organizations based in Africa.

About the Individual Research Fellowships Program

A core component of the APN, the Individual Research Fellowship (IRF) program is a vehicle for enhancing the quality and visibility of independent African peacebuilding research both regionally and globally, while making peacebuilding knowledge accessible to key policymakers, practitioners, 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 peacebuilding scholarship, policy, and practice on the continent. For its part, the APN works toward inserting the evidence-based knowledge that fellowship award recipients produce into regional and global debates, practices, and policies focusing on peacebuilding. The program also strives to build a highly visible and active network of African scholars and practitioners capable of projecting African perspectives and voices onto global peacebuilding discourses, knowledge, and practices.

About Social Science Research Council (SSRC )

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an independent, international, nonprofit organization founded in 1923. It fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of social scientists, deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines, and mobilizes necessary knowledge on important public issues. In 1923, visionary members of the American Economic Association, the American Sociological Association, the American Political Science Association, and the American Statistical Association came together to found the Social Science Research Council, a groundbreaking organizat..

SSRC African Peacebuilding Network: Individual Research Fellowships

• Type Fellowship
• Organisation Social Science Research Council (SSRC )
• Country to study–
• School to study–
• Course to study Not specified
• State of Origin
• Gender Men and Women
• Application Deadline 11 February, 2024

Aim and Benefits of SSRC African Peacebuilding Network: Individual Research Fellowships

Fellowships are awarded on a competitive, peer-reviewed basis and are intended to support six months of field-based research, from June 2024 to December 2024. Up to seventeen (17) individual fellowships of a maximum of $15,000 each will be awarded. Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

During the fellowship period, recipients are required to participate in two mandatory workshops organized by the APN. These workshops will provide opportunities to refine recipients’ research designs, focus and methods; present findings; explore ways to make their work more accessible through publications and other means to multiple peacebuilding constituencies; networking, and developing constructive working relationships with other fellows, senior academic, and practitioner facilitators.

Fellows are also strongly encouraged to contribute to the APN’s Working Paper and Policy Briefing Note series, as well as to the program’s digital forums and social media platforms (Kujenga Amani, Facebook, and Twitter).

Requirements for SSRC African Peacebuilding Network: Individual Research Fellowships Qualification

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 who are academics must hold a faculty or research position at an African university or research organization, and have a PhD obtained no earlier than January 2013. Applicants who have not been awarded their PhDs by February 11, 2024 will not have their cases prioritized to be eligible as academics.

Applicants who are 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 2019, with at least five years of proven research and work experience in peacebuilding-related activities on the continent.

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

• Causes, drivers, actors, and trajectories of violent conflict;
• Natural resource conflict: community, national and regional dimensions
• Geopolitics and histories of conflict, conflict mediation and peace;
• Minorities, under-represented groups, and the social dynamics of conflict and peace;
• Climate Change, Energy Transitions, Conflict and Peace
• Climate change adaptation and mitigation practices and peace
• Religion and peace
• Resilience, conflict prevention and transformation;
• State and non-state armed actors, transnational crime, extremism, displacement, and migration;
• Post-conflict elections, democratization, governance, and development;
• Statebuilding, nation-building, identities, and the citizenship question;
• Transitional justice, reconciliation, and peace;
• The economic and financial dimensions of peace support operations and post-conflict reconstruction;
• Regional Economic Communities (RECs), regionalism and peace;
• UN-AU-REC Partnerships and Peacebuilding Architectures ;
• Media, digital technology, AI, war, and peacebuilding;
• Cultures, media, and art(s) of peace;
• Women, youth, and peacebuilding;
• Water politics, conflict, and peace;
• Theater, Music, and Peace
• Human mobilities, insecurities and peace
• Peace Education and African Literatures
• Prevention of mass atrocities; and
• Diseases, Politics and Peace

Documents Required for Application

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

Application Deadline

February 11, 2024

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Social Science Research Council (SSRC ) on ssrc.secure-platform.com to applyAll applications must be uploaded through our Online Open Water portal.

For more details visit: Official link.