SSRC FELLOWSHIPS ON CONFLICT, PEACE, AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS

The Fellowships on Conflict, Peace, and Social Transformations are designed to advance training and innovative research on underlying causes and conditions of conflict and insecurity. The fellowships will be awarded to scholars, doctoral students and practitioners (such as nongovernmental and multilateral organization professionals, journalists, lawyers, activists and other professionals).

Applicants should be currently working on issues bearing on security such as human rights, gender inequality, religious revivalism, unequal access to goods and services, military affairs, weapons proliferation and arms control, peace-building, environmental sustainability, economic inequality, migration, food supply, global finance, ethnicity or nationalism. Through these fellowships the SSRC seeks to nurture innovative research and collaboration across geographic regions and between the worlds of academics and practitioners.

The fellowships will be for a period of 1-2 years.

2002 Competition Deadline: December 1, 2001.

Further information or answers to questions on the Fellowship Program and the grants for doctoral students, scholars and practitioners can be obtained from the program staff at gsc@ssrc.org.

More about the Program Global Security and Cooperation

The Program on Global Security and Cooperation (GSC) promotes the production, integration and dissemination of the new knowledge needed to understand and meet the security challenges of the 21st century. Increased global awareness of certain trends, some long-standing, some emergent following the end of the cold war, is not always matched by a systematic understanding of their causes and implications. As a result, the Program underscores the need to stimulate and foster new knowledge and practices.

Some of these trends include:

• The proliferation of non-state and extra-territorial actors, some peaceful and some violent in their aims, and their growing relevance to global security;
• The recurrence of brutal civil wars with multiple causes;
• The possibilities raised by transnational social movements that have had some success in increasing global awareness of human rights violations, encouraging nations to reduce military expenditures and production (e.g., land mines) and seeking to promote a culture of human security that highlights tolerance, negotiation and non-violence;
• Persistent questions regarding the relevance of old systems of security, including collective security regimes, nuclear deterrence and heavily militarized nations; and
• Issues that transcend, bypass or disrupt traditional state interests (and categories of international relations research), such as small arms flows, human rights, migrations, ethnic conflict, global criminal networks, economic globalization, religious movements and environmental concerns.

The Program has keen interest in the way such matters are explored, and how results of useful research are introduced to other institutions, researchers, practitioners and the public arena. We have particular concern for the gulf that divides scholars from practitioners in the security field, and the difficulties of disseminating knowledge and analytic perspectives> across different kinds of organizations, regions and cultures.

The GSC program seeks to nurture innovative research and collaboration across world regions and between the worlds of academics and practitioners.

To foster collaboration on global security issues, we offer fellowships and grants for international and cross-institutional training and research that will facilitate understanding of the causes of and lessons from international conflict and insecurity. To develop dialogue that will lead to a global security studies field, we convene Fellows' conferences, mount networking activities and provide platforms for joint work that bring together scholars and practitioners working on a diverse array of security issues. To ensure timely and durable use of this new knowledge, we organize policy and media workshops, translate and publish the research and analysis produced in the program and connect scholars to other academic, practitioner and public audiences.