The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) invites research grant applications from African researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners working on conflict and peacebuilding issues at universities and research institutions or regional governmental and nongovernmental organizations in Africa.
Support is available for research and analysis on issues such as the following:
- Root causes of conflict and conflict prevention, mediation, management, resolution, and transformation
- Environmental change and conflict
- Post-conflict elections, democratization, and governance
- The relationship between peacebuilding and state building, including state-society relations and state reconstruction
- Transitional justice, reconciliation, and human rights
- Economic and financial dimensions of conflict, peacekeeping, and peace support operations
- Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR)
- Security sector reform (SSR)
- Media, civil society, and peace
- Peace partnerships involving the UN, the AU, Regional Economic Communities (RECs), and civil society
- Gender and peacebuilding
- Peace education and social change
Grants are awarded on a competitive, peer-reviewed basis and are intended to support six months of field-based research, from May to November 2014. Up to ten individual grants of a maximum of $15,000 will be awarded.
Eligibility
All applicants must be African citizens currently residing in an African country.
Academic applicants must hold a faculty or research position at an African university or research organization and have a PhD.
Policy analysts and practitioner applicants must be based in Africa at a regional or subregional institution, a government agency, or a nongovernmental, media, or civil society organization and have at least an MA with no less than five years of research-related or work experience.
Deadline for Applications
Applications are due by 9 pm EST, February 1, 2014.
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