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Fellowships and Grant Opportunties in Peace StudiesThere are many opportunities for college graduates, graduate students,and faculty to receive financial support for internships, independent research, and advanced study in the field of peace and security studies. Below is a list of some sources of funding. (Please contact individual funders for the most current information and application procedures.) Academic Council on the United Nations
System (ACUNS) A dissertation award ($10,000) is awarded annually for social scientists or the equivalent for legal scholars. The applicant's focus of study need not be limited to the fields of political science or international law. Crucial to the consideration of any proposal will be a direct link to the UN system. Deadline for applications is February 7. American Association for the Advancement
of Science The AAAS offers one-year fellowships to post-doctoral and mid-career scientists, engineers, and other scholars and professionals with some background in arms control or national security issues and with demonstrated proficiency in some area of engineering, science, or science-related professions. Stipends range in the area of $30,000. American Association
of University Women Educational Foundation The Educational Foundation provides dissertation, post-doctoral, and summer faculty fellowships for work on any subject. Their goal is to improve opportunities for high quality women scholars to succeed in their fields. There is usually a November deadline. Arizona Honors Academy (AHA) AHA offers intensive Honors Seminars for undergraduates in U.S. national security policy as well as a $2000 essay contest. AHA absorbs a portion of the expenses required to attend the three-week seminar held in June. In addition, the Academy offers resources and support for Experts in Residence to visiting scholars. Brookings Institution Resident fellowships are awarded to doctoral candidates whose dissertation topics are related to public policy issues of interest to the institution. Currently, these issues focus on security policy and international economic concerns. Deadline December 15. Canadian Consortium on Human Security The fellowship program encourages projects that address conflict prevention, humanitarian and peace support, secure governance and accountability issues, as well as international norms and institutions that reflect a human security agenda. Doctoral dissertation research fellowships are available to doctoral candidates at Canadian universities who have completed their coursework and have an approved dissertation proposal that the fellowship is up. Post-doctoral fellowships are available to doctoral candidates ( (including LLM) who have begun their degrees since July 1, 2002 or anticipate receipt of their degree during the academic year. Non academic fellowships are available to individuals working in areas relevant to the security but outside the university community. Applications are sought from practitioners, government or academia who have worked with international organizations, NGO's, and/or the media in human security-related programs. Radcliffe Institute
Fellowship Research topics by authors, poets, filmmakers, and visual artists are accepted. Groups and individuals with research especially related to cosmology and theoretical astrophysics, cultural citizenship, and immigration are encouraged to apply. Stipends are funded up to $50,000 for one year with additional funds for project expenses. Fellows receive office or studio space and access to libraries and other resources of Harvard University. Residence in the Boston area and participation in the Institute community are required during the fellowship year, which extends from September 8, 2003, through June 14, 2004. Deadline October 1. Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace The Junior Fellows Program is designed to give work experience to students with and interest in international affairs. Each year the Endowment offers up to eleven one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors. The fellowship includes work as an editorial assistant for Foreign Policy magazine or work as research assistants to the Endowments' associates. Most of the fellowships begin on June 1 and include salary and benefits. The application process involves a faculty nomination, significant coursework in international politics or economics, a personal interview and a 5 page essay. Center for International Security and Arms Control The center offers pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships. The purpose of the program is to contribute to training in the fields of international security, defense planning, and arms control.Topics include: the commercialization of national defense technologies, peacekeeping, the role of non-lethal weapons and other military technologies in preventing conflict. Fellowships are available to Ph.D. candidates who have made substantial progress toward the completion of their dissertation and to scholars with Ph.D. or equivalent degrees from the United States and abroad. The Center invites applications from a broad range of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, history, law, political science, sociology, medicine, and the natural and physical sciences. The Center also seeks applications from military officers or civilian members of the U.S. government, members of military or diplomatic services from other countries, and journalists interested in arms control and international security issues. Applications from women and minorities are encouraged. ellowship award varies. Deadline is February 1. Center for International Studies University of Missouri--St. Louis Center for Science and International
Affairs The Center offers pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships in science and international affairs. Focuses vary, but include international security, regional security, internal and ethnic conflict, the structure of the U.S. military establishment and nuclear weapons complex, international proliferation of weapons and prospects for control, arms control and confidence building measures, and more.. BCSIA offers ten-month stipends of $34,000 to postdoctoral research fellows and $20,000 to predoctoral research fellows, with health insurance. Deadline January 21. Anne Armstrong
Leadership Awards The award is given to undergraduates who demonstrate strong potential for leadership in the field of international affairs. $3,000 is given twice a year to enable undergraduate recipients to intern full time at CSIS. Deadlines dependent on season. DAAD Graduate Scholarships
for Study and/or Research in Germany German Chancellor
Scholarship Program William T. Grant Scholars Program 570 Lexington Ave., 18th Floor, New York, NY 10022-6837 Phone: 212.752.0071 Fax: 212.752.1398 info@wtgrantfdn.org Supports post-doctoral scholars whose work benefits young people 8-25. Candidates must be nominated by a supporting institution and must submit a five-year research plan. Four to six awards of 300,000 are given out. Eligiblity includes being a researcher at American and foreign nonprofit institutions. Priority areas for research are youth development; programs, policies, and institutions affecting young people; and adults' attitudes about and perceptions of young people, along with the consequences of those attitudes and perceptions. The Foundation is particularly interested in research that is interdisciplinary, examines young people in social, institutional, community, and cultural contexts, and addresses issues that are relevant to youth-related programs and policies. Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation The Foundation welcomes proposals from scholars in any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world. The Foundation awards research grants to individuals for $15,000 to $35,000 for up to two years. It also awards individual dissertation fellowship awards of $10,000 for one year. Applicants may be citizens of any country and studying at colleges or universities in any country. Deadline August 1. Ford Foundation International Affairs Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program applicants must be resident
nationals or residents Brazil, Chile, China, Egypt, Ghana, Guatemala, India,
Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria, Palestine, Peru, Philippines,
Russia, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Vietnam. Applicants must
demonstrate superior achievement in their undergraduate studies, hold a baccalaureate
degree and propose to pursue a post-baccalaureate degree. Research topics in
Asset Building and Community; Development, Education, Media, Arts and Culture;
and Peace and Social Justice. Deadlines vary. Hoover
Institute on War, Revolution and Peace Graduate students or recent graduates may apply for a fellowship to work in a human rights organization in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Fellowship duration is for one year and the award ranges from $6,000 to $16,000. The program stresses professional work exchanges, on site training programs, and study tours. Institute for International Education Graduate students or recent graduates may apply for a fellowship to work in a human rights organization in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Fellowship duration is for one year and the award ranges from $6,000 to $16,000. The International Peace Research Association Foundation (IPRA) The International Peace Research Association invites applications for the Dorothy Marcus Senesh Fellowship in Peace and Development Studies for Third World women. It is available to Third World women who have been accepted into a graduate program, and whose graduate work will concentrate on issues related to the focus of IPRA. The award is made biennially. International Research & Exchanges
Board (IREX) Fellowships available for professionals and graduate students for social-science research in Europe, Eurasia, the Near East, and Asia. The organizations focus areas include higher education, independent media, internet development, and civil society. Luce Scholars Program The Program, open to seniors, graduate students, alumni from recent classes and junior faculty, places young scholars from a wide variety of intellectual fields in 10-month internships throughout Asia. Past assignments have included settings as diverse as an architect's office, a newspaper, a forestry project, a family planning center, a hospital and local government agencies. The program is aimed specifically at those with no prior experience in Asia. Nominees must be American citizens not yet 30 on September 1, 2003, who have earned at least a bachelor's degree or expect to receive one by September 1, and who are in good physical condition and emotional health. Applications are available at CIS, and prospective candidates must apply through CIS. John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The MacArthur Foundation provides research and writing grants to scholars at all levels to explore important themes in peace and international security. In particular, the Foundation encourages proposals which explore the implications for peace and cooperation of problems that have not previously been considered central to the study of international security, e.g. degradation of the environment, shifting patterns of economic and natural resources distribution, and the resurgence of ethnic, religious, and separatist movements. Grants range from $10,000-$60,000 for individual applications, $120,000 for two-person projects. Deadlines: February and August. The Mickey Leland
International Hunger Fellows Program The Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellowship is a two-year initiative that begins with a one-year field placement in countries throughout South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. Field placements include national and international non-governmental organizations, private commercial organizations, and bi-lateral and multi-lateral organizations. Fellows then spend a second year assisting with policy formulation in the headquarters of the organizations where they served during their field placements. Field and policy placements are coordinated so that timely, innovative information from the field translates into appropriate policies that address root causes of hunger. The Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows Program Each year about twenty participants are selected for this twelve-month program. Fellows are placed for six months with urban and rural community-based organizations all over the country involved in fighting hunger at the local level, such as food banks, community kitchens, and local advocacy agencies. They then move to Washington, DC to complete the year with six months of work at national organizations involved in the anti-hunger and poverty movement, including national advocacy organizations, think tanks, and federal agencies. Through this unique program, the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows Program develops hunger-fighting leaders with a deep understanding of hunger and poverty at both the local and national level that enables them to find innovative solutions and create the political will to end hunger. Monterey
Institute of International Studies (MIIS) The Center for Nonproliferation Studies offers a limited number of scholarships for graduate students entering master's degree programs in International Policy Studies or International Public Administration at the Monterey Institute. Students applying for the scholarship should be interested in pursuing a career in nonproliferation studies and will be required to concentrate in the field while at MIIS. The scholarships range from partial to full tuition awards and can be combined with a graduate assistantship at the Center. The Center also offers sabbatical support and postdoctoral fellowships. Fellows are expected to publish a significant work in the field of nuclear, biological, chemical or advanced conventional weapons proliferation; and to participate in the general research activities of the Center. Dissertation must be completed prior to arrival at the Center. Postdoctoral Fellows receive a salary of $32,000 plus medical benefits. Theodore
Lentz Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Peace and Conflict Resolution The Fellowship is offered to support scholarly research on peace and conflict resolution in the international arena, and in other settings of conflict and violence. Evidence of scholarly research capability is required. In addition to research, the fellows are expected to teach two courses during the academic year. Candidates must have completed their Ph.D. and the appointment award is $21,000 for one-year, with university benefits. University of Michigan The Program for International Peace and Security Research at the University of Michigan offers MacArthur Foundation Fellowships to graduate students interested in the field of international peace and security studies. Individuals applying to doctoral programs in any of the University's social science departments are eligible to apply. Graduate students designated as MacArthur scholars will be expected to participate in the program's special seminars and in research activities of its faculty-student research groups. Newly admitted MacArthur predoctoral scholars will be appointed for terms of two to four years and currently receive an annual stipend plus full tuition and fees. University of Notre Dame The Kroc Institute hosts Visiting Fellows who conduct research on the role of religion in contemporary conflicts and peacebuilding initiatives. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowships are open to senior and junior scholars in the humanities and social sciences, as well as religious leaders and peacebuilding practitioners, of any nationality. The fellowships will ordinarily be for one year. Stipends begin at $30,000 per year. Visiting Fellows will also be provided with an apartment, an office in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies, a computer, an email account, access to the internet, and photocopying, faxing and communication facilities. Visiting Fellows will also receive full privileges at the Hesburgh Library. Nuclear Age Peace Foundation The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation awards two annual scholarships in the amount of $2,500 each to provide support for minority students currently enrolled in undergraduate course work who can demonstrate both financial need and academic excellence. Information should be submitted by September. Ohio State University The center offers postdoctoral fellowships for research in international security studies. Possible areas of interest: U.S. defense and foreign policy, international conflict resolution, military history, civil-military relations, democratic citizenship education. John
M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies Each year the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies awards up to ten pre- and postdoctoral fellowships to talented scholars. These John M. Olin Fellowships in National Security are designed to promote basic research in the broad area of security and strategic affairs. Of particular interest is research into the causes and conduct of war, military strategy and history, defense policy and institutions, and the ways in which the United States and other societies can provide for their security in a dangerous world. Outstanding scholars in security affairs from the United States and elsewhere are eligible to apply for John M. Olin Fellowships. In awarding fellowships, preference is given to: (a) graduate students who have made progress on their dissertations and are likely to complete them during their fellowship; and (b) recent Ph.D. recipients. Program on Global Security & Cooperation The goal of the GSC fellowship program is to provide support to promising young scholars from around the world in order to generate new knowledge and theoretical insights to better understand the causes of and safeguard against threats to, human security. In particular, we seek to help bridge the gap between academic expertise and the knowledge held by practitioners in the many non-governmental, governmental and multilateral institutions that are involved with peace and security issues. We believe that new and more appropriate forms of collaboration between these two communities are vital for both understanding and ameliorating the varieties of threats to human security around the world. We are particularly interested in providing junior research scholars with the opportunity to gain new theoretical insights from the experience of immersing themselves in a practice-oriented or policy-oriented environment. The GSC Program awards eight dissertation fellowships annually in an international competition The Herbert
Scoville, Jr. Peace Fellowship Program The Herbert Scoville Peace Fellowship Program offers a stipend of $1,400 per month (plus travel expenses and medical insurance) for college graduates to spend up to six months in the Washington, D.C. area working for one of eighteen organizations concerned with disarmament, nuclear arms control, and peace. Social Science Research Council (SSRC) The SSRC offers two fellowship opportunities relevant to peace studies. In affiliation with the MacArthur Foundation, SSRC offers dissertation and post-doctoral fellowships for training and research on peace and security in a changing world. The dissertation fellowships provide a stipend of $13,500 per year to allow graduate students to conduct field research and training; the postdoctoral fellowships provide a stipend of up to $37,500 per year to pursues advanced training that will broaden their expertise in the field. (Deadline is usually December 1.) United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency The Fosters Visiting Scholars Program at ACDA allows college and university faculty to spend a year actively participating in the negotiation and implementation of arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament treaties and agreements. ACDA seeks scholars from a number of academic fields including physics, engineering, chemistry, biology, economics, political science, geology and mathematics. Successful applicants will be offered a full salary and benefits package as well as a daily stipend during their assignment. Deadlines are in March. United States Army Research Institute The Institute offers research grants to support research on a whole host of topics of interest to the military in the past. Request grant announcements, which will detail current interests. United States Institute of Peace The USIP offers a variety of fellowships open to citizens of any country, from a broad range of professional backgrounds. These fellowships are designed to enable outstanding professionals and scholars to undertake research and educational projects that will increase knowledge and spread awareness among the public and policymakers regarding the nature of international conflict and the full range of ways to deal with it peacefully. Each year, the USIP appoints a number of Distinguished Fellows, who are eminent professionals or scholars with an excellent potential for bringing an understanding of international peace into their field. Both awards entail residence at the USIP in Washington, D.C., and carry stipends commensurate with the applicants professional salary. In addition to these fellowships, USIP offers research grants to qualified scholars and organizations in the field. In addition, USIP selcts a number of graduate students to receive awards of $12,000 as Peace Scholars. For information, contact USIP Grants Program at address above. Winston Foundation For World Peace Undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in cooperative security, conflict resolution and disarmament are eligible for Winston Foundation fellowships. Fellows design their own projects, usually involving public education, media outreach, grassroots organizing, or another active approach to issues of cooperative security, nuclear arms control, conventional arms transfers, demilitarization, democracy building, conflict resolution, and the like. Applicants may be of any nationality and are expected to work full-time with a non-profit organization. A $300/week stipend is provided for the duration of the project, which lasts from 2-4 months. Women in International Security (WIIS) WIIS offers a one-year postdoctoral fellowship for policy-relevant research in the area of international security, broadly defined. Proposals related to the security dimensions of other issues such as human rights and democratization, refugee and migration issues, and international trade are also welcome. The WIIS Fellow is expected to participate actively in the ongoing WIIS program of activities (which stress the involvement of women in the international security field) and to produce a manuscript of publishable quality. All requirements for the Ph.D. must be completed at the time of appointment. Award is for $28,000 plus benefits and a small research budget. SELECTED READINGS Directory of Financial Aid for Women 1995-97, 1995. B. Kline Publications, PO Box 6578, Del Ray, FL 33482; 407-496-3316. Fellowships in International Affairs: A Guide to Opportunities in the United States and Abroad, 1994. Women in International Security. Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1800 30th Street, Boulder CO 80301. Foundation Grants to Individuals, 9th Ed., Victoria Hall, ed., 1995. A descriptive directory of grant sources, plus information on regional Foundation Centers and library collections. The Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003; 212-620-4230. Foundations in International Affairs: Search for Security, 3rd Ed., 1995. Bruce Seymore II & Mary Lord, eds. A resource for project grant money relating to international affairs. ACCESS, 1511 K Street NW, Suite 643, Washington, DC 20005; 202-783-6050. Peterson's Grants for Graduate and Post-Doctoral Studies, 1994. Describes more than 1400 grant and fellowship programs offering financial support to master's and doctoral students in all fields. $89.95, Peterson's Guides, P.O. Box 2123, Princeton, NJ 08543; 800-338-3282. Grants for International and Foreign Programs, Grants for Public Policy and Political Science, The Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003; 212-620-4230. (pending a catalogue in the mail) Grants: How to Find Out About Them and What to Do Next, Virginia P. White, 1975. $34.50, Plenum Press, New York; 212-620-8000. The International Studies Funding and Resources Book, 5th Ed., 1990. An extensive 550 page guide to resources in international education. $101.50, The Apex Press, 777 United Nations Plaza, Suite 3C, New York, NY 10017; 800-316-2739, 914-271-6500.
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