Deadline: February 11, 2024
Applications are open for the African Peacebuilding Network Individual Research Fellowships 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.
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.
Fellowship
- Up to seventeen (17) individual fellowships of a maximum of $15,000 each will be awarded.
Eligibility
- 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.
Application
All applicants will be required to submit the following:
- Completed online application form and questions;
- a Curriculum Vitae (CV);
- a proposed budget;
- a proposed timeline;
- a copy of applicant’s PhD degree (for academics) and master’s degree (for practitioners); and,
- Fellowship specific documents:
- Proposal Fellowship applicants should upload their draft dissertation proposal.
- Research Fellowship applicants should upload their approved dissertation proposal and approved research instrument(s): questionnaire, interview schedule, observation schedule, etc.
- Completion Fellowship applicants should upload a copy of their approved dissertation proposal, as well as their latest draft dissertation.
Application material must be submitted in English. In cases where academic degrees are in a language other than English, a translation must be uploaded with the degree in a collated, continuous document.
For more information, visit APN Individual Research Fellowships.
