[Commlist] Call for IAMCR Peace Fellowships

      Call for IAMCR Peace Fellowships

IAMCR calls for candidates for the IAMCR peace fellowships. The deadline 
for application is *15 December 2023*.

Established during the Cold War by researchers from East and West, IAMCR 
has a long history of promoting academic collaboration and dialogue in 
situations where governments or communities see each other as unfriendly 
adversaries at best, and enemies at worst.

As an academic association, the creation of *collaborative contact 
zones* is particularly important, allowing individual scholars from 
‘both sides’ to work together in the production of knowledge. Here, the 
themes that structure these collaborations need to be kept open, not 
exclusively focussing on the antagonistic conflict itself, and its 
causes and/or remedies. Collaborative contact zones often function best 
when the conflict is not the theme, given the many sensitivities, 
restrictions and even risks that might burden collaborations 
thematically focussed on the conflict.

IAMCR wants to support the creation of collaborative contact zones, with 
the modest means at its disposal. By establishing *IAMCR peace 
fellowships*, IAMCR will facilitate the collaboration of pairs of 
individual scholars, who are based in, or strongly connected to, two 
regions or communities that are currently engaged, or recently have been 
engaged, in an antagonistic conflict. An *IAMCR peace fellowship* will 
last 2 years, in order to provide sufficient time for collaboration, and 
IAMCR will select up to two pairs of peace fellows per year. After four 
years, IAMCR’s Executive Board will evaluate the project and decide on 
its continuation.


      Requirements and procedures

IAMCR will grant selected candidates the title of IAMCR peace fellows 
for two years.

Furthermore, IAMCR will provide support to IAMCR peace fellows in the 
following ways:

  * A travel grant of 1500 USD, for both scholars, to attend one (1)
    main IAMCR conference, in order to present their collaborative work.
    When peace fellows are demonstrably in the impossibility to travel
    to IAMCR conferences, the funds can be used, pending IAMCR approval,
    for a different channel of communication to the IAMCR community.
  * An individual membership for both scholars, for two years.
  * Opportunities to present their work at online or face-to-face IAMCR
    fora, to be decided in consultation with both scholars.

Candidates are invited to submit a joint proposal for academic 
collaboration on a particular theme. This joint proposal should include 
the following elements:

  * A description of the specific, clearly-demarcated and focussed
    academic *theme* of the collaboration between the two scholars (max.
    1000 words);
  * A description of the process of the planned collaboration (max. 500
    words);
  * A description of the planned academic outputs (expected minimum of
    one peer-reviewed academic publication) and other outputs (max. 500
    words);
  * A description of: (1) the *relationship* of the scholars to each
    other; (2) the *relationship* of the scholars with the regions or
    communities in antagonistic conflict (e.g., being based there,
    having a strong engagement with the region or community), and (3)
    the nature of the antagonistic conflict itself (max. 500 words);
  * A brief note describing any particular security needs of one or both
    scholars, if there are any (e.g., in relation to required
    discreteness or even anonymity) (max. 500 words);
  * The *CV*s of both scholars.

The submission deadline is *15 December 2023*.

For more information and to access the application form see 
https://iamcr.org/awards/peace-fellowships

If you have any questions about the IAMCR Peace Fellowships contact 
Mazlum Kemal Dağdelen <mailto:(mazlum /at/ iamcr.org)>.

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