Application Deadline: All materials must be submitted no later than 5:00pm (EST) on January 20, 2017.
Eligible Countries: All African countries
About the Award: A core component of the African Peacebuilding Network, the research grants 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 and research centers of excellence in Africa and around the world. Grant recipients will produce research-based knowledge that is relevant to, and has a significant impact on, peacebuilding policy and practice on the continent. For its part, the African Peacebuilding Network will work toward inserting the evidence-based knowledge that this group produces into regional and global debates and policies focusing on peacebuilding.
Support is available for research and analysis on issues such as the following:
- Root causes of conflict, conflict prevention and transformation
- State and non-state armed actors, transnational crime, extremism and emerging trajectories of 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 peace
- Economic and financial dimensions of conflict, peacekeeping and peace support operations
- UN-AU-REC cooperation and Peace Support Operations
- Digital media, technology and peace
- Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and peacebuilding
- Gender and peacebuilding
- Health, post-conflict development, peace and security
- Prevention of mass atrocities
Type: Research Grants
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 obtained after January 2001.
- 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 a Master’s degree obtained before January 2012, with at least five years of proven research and work experience in peacebuilding-related activities on the continent.
- Women are strongly encouraged to apply
Selection Criteria: The APN is interested in innovative field-based projects that demonstrate strong potential for high-quality research and analysis, which in turn can inform practical action on peacebuilding and/or facilitate interregional collaboration and networking among African researchers and practitioners.
Proposals should clearly describe research objectives and significance, with alignment between research design/method and research questions and goals. Proposals should also demonstrate knowledge of the research subject and relevant literature, and address the feasibility of proposed research activities, including a time frame for project completion. Applicants should also discuss the likely relevance of the proposed research to existing knowledge on peacebuilding practice and policy. We strongly encourage the inclusion of a brief, but realistic budget outline (keeping within the allotted amount for the grant), to fit appropriately within a six-month project and the page limit required.
Number of Awardees: Up to fifteen (15) individual grants of a maximum of $15,000 will be awarded.
Value of Research: $15,000
Duration of Research: Grants are awarded on a competitive, peer-reviewed basis and are intended to support six months of field-based research, from June 2017 to December 2017.
How to Apply:
- Completed application form
- Completed proposal & bibliography
- Two reference letters
- Language evaluation(s) (if required)
- Updated CV
All applications must be uploaded through the online portal.
Award Provider: Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
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