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Individual research grants. The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Research Council e

he Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is inviting African researchers, policy analysts and practitioners working on conflict and peacebuilding issues in universities and research institutes to submit applications for research grants; or regional agencies or organisations to submit applications.governmental and non-governmental government based in Africa.

An essential component of the APN, the Individual Research Fellowship (IRF) programme is a means of enhancing the quality and visibility of independent African peacebuilding research at regional and global levels, while making peacebuilding knowledge accessible to key policy-makers, practitioners and research centres of excellence in Africa and globally. Fellowship recipients produce research-based knowledge that is relevant and has a significant impact on peacebuilding scholarship, policy and practice on the continent.

For its part, the AFN strives to insert the evidence-based knowledge generated by Fellowship recipients into regional and global peacebuilding debates and policies. The programme also strives to create a highly visible and active network of African scholars and practitioners capable of projecting African perspectives and voices into global peacebuilding discourses, knowledge and practice.

Areas of intervention Individual research grants

Support is available for research and analysis on the following issues:

• Root causes and emerging trajectories of violent conflict;
• Conflict over natural resources ;
• Geopolitics and histories of conflict and peace ;
• Minorities, under-represented groups and the social dynamics of conflict and peace;
• Theories and practices of conflict mediation ;
• Resilience, conflict prevention and transformation ;
• Armed state and non-state actors, transnational crime, extremism, displacement and migration;
• Post-conflict elections, democratisation, governance and development;
• State-building, nation-building, identities and the question of citizenship;
• Transitional justice, reconciliation and peace;
• The economic and financial dimensions of conflict, peacekeeping and peace support operations ;
• Regional Economic Communities (RECs), regionalism and peace ;
• UN-AU-REC partnerships and peacebuilding architectures ;
• Digital media, technology, war and peace;
• Cultures, media and the art(s) of peace ;
• Gender, youth and peacebuilding ;
• Water policy, conflict and peace ;
• Peace movements
• Peace education
• Prevention of mass atrocities; and
• Public health, Covid-19, conflict, peace and development

Information on financing

Fellowships are awarded on a competitive, peer-reviewed basis and are intended to support six months of field research from June 2022 to December 2022. Up to eighteen (18) individual fellowships of up to 15,000 $ each will be awarded. Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

Eligibility criteria Individual research grants

• All candidates must be African citizens currently residing in an African country. The competition is open to African academics, policy analysts and practitioners.
• Applicants who are academics must hold a teaching or research position in an African university or research organisation and have a doctorate obtained no earlier than January 2012.
• Applicants who are policy analysts or practitioners must be based in Africa in a regional or sub-regional institution; a government agency; or a non-governmental, media or civil society organisation, and have at least a Master's degree obtained before January 2017, with at least five years of research and experience. professional in peace-building activities on the continent.

For more information, please visit the Social Science Research Council .