Call for IAMCR peace fellowships
IAMCR calls for candidates for the IAMCR peace fellowships. The deadline for application is 15 December 2023.
Submit your proposal to the IAMCR Peace Fellowships
Rationale
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.
IAMCR’s position has not always been easy, as these collaborations were considered by the outside world and by many academic colleagues as undesirable and unethical. The almost inescapable focus on the evilness of the other—sometimes legitimate, sometimes exaggerated and sometimes (black) propaganda—makes it difficult to take a long-term perspective, looking beyond the particularity of the conflict; to take a humanist perspective, recognizing the human in the other-academic and severing the automatic link between nation-states and communities on the one hand, and individual academics on the other; and to contribute to peace-building, preparing and supporting discursive and material structures that would allow for the transformation of antagonism into agonism, for the facilitation of reconciliation and forgiving, for the healing of cultural traumas, and for the defence of justice and human rights.
Requirements and procedures
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 o