The George Mason University Center for Peacemaking Practice, within the School for Conflict Analysis & Resolution, invites applications for a two-year Post-Doctoral Researcher to do innovative research on the prevention of violent conflict.
The imam whose mosque was at the center of the Christchurch terrorist attack makes a call for peace education and spreading a message of love, understanding, and tolerance around the world.
“How does anyone ever learn a really new thing? Since utopias are by definition ‘new,’ ‘not-yet,’ ‘other,’ human beings will be able to function in them in ways that do not throw us back to the old order only if we pay enough attention to the learning. Wishful thinking about the desired transformation of consciousness as an inevitable historical process distracts us from studying the difficult disciplines that will make transformation possible.” – Elise Boulding
This paper, by Phill Gittins, provides a missing first-person account of doing a PAR Ph.D. in the Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) field.
The Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG) has a Fellowship opening for the summer of 2020. This is a 10-week, part-time, paid position. Application deadline: January 31, 2020.
Tides Foundation has launched the Children’s Rights Innovation Fund (CRIF) to deepen and scale learning and innovation across the field of children’s rights. The Director will lead and execute the CRIF vision.
On November 21-23 a workshop on the ‘Culture of Good Neighbourhood’ course, which is being run in education institutions in Ukraine, was held. This event was organized jointly by the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science of and the NGO Integration and Development Center for Information and Research.
An MOU was signed between UNESCO and the organization Peace and Sport in the form of a five-year partnership focusing on peace education, peace-building and the promotion of peace through sport.
These free online courses, offered by universities and NGOs, often provide a hands-on experience with international organizations that are working to achieve the SDGs through their work.
Each year, the Kroc Institute’s Visiting Research Fellows Program brings outstanding scholars focused on peace research to the University of Notre Dame for a semester or a full academic year. Applications for the 2020-21 academic year are open. Application deadline: January 1, 2020.
USIP seeks grant applications to support research that will increase the overall understanding of the complex relationships between the environment, violent conflict, and peacebuilding. Applications are due January 29, 2020.
The objective of this contract is to deliver and maximize uptake of evidence on the most effective approaches to education delivery in conflict and protracted crisis contexts. Application deadline: December 31.