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. The Institute particularly seeks scholars who will actively integrate their research with ongoing Kroc research initiatives.
**Gender and Conflict/Peacebuilding
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The Kroc Institute invites scholars with significant experience conducting research on the intersection of gender, conflict, and peacebuilding to apply for a Visiting Research Fellowship.
Although we will consider a range of proposals, the Kroc Institute is especially interested in proposals that:
Take an interdisciplinary approach and employ qualitative, participatory, and/or feminist methodology Address issues beyond “women's rights” including masculinity, identity, power, representation, or intersectionality with race, ethnicity, and/or class, and conceptualize gender-based violence to include structural violence and marginalization Demonstrate clear connections to Peace Studies and value added to existing expertise at the Kroc Institute on topics including social change, development, transitional justice, and religion or towards ongoing projects such as the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) or the Contending Modernities project and its working group on Gender, State, and Society
The candidate should offer a clear and concise description of the research project, its significance, why the Kroc Institute is an ideal place for the researcher to complete a fellowship, and how the project will contribute to and build on existing research in the subfield of gender and conflict/peacebuilding.
Diaspora Communities, Conflict & Peacebuilding
The Kroc Institute invites scholars who focus on the study of diaspora and migrant communities and their complex relationships to national conflicts and potential peacebuilding processes in their “homelands.” Although we will consider the full range of proposals, the Kroc Institute is particularly interested in research that will focus on:
Theorizing the intersections between scholarship on immigration/migration, diaspora nationalism, cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, and conflict and peace Conceptualizing the diasporas as potential spaces for conflict transformation and peacebuilding processes Theorizing the intersections between religion and public life debates in Euro-American contexts and global patterns of diaspora activism
The successful candidate will work closely with the religion, conflict, and peacebuilding cluster of researchers at the Kroc Institute as well as with scholars engaged in the study of social movements. Strong proposals will offer a clear and concise description of a research project that will contribute to, and will integrate itself within, the Kroc Institute’s effort to expand the conversation on diaspora nationalisms in various contexts and to locate areas of conceptual synergies and growth pivoted around issues of conflict and peacebuilding.
**Peace Studies
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The Kroc Institute also invites proposals from scholars in any discipline who seek to pursue research in any aspect of peace studies.
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