Deadline: 26-Jun-20
Corridors has announced the call for participants for the project “Advancing Young Scholars and Peacebuilders Careers”.
The project aims to strengthen the capacities and future prospects for young researchers and civil society activists from the whole Caucasus region. Within the project, they will:
- offer training on vital skills and input on relevant topics by international experts and scholars;
- facilitate dialogue and networking among selected candidates; and
- strengthen the visibility of the participants within the expert community and enable knowledge transfer from the Caucasus into international discourses.
Project Components
- The one-week workshop “Protracted Conflicts: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives in the Caucasus” in Berlin, August 10 – 15, 2020 (TBC)
- Support for collaborative or individual academic articles or opinion papers of the workshop participants
- The joint print and online publication “Corridors-Proceedings Vol. II”
Project Participants
The project aims to support young scholars and civil society activists from the whole Caucasus region. Corridors’ invites young actors from the fields of conflict research and civil society conflict transformation from Georgia/Abkhazia, Armenia/Nagorno-Karabakh/Azerbaijan, and Russia to apply for the project. This includes advanced students, graduates, doctoral candidates, lecturers, and civil society activists up to 40 years of age. By selecting this target group, Corridors aim to strengthen future multipliers in the Caucasus and facilitate dialogue and networking across lines of conflict.
Application
To apply for the project, we kindly asked you to provide us with a short letter of motivation (one page), a curriculum vitae, and an abstract of your paper proposal of no more than 1.000 words. Corridors encourage contributions with a strong research focus and those that reflect on practical developments and experiences. They invite individual and joint applications of up to two people on topics related to the overall theme “Protracted Conflicts: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives in the Caucasus”. Topics may include:
- local and regional conflict dynamics
- common challenges for the region (like migration, youth unemployment, environment, human rights, development)
- current initiatives and trends in conflict management
- best practice examples in community peacebuilding and civil-society cooperation
- experiences in and opportunities for regional cooperation
- future perspectives and scenarios for the Caucasus
For more information, visit https://www.opencorridors.de/
