Deadline: 1 May 2020
The Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (Kroc IPJ) has announced the 2020/2021 Women PeaceMakers fellowship.
The unique 12-month fellowship, including a 6-week residency at the Kroc IPJ in San Diego, focuses on strengthening and improving peace efforts around the world by building an engaged community of peacemakers from conflict-affected communities and international peace partners looking to enhance their ability to end cycles of violence.
Over the course of the fellowship, the cohort of peacebuilders and accompanying peace researchers, who document their journey, methods and strategies, will engage in an active learning community with in-person residencies and a virtual learning exchange to explore successes and challenges to their work ending cycles of violence. Using critical reflection and co-created learning, the cohort will design shared commitments for stronger, more effective collaboration on key issues to guide women peacebuilders around the world.
This Year’s Fellowship Focus
Each year the fellowship’s research has a specific peacebuilding issue area it is gathering evidence and data on. During this year they will focus on:
- How can international peacebuilding organizations better partner with local women peacebuilders to address the closing spaces and increased insecurity women are currently facing when working to end cycles of violence?
This fellowship will include the following four streams of work:
- Residency
- Learning Lab Retreat
- Local Insight Sharing and Partnership Building Project
- Developing and Driving Forward Applied Research Outputs
Throughout all four streams of work the Kroc IPJ Research Team will be learning from and with Fellows, and documenting key insights to inform larger-scale women, peace and security change processes.
During the 12-month fellowship with the Kroc IPJ, Fellows will:
- Learn from and with other leading Fellows and the Kroc School’s team;
- Gain new perspectives, support and innovative approaches to peacebuilding;
- Expand their professional peacebuilding networks;
- Drive forward vital peacebuilding research that focuses on shifting practice and policy.
Four Fellows and four individuals who represent leading international peacebuilding organizations (IPs), will be selected as a cohort to drive forward applied research that focuses on building mutual learning and stronger partnerships between women peacebuilders and international organizations who are working to end cycles of violence.
Criteria
Applicants for the Women PeaceMakers Fellowship must:
- Have worked for 10+ years as a peacebuilder and have worked directly in their local peacebuilding contexts;
- Demonstrates peacebuilding/peacemaking skills and attitudes;
- Be in a position to participate in all activities during the 12-month fellowship and apply what is learned at the conclusion of the residency program;
- Has worked directly with an international peacebuilding organizations on the 2020/2021 year’s focus (see above);
- Demonstrate local credibility and a strong social network within her country/community of practice;
- Speak sufficient English to relate personal experiences.
For more information, visit https://www.sandiego.edu/peace/institutes/ipj/global-programs/women-peace-security/