2010-2011 Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship

Deadline: January 5, 2010

The JR Program for International Peace awards approximately ten Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowships each year to support the research and writing of doctoral dissertations addressing the sources and nature of international conflict and strategies to prevent or end conflict and to sustain peace. The Peace Scholar Fellowship is meant to assist emerging scholars at one of the most crucial points in their career. Awards may be used to support writing and research at their home institution or for field-work abroad. USIP welcomes proposals from all disciplines, however, they should be consistent with the Institute's mandate and present a research agenda with clear relevance to policy issues. Peace Scholars receive $20,000 for 10 months.

Peace Scholar applicants must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program at a University within the U.S. and must complete all required work toward the doctoral degree, except for the dissertation before the start of the award. Scholarships are open to citizens of any country. The application deadline is January 5, 2010.

For more application information, please visit http://www.usip.org/grants-fellowships/jennings-randolph-peace-school

Summer Institute in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Two-week professional workshop in Indonesia during May will focus on “Internal Conflicts in the Asia Pacific Region”

HONOLULU (Nov. 19) – Applications are being accepted through Jan. 1 for the third annual Summer Institute in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Human Rights. Organized by the Asian International Justice Initiative – a collaboration between the East-West Center and the University of California-Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center – Summer Institute 2010 will be held in partnership with the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission in Bali, followed by an optional field trip to Aceh, Sumatra.

The workshop, scheduled for May 10-22, 2010, is designed for professionals working across a broad range of fields related to IHL and human rights, including lawyers, academics, journalists, non-governmental organization workers, investigators, monitors, government agency workers and graduate-level law students. The workshop is best suited to people working within the Asia Pacific region or with an Asia Pacific focus. Participants from Southeast Asia are strongly encouraged to apply.

This year’s course will focus on the rise of internal (or non-international) conflicts in the latter part of the 20th century and the first decade of the new millennium, and their impact on both regional and international peace and security. The curriculum will focus on approaches to conflict resolution in the Asia Pacific region, with a specific emphasis on conflicts, past and present, in Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka. The primary country case studies considered during this course will be: Indonesia (particularly focusing on the conflicts in Aceh and Papua); the Philippines (particularly focusing on the conflict between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Mindanao); Sri Lanka; and southern Thailand.

The tuition fee for Summer Institute 2010 is US $2,000, which does not cover additional costs of travel, accommodation, visa fees and incidental expenses. A limited number of scholarships may be available for eligible applicants.

For further information and application instructions, visit http://www.eastwestcenter.org/summerinstitute.

For further inquiries about the program, please contact Program Coordinator Penelope Van Tuyl at mailto:summerinstitute@eastwestcenter.org.

Graduate Student Conference: The Ruptures of War Location

Call for Papers Deadline: 2009-12-14

Call For Papers
The Ruptures of War: A Conference on War, Culture, and Society.

A Graduate Student Conference
Presented by CGU's History Department, Graduate Student History
Association, and Phi Alpha Theta

A 250-word abstract must be received by December 14, 2009
Via email: gsha@cgu.edu

War is the most intense nexus of politics, violence, culture, society, and nature. The fact that it is with us constantly is exemplified by Foucault’s provocative question: “If we look beneath peace, order, wealth, and authority, beneath the calm order of subordinations, beneath the State and State apparatuses, beneath the laws, and so on, will we hear and discover a sort of primitive and permanent war?” This conference is designed as a way to explore the multifarious ways in which war affects cultures and societies. The idea of war is neither constrained by temporality nor discipline, and it is enmeshed in the human condition. War is essentially an organizing principle by which we hope to discuss many diverse topics, which can include but are not limited to:

Trauma, Suffering, Gender, The Environment, Memory, Race, Affect, Political Violence, Ideology, Technology, Secrecy, Human Rights, Torture, Justice, Power, Genocide

Bryan Price
Claremont Graduate University
School of Arts & Humanities Claremont Graduate University 121 East 10th Street Claremont, CA 91711

Email: gsha@cgu.edu
Visit the website at http://www.cgu.edu/pages/6015.asp
Crossposted: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171810&keyword=human&keyword=rights

Oak Institute - 2010 Oak Fellowship - Human Rights Activists

Oak Institute Now Accepting Applications for 2010 Oak Fellowship Location: United States
Fellowship Deadline: 2009-12-15 (in 23 days)
Date Submitted: 2009-10-16
Announcement ID: 171343

The Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights at Colby College is pleased to issue a call for nominations and applications for the 2010 Oak Human Rights Fellowship. The Oak Fellowship annually offers an opportunity for one prominent practitioner in international human rights to take a sabbatical leave from front-line work to spend the fall semester (September - December) in residence at Colby. This provides the fellow time for respite, reflection, research, and writing. Following the period of the award, the fellow is expected to return home to continue human rights work.
For the Oak Fellowship in residence at Colby College during the fall of 2010, we seek front-line human rights activists advocating for those incarcerated. Areas of work for prisoners' rights include but are not limited to living standards and health care in prisons, pretrial detention, illegal imprisonment, detained non-citizens, the right of legal representation, juvenile detention, education and practical training for inmates, post-detention rehabilitation, families of inmates, disciplinary procedures, prison privatization, gender and racial discrimination in incarceration, political prisoners, prisoners of war, torture, sexual abuse, brutality, and the death penalty.

We especially encourage applications from those who are currently or were recently involved in on-the-ground work at some level of personal risk and are in need of respite. Activists must be centrally engaged in work outside of the United States.

The appointment is for the fall semester of 2010 (mid-August through mid-December). Responsibilities include participation in a lecture series or symposium in the Fellow's area of expertise and regular interaction with Colby students through a one credit non-graded discussion class. The College provides a stipend of $32,000, plus transportation, housing, health care coverage, and other fringe benefits. We encourage the fellow to bring family through limited financial support for their travel as well.

Completed applications must arrive no later than December 15, 2009. Applications can be submitted online or via email. More information, including the application, is available on the Institute's webpage Final selection will be announced by April 15, 2010.

Professor Patrice Franko, Director
Susanna Thompson, Assistant Director
Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights
Colby College
5300 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901

Email: oakhr@colby.edu
Visit the website at http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/goldfarb/oak/

crossposted: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171343&keyword=human&keyword=rights

Gender and Sexual Violence in Eastern DRC - Internships

REJUSCO (http://www.rejusco.org/) has recently launched a new program aimed at contributing to the improvement of the accountability process for gender and sexual violence related crimes in the Eastern Congo.

In order to develop and implement this program we are currently looking for individuals willing to collaborate in the following activities:
- Conception and design of short term courses on legal responses to gender and sexual violence, taking into account Congolese and international law, to be lectured in local universities;
- Judicial monitoring of ongoing relevant judicial proceedings;
- Participation in activities to increase awareness about sexual violence as well as available socio-legal and judicial mechanisms to respond to this phenomenon (local communities and refugee camps);
- Field research (under the direction of a team composed by an anthropologist and lawyers) on traditional justice responses to gender and sexual violence in local communities;
- Analysis and commentary of relevant jurisprudence developed by Congolese courts.


- Applicants should be fluent in French or Swahili;
- Applications from Law, Sociology, Anthropology, International Development and other related social sciences are welcome. Previous research and/or experience in gender studies are strongly preferred.

REJUSCO is currently unable to provide any salary or stipend.
Volunteers are expected to be based in Goma and work with our local teams. A minimum commitment of 10 weeks is expected.