IAMCR calls for candidates for the IAMCR peace fellowships. The deadline for application is 15 December 2023.

Established during the Cold War by researchers from East and West, IAMCR has a long history of promoting academic collaboration and dialogue in situations where governments or communities see each other as unfriendly adversaries at best, and enemies at worst.

As an academic association, the creation of collaborative contact zones is particularly important, allowing individual scholars from ‘both sides’ to work together in the production of knowledge. Here, the themes that structure these collaborations need to be kept open, not exclusively focussing on the antagonistic conflict itself, and its causes and/or remedies. Collaborative contact zones often function best when the conflict is not the theme, given the many sensitivities, restrictions and even risks that might burden collaborations thematically focussed on the conflict.

IAMCR wants to support the creation of collaborative contact zones, with the modest means at its disposal. By establishing IAMCR peace fellowships, IAMCR will facilitate the collaboration of pairs of individual scholars, who are based in, or strongly connected to, two regions or communities that are currently engaged, or recently have been engaged, in an antagonistic conflict. An IAMCR peace fellowship will last 2 years, in order to provide sufficient time for collaboration, and IAMCR will select up to two pairs of peace fellows per year. After four years, IAMCR’s Executive Board will evaluate the project and decide on its continuation.

Requirements and procedures

(a) A travel grant of 1500 USD, for both scholars, to attend one (1) main IAMCR conference, in order to present their collaborative work. When peace fellows are demonstrably in the impossibility to travel to IAMCR conferences, the funds can be used, pending IAMCR approval, for a different channel of communication to the IAMCR community.

(b)An individual membership for both scholars, for two years.

(c) Opportunities to present their work at online or face-to-face IAMCR fora, to be decided in consultation with both scholars.

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