FELLOWSHIP

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Call for Research Proposal

CGS-UNDP Fellowship on Peace, 2021

About the Fellowship
The Centre for Genocide Studies (CGS), University of Dhaka in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is offering four CGS-UNDP Fellowship Award on Peace for 4 months. The Fellowship is designed to widen the scope of evidence-based research on crime and violence in Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Peace Observatory (BPO) (accessible at: http://peaceobservatory-ca.org) as a repository of data on violence, violence prevention and social cohesion will be the basis of research under this Fellowship. It also aims to engage researcher with the BPO for disseminating the evidence through sophisticated analytical works.

Eligibility Requirements for Fellowship Applicants

• Applicant must be 30 years or above.
• Candidate must have demonstrated outstanding scholastic achievement and ability to complete the fellowship successfully.
• Applicants should ideally have a Master's degree in any discipline from social sciences and related area. Applicants with PhD in relevant area are preferable.
• The proposal ought to reflect BPO data and at least one or more categories of violence reported in BPO.
• This is an equal opportunity Fellowship irrespective of gender, race, religion and nationality.

Duration of Fellowship
The duration of the Fellowship is 4 (four) months from the date of signing of the contract.

Fellowship Preference
The Fellowship will be awarded to researchers and scholars who can contribute to theoretical and empirical research on data from the BPO and relevant sources.

Value of Fellowship Award
The value of theaward will be between BDT. 140,000 to 250,000.

Deliverables
A monograph of 25,000 words excluding notes, references and appendices and a public presentation in an international conference on Genocide and Mass Violence in December 2021.

Selection Process
Fellowship will be awarded based on the relevance with the BPO theme as well as on merit. A selection panel nominated by CGS will initially review the applications and only shortlisted applicants will be called in for interview. The decision of CGS will be final in awarding the fellowship.

Application Process
Interested individuals/applicants are encouraged to apply in the format prescribed by CGS. The electronic version of the application form can be obtained from BPO website (peaceobservatory-ca.org/#/fellowship) or can be emailed on request at CGS email (cgs@du.ac.bd). The applicant will have to submit a research proposal (1,500- 2,000 words) at CGS, Dhaka University along with the application form.

The deadline for submission of application for the CGS-UNDP Fellowship is: 14 April 2021