Call for Papers: Gender, Global Health, and Violence
We are seeking proposals for chapters in an edited volume, tentatively entitled Gender, Global Health, and Violence: Feminist Perspectives on Peace and Disease, to be proposed to the series Routledge studies on Global Health and Politics (edited by Sophie Harman and Adam Kamradt-Scott). The volume seeks to address the complex relationships between health and social care and different forms of violence, as questions that require a variety of feminist approaches. Violence in this context should be understood widely as both direct (physical, mental, or threatened), and indirect (structural, cultural, slow), including instances of what may be termed injustice. The volume primarily situates itself at the intersection of gender studies, feminist security studies, peace studies, political economy, and global health. However, we welcome both theoretical and empirical approaches from a variety of critical disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives and methodologies.
Submissions from outside Europe and North America are especially encouraged. Abstracts should be 300-500 words long, exploring the interconnection between global health, peace, and violence, through a number of topics, including, but not limited to: age and disability issues; weapons and weapon technology; reproductive health; humanitarian interventions and human rights; sports and sports medicine; gender and sexuality; migration and mobility, including internal displacement; intimate violence; non-communicable and infectious diseases; war and armed conflict; feminist science and technology; the carceral state; ethics of care and care practices; militarism; environment and climate change; global health governance; commodification and marketisation of health and social care. Please send your abstract, title, and a short CV (2-3 pages) to Tiina Vaittinen (tiina.vaittinen(at)uta.fi) and Catia Confortini (cconfort(at)wellesley.edu.
Deadline: December 31, 2016
Ideas Matter Doctoral Fellowships for West Africa
The West African Research Association (WARA), in collaboration with The MasterCard Foundation, is pleased to announce support for young West African scholars through its new Ideas Matter Doctoral Fellowship program. This program reflects a joint commitment to increasing opportunities for emerging West African scholars, people who are transforming ideas into active solutions to the challenges facing the region and the world at large.
In 2016, the Ideas Matter Doctoral Fellowship program will award three doctoral research grants of $4,000 each. In addition to a 1500 word proposal, budget, CV, two letters of recommendation, applicants must submit a statement explaining how their research will contribute to meeting critical needs on the continent.
Deadline: July 30, 2016
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International Alert, Country Manager, Mali
We are looking for an entrepreneurial individual who has a talent for strategic programme development in the peacebuilding sector. To do this you will have strong process and interpersonal skills which will enable you to gain and maintain the trust and respect of local political actors and local civil society organisations.
You will be responsible for leading and developing Alert’s peacebuilding work in Mali. This will involve managing the country programme, supervising the work of partners and ensuring quality control of Alert’s peacebuilding outcomes, as well as financial oversight. The postholder will supervise current initiatives, whilst assessing longer-term programming opportunities in the country. Alert’s methodology is based on long-term engagement in conflict affected regions and the postholder will be required to develop a clear country strategy that can be sustained over time, and which will also make reference to the wider West Africa/Sahel region.
With a masters/postgraduate degree in a relevant subject, you will have substantial experience in peacebuilding, including directly in at least two of Alert’s thematic areas of work (e.g. governance, political economy, gender and peacebuilding, climate change and conflict, conflict-sensitivity). In addition to this we are looking for a person who is experienced in management, supervision and delivery of research outputs. You will have an eye for detail in project management and enjoy working in a diverse team, contributing to team strategy and expansion.
Deadline: July 12, 2016
Institute for Justice and Reconciliation Fellowship Program
The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) is pleased to announce the convening of a three week intensive Transitional Justice in Africa Fellowship Programme.Applicants from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda, Somalia and Zimbabwe will be given preference. We are now inviting qualified individuals to apply to this esteemed programme.
The IJR has been hosting Fellows from countries in political transition in Africa since 2000. The programme was designed to attract and bring together scholars and practitioners in the field of transitional justice to compare, reflect, research and write about their experiences and lessons learned from activities, projects and programmes in their respective countries.
A rigorous selection process will ensure the targeting of mid-career professionals working with affected communities in the field of transitional justice in sub-Saharan Africa and who are in positions to influence policy processes and disseminate their Fellowship Programme experience through practical activities when they return home. Fellows will be appointed based on their positions as opinion leaders and/or policy makers in their respective home countries and are required to convincingly show their ability to develop initiatives and interventions in their home countries to advance the transitional justice and reconciliation agenda. In addition, they must submit an institutional endorsement of their participation and commitment to implement at least one follow-up activity in-country.
The programmes’ purpose is to enhance participants’ skills and knowledge, with a particular focus on issues related to the development of tools and processes aimed at furthering reconciliation and social cohesion within the context of transitional justice. Accordingly, the Fellowship Programme will engage with some of the key literature, themes, and mechanisms and will supplement teachings with practical experiences, interaction with local organisations working in related fields and guided visits to historically significant sites and institutions dealing with reconciliation and justice.
Deadline: July 31, 2016