Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship Dissertation Program
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2011-2012 Jennings Randolph Peace Scholars
- Ahsan Butt | Department of Political Science, University of Chicago | Goodbye or See You Later? Why States Fight Some Secessionists but not Others
- Sheena Chestnut Greitens | Department of Government, Harvard University | Inside the Secret Police: Explaining Patterns of State Violence Under Authoritarianism
- Erik Cleven | Department of Political Science, Purdue University | Elites, Youth and Informal Networks: Explaining Ethnic Violence in Kenya and Kosovo
- Keren Fraiman | Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Not in Your Backyard: Coercion, Base States and Violent State Actors
- Kevan Harris | Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University | The Martyrs' Welfare State: The Politics of Social Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Marina Henke | Department of Politics and Public Policy, Wookdrow Wilson School, Princeton University | International Security and the Politics of Interdependence
- Javier Osorio | Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame | Hobbes on Drugs: Understanding Drug Violence in Mexico
- Hesham Sallam | Department of Government, Georgetown University | Indispensible Arbiter: Islamists, Economic Reform and Authoritarian Renewal in the Arab World
- Joshua White | School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), John Hopkins University | Conflicted Islamisisms: Shariah and Anti-State Agitation Among Pakistani Islamist Parties
The Jennings Randolph (JR) Program for International Peace awards nonresidential Peace Scholar Dissertation Scholarships to students at U.S. universities who are writing doctoral dissertations on topics related to peace, conflict, and international security.
Each year the program awards approximately ten Peace Scholar Fellowships. Fellowships last for 10 months starting in September. Fellowships are open to citizens of any country.
Dissertation projects in all disciplines are welcome.
The 2012-2013 Peace Scholar Competition has closed. Applications for the 2013-2014 cycle will open in late 2012. Read about the application process on our How to Apply page.
The class of 2010-2011 Jennings Randolph Senior Fellows and Jennings Randolph Peace Scholars met at USIP in Washington, D.C. in October, 2010 for an orientation program. This is the third year that Peace Scholars have been invited to Washington, D.C. for a two-day orientation program, part of our ongoing initiative to build more active ties among Senior Fellows, Peace Scholars, and USIP experts.
The program was organized around six themes central to the work of the incoming class of Senior Fellows and Peace Scholars: "Why Do States Behave as They Do?"; "Understanding Local Variations in Violence"; "Armed Groups, Civilians, and Displaced People: How Relations Between them Hamper or Further Peace-Building"; "Political and Economic Arrangements after Wars"; "Understanding Radicalization, Insurgency and the Forces that Oppose Them"; and "Post-Conflict Justice, Memory and Reconciliation, and Pedagogies of Peace-Building."
The program also included a breakfast discussion for Peace Scholars on how their program can be developed to meet more professional needs beyond financial support for dissertation work; presentations on new projects and issue areas at USIP; and a visit to the site of the new Headquarters building on the Mall.