Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program
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Fellowship Winners Notification Process: The final stage of the review process for the 2012-2013 Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Competition was delayed but is currently underway. We anticipate that the results of the competition will be announced on or around March 9. Winners will be notified by email.
Featured Publications & Tools
Pandemics and Peace examines disease surveillance networks of the Mekong Basin, Middle East, and East Africa to answer to interrelated questions: Why is interstate cooperation in an area of national vulnerability occurring among countries with a history of conflict? How do public-private networks deliver transnational public goods (health), and what factors facilitate or impede effective and legitimate transnational governance?
Israel is and remains a deeply divided society of some 5.6 million Jews and some 1.2 million Palestinian-Arab citizens. Sammy Smooha, a 2009-10 Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace addresses attitudes and the divisions surrounding the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Fellow Snapshots
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Transatlantic Post-Doctoral International Relations and Security (TAPIR) Fellow, October 2011 - April 2012
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Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, October 2011- April 2012
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The Jennings Randolph (JR) Senior Fellowship Program provides scholars, policy analysts, policymakers, and other experts with opportunities to spend time in residence at the Institute, reflecting and writing on pressing international peace and security challenges. The Institute awards between 8 and 12 Fellowships per year.
Senior Fellowships generally last for ten months, starting in October. Shorter-term fellowships are also available. Fellowships are open to citizens of any country.
Highlights from Senior Fellows
- Senior Fellow Jok Madut Jok participated in a USIP event on "Perspectives on Sudan's Referendum." The discussions was cited in PBS's NewsHour Online. Read more. Jok also published a USIP News Feature, "Independent Southern Sudan and How the Two Sudans Become Stable Nations."
- TAPIR Fellow Judith Vorrath gave a paper at a meeting of the Washington International Group at the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. She spoke on "Beyond the Inter-Ethnic Divide: Negotiations, Conflict Lines and Fragmentation in Burundi's Peace Process."
- Senior Fellow Andrew Pierre published an OpEd in The Huffington Post, "What If Gaddafi Had the Bomb?"
- Senior Fellow Zheng Wang took part in the annual Strait Talk Symposium at the University of Hong Kong. Founded by a group of Chinese students from Hong Kong, the PRC, and Taiwan who were attending Brown University five years ago, the annual symposium for Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwanese university students stresses mutual conflict resolution learning and practice. Wang acted as a key facilitator and lecturer. JR Senior Program Officer Lili Cole gave the final presentation on "A Critical Introduction to Reconciliation, the Final Phase of Peace Building."
- Army Fellow John Maraia represented USIP at the University of Central Florida, speaking to students on conflict, peace-building and international relations, as part of USIP's educations outreach program.
- Senior Fellow Michael Bratton was interviewed by Tan Yingzi of China Daily, US Edition, on US intervention in Libya, and by Tatenda Gumbo for Voice of America, on power sharing, elections and transitional justice in Zimbabwe.
- Read more about the Senior Fellows' activities.