USIP Fellowship programs support cutting-edge research, writing, analysis and convening by emerging and leading international experts from many disciplinary and professional backgrounds. The Fellowship programs provide USIP resources to add to its in-house expertise and inform its programmatic work, while contributing to USIP’s role as a bridge between academics, reflective practitioners and policy-makers.
Since 1988, The Jennings Randolph Peace Scholars program has supported the dissertations of roughly 265 young scholars, most of whom have gone on to distinguished careers in research, teaching and policy making. This annual award program now partners with the Minerva Research Initiative to offer additional pre-doctoral fellowships on peace and security topics. USIP’s Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship program has supported research, writing and in-house advising on a wide variety of topics related to peace and conflict, from Track Two Diplomacy and its influence on US-Russia relations to oil and conflict, through over 315 ten-month, residential fellowships to date. The Institute also hosts Military Fellows serving in a Senior Service College Fellowship capacity and Post-Doctoral Fellows via the Transatlantic Post-Doctoral Fellowship for International Relations and Security (TAPIR) Program.
The 2018-2019 Peace Scholarship program competition for pre-doctoral dissertation support is now closed. The deadline to complete your application was Friday, December 1, 2017, 6:00 pm/18:00 EST, for scholarships beginning in September 2018. Letters of reference are due on Friday, December 8, 2017. Thank you for your cooperation.
The Senior Fellowship program supports targeted research, analysis and writing that is more closely integrated with the work of the Institute, with greater flexibility in terms of application opportunities, than previously.
USIP’s Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace awards non-residential Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowships to students enrolled in U.S. universities and who are writing doctoral dissertations on topics related to international conflict management and peacebuilding.
Each year USIP offers a limited number of additional fellowship opportunities focusing on specific issue areas and/or conflict zones outstanding scholars, policymakers and other professionals who work in areas that advance our understanding of issues central to USIP’s mandate. Please see our How to Apply for a Peace Scholarship page for more information about the application.