2000-2001 Pre/Postdoctoral and Hamburg Fellowship Programs

CISAC has two social science fellowship programs for predoctoral and postdoctoral students and scholars, which provide opportunities for concentrated study in a multidisciplinary environment.

Pre/Postdoctoral Fellowships

Research topics

The Center invites applications on a broad range of topics related to peace and international security. Topics suitable for support might include:

-- security relationships in Europe, Asia, and the Former Soviet Union
-- U.S.-Russian strategic relations
-- U.S. defense and arms control policies
-- proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons
-- ethnic and civil conflict
-- peacekeeping
-- the prevention of deadly conflict
-- the commercialization of national defense technologies.

Visiting fellows spend the academic year at Stanford University completing their projects, participating in seminars, and interacting with each other and the resident faculty and research staff. The Center facilities on the Stanford campus include offices, a conference room, and a specialized library. Fellows also have access to other Stanford libraries.

Eligibility

Fellowships are available to Ph.D. candidates who have made substantial progress toward the completion of their dissertations, and to scholars with Ph.D. or equivalent degrees from the United States and abroad. The Center is also interested in applications from military officers or civilian members of the U.S. government, members of military or diplomatic services from other countries, and journalists interested in arms control and international security issues. Applications from women and minorities are encouraged.

Financial support

The value of each fellowship award is determined by the applicant's graduate education and background. Stipends for the nine-month academic year range from approximately $18,000 for pre-doctoral students to $30,000 for post-doctoral scholars. Some funds are also available for research-related expenses.

Hamburg Fellowships

The Hamburg Fellowship program brings outstanding young scholars from around the world to Stanford University to work on issues related to preventing deadly conflict.

Research topics

The program promotes scholarship focusing on the prevention of deadly conflict, both in the pre-conflict stage and in the implementation phase of peace agreements. Possible areas for research are:

-- doctrinal or theoretical rationales for prevention
-- the appropriate tools for prevention
-- the institutions and actors central to the prevention of deadly conflict
-- or specific cases in which prevention worked or failed to work.

Specific topics might include, but are not limited to, issues of policing, judiciaries, and civil-military relations; the use of sanctions and other economic tools for the prevention of conflict; early warning mechanisms, mediation processes, and other forms of third-party intervention; environmental degradation and its effect on deadly conflict; the role of non-lethal weapons and other military technologies in preventing conflict; and the role of leadership in prevention.

Eligibility

The competition is open to students in different disciplines that are related to the prevention of deadly conflict. The Center invites applicants from a broad range of disciplines, including law, political science, anthropology, sociology, economics, the natural and physical sciences, medicine, history, and other related fields. Applications from women and minorities are encouraged.

Candidates will typically be advanced doctoral students or the equivalent who have completed all of the curricular and residency requirements at their own institutions and who are engaged in the research and write-up stage of their dissertations in a field related to the prevention of deadly conflict. We encourage applications from all countries.

Applicants will be chosen on the basis of their graduate record, the quality of their research proposal and the relevance of their research topic to the general issue of conflict prevention.

Financial support

The fellowship carries a stipend of approximately $2,000 per month, and the term of the fellowships will be nine months. Reimbursement for some travel and health insurance expenses will be considered for fellows and their immediate dependents. Fellows will have an office at the Center to ensure their integration into the full spectrum of research activities in the targeted fields. At the end of the fellowship year, in conjunction with the work of the Hamburg Fellowship program, CISAC will organize a symposium on preventing deadly conflict.

Applications

The deadline for receipt of all applications (both Pre/Postdoctoral and Hamburg) is February 1, 2000. Applications are available in PDF on our website.

You can also send for an application by writing to the fellowship coordinator:
Barbara Platt
CISAC
Encina Hall
Stanford, CA 94305-6165
tel. (650) 723-9626
fax (650) 723-0089
e-mail: barbara.platt@stanford.edu