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About the Project:
This project is an empirical attempt to bridge the gap between liberal peace and justice interventions and community needs. It uses an innovative methodology to narrow that gap in a systematic and rigorous way and provides case studies in Uganda and Colombia to demonstrate and instrumentalize the possibilities for creating more inclusive systems of monitoring and evaluation and program development. It builds on my previous work that conceptualizes and pilots this methodology in four pilot projects in sub-Saharan Africa funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This will advance USIP’s core principles by furthering the discussion surrounding the effectiveness of community accompaniment in the peacebuilding and human rights sectors by evaluating the impact of transitional justice interventions on peace and reconciliation in communities.
The book project I will be working on at USIP is tentatively entitled: Everyday Peace and Justice: Evaluating Community Interventions toward Reconciliation
About the Fellowship Program:
From 1986 through 2015, USIP’s Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship program 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. In response to the maturing field of peacebuilding and in order to make efficient use of Institute, the Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship program has been restructured.
Beginning in 2015, the Senior Fellowship program will support 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. Calls for Concept Notes or applications for fellowships affiliated with specific USIP centers and programs will be issued throughout the year instead of once annually, and can be found on the Fellowship Program webpages, along with application directions and links to appropriate templates. Senior Fellowships will generally be hosted by USIP Centers, whose staff will also be responsible for determining the themes on which Concept Notes or applications will be requested. Calls for applications or concept notes for fellowship opportunities will be posted on a rolling basis. For more regarding USIP’s application process, please consult specific fellowship opportunity guidelines and our Fellowship Application Process page.
In addition to the Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program, whose winners go through a competitive application review process, the Institute also hosts two 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.