UPEACE-IDRC PhD Doctoral Research Awards and PhD Fellowships

The Africa Programme of the University for Peace (UPAP) has secured funding from the Canadian International Development Research Center (IDRC) to build research capacity in Africa in  Governance and Security Studies. This research grant cycle is a second one received from IDRC after the first one that UPEACE received in 2007 and that focused on developing research capacity in Peace, Conflict and Development.

The present grant comes from two programs within IDRC, the Fellowships and Awards Program (F&A) and the Governance, Security and Justice Program (GSJ).

Support from the two programs will enable UPEACE Africa programme to train a total of 30 PhD candidates registered with universities in Sub Saharan Africa. 

The first category is composed of Doctoral research awards. Candidates in this category are PhD candidates who  are registered at universities in Sub Saharan Africa and have completed the required course work and/or other  preliminary doctoral requirements as instructed by their universities. They would be in the phase of doing their field work, analyzing their data and writing their thesis. A total of 26 doctoral research awards will be granted during this project.

The second category of PhD fellows is composed of PhD students who have freshly registered at universities in sub Saharan Africa and are at the very beginning of their studies. The project will grant a total of  four (4) fellowships.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
2012 UPEACE-IDRC PHD FELLOWSHIPS