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Each year, the Kroc Institute’s Visiting Research Fellows Program brings outstanding scholars focused on peace research to the University of Notre Dame for a semester or a full academic year. The Institute particularly seeks scholars who will actively integrate their research with ongoing Kroc research initiatives.The application deadline is December 5, 2014.The Kroc Institute seeks applications for 2015-16 Visiting Research Fellows in the following areas:Gender, Peacebuilding &#38; Post-Accord TransformationDiaspora Communities, Conflict &#38; PeacebuildingPeace Studies (open)Gender, Peacebuilding &#38; Post-Accord TransformationThe Kroc Institute invites junior and senior scholars with significant experience conducting research on gender, peacebuilding, and post-accord transformation to apply for a Visiting Research Fellowship. Applicants who have completed fieldwork, preferably in a conflict zone, are particularly encouraged to apply.Although we will consider a range of proposals, the Kroc Institute is especially interested in proposals that:Take an interdisciplinary approach and employ qualitative, participatory, and/or feminist methodologyAddress issues beyond “women's rights” in the proposal, including masculinity, identity, power, representation, or intersectionality with race, ethnicity, and/or class, and conceptualize gender-based violence to include structural violence and marginalizationDemonstrate value added to existing expertise at the Kroc Institute on topics including social change, development, transitional justice, and religion or towards ongoing projects such as the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) or the Contending Modernities project and its working group on Gender, State, and SocietyInclude a plan for an informal seminar that meets regularly and can serve as a forum for collaboration and discussion of literature and ongoing researchThe successful candidate will work closely with Kroc scholars, master’s students, and doctoral students interested in gender and peacebuilding. The candidate should be willing to advise and work with graduate students and colleagues, both informally and in a more formal setting such as a reading group or seminar. Strong proposals will offer a clear and concise description of the research project, its significance, why the Kroc Institute is an ideal place for the researcher to complete a fellowship, and how the project will contribute to and build on existing research in the subfield of gender and peacebuilding.Diaspora Communities, Conflict &#38; PeacebuildingThe Kroc Institute invites applications from post-doctoral researchers and senior scholars who focus on the study of diaspora and migrant communities and their complex relationships to national conflicts and potential peacebuilding processes in their “homelands.”  We will consider the full range of proposals. The Kroc Institute is particularly interested in research that will focus on:Theorizing the intersections between scholarship on immigration/migration, diaspora nationalism, cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, and conflict and peaceConceptualizing the diasporas as potential spaces for conflict transformation and peacebuilding processesTheorizing the intersections between religion and public life debates in Euro-American contexts and global patterns of diaspora activismThe successful candidate will work closely with the religion, conflict, and peacebuilding cluster of researchers at the Kroc Institute as well as with scholars engaged in the study of social movements. Strong proposals will offer a clear and concise description of a research project that will contribute to, and will integrate itself within, the Kroc Institute’s effort to expand the conversation on diaspora nationalisms in various contexts and to locate areas of conceptual synergies and growth pivoted around issues of conflict and peacebuilding.Peace Studies (open)In addition to the above two topically specific fellowship opportunities, the Kroc Institute also invites proposals from post-doctoral research and senior scholars in any discipline who seek to pursue research in any aspect of peace studies. The Institute is particularly interested in research that will integrate with or complement ongoing research efforts by faculty or research programs at the Kroc Institute.The successful candidate will work closely with relevant researchers at the Kroc Institute. Strong proposals will offer a clear and concise description of a research project, identify faculty research and initiatives at the Kroc Institute that will be enhanced by the project, and explain how the research will benefit the field of peace studies.HOW TO APPLYApplicants must have completed a doctoral degree. If you are currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program, you must have completed your doctoral degree before the beginning of the fellowship.Fellowships begin at the start of the University of Notre Dame’s semester (August or January) and can run for one semester or an academic year. Junior (untenured) fellows receive a stipend of $25,000 per semester; senior (tenured) fellows receive $30,000 per semester. Housing is provided in furnished Institute apartments at no cost. Fellows have library and Internet access and document retrieval services.Applications for residence in 2015-2016 must be submitted by email to the Visiting Research Fellows Manager and received by December 5, 2014.A complete application consists of:The Visiting Research Fellows Application Form. You will  be asked to choose "Gender, Peacebuilding &#38; Conflict Transformation," or "Diaspora Communities, Conflict &#38; Peacebuilding," or “Peace Studies” (open)An up-to-date Curriculum VitaeResearch project proposal (maximum 10 pages) that concisely describes the basic elements of the research project (sources, data and analysis), a timetable, and expected productsA bibliography listing citations relevant to your proposed researchTwo letters of recommendation. Please ask your references to send letters of recommendation directly to Anne Riordan, Visiting Fellows Manager, at riordan.14@nd.eduA confirmation email will be sent to each applicant after materials are received. A Kroc Institute faculty committee reviews the applications and makes the selections. Selection criteria include evidence of academic excellence; clarity of the link to existing research emphases; and anticipation of participation in the intellectual life of the Institute. Results will be announced by March 1, 2015.If you have further questions about the application process, please contact:Anne Riordan, Visiting Research Fellows Manager, (574) 631-9370, riordan.14@nd.eduRelated linksApplication FormPrevious Visiting Research Fellows