- Grant Amount – $10,000
- Deadline – December 31, 2027
- CLICK HERE TO APPLY
The Australian National University has announced its $10,000 Balzan PhD Fellowships to expand the horizons of restorative justice research in all regions of the planet, including Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Oceania, and right across Asia.
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Yet the main geographic and spending focus will be on Africa with the production of many papers by dozens of young African scholars funded by Braithwaite’s Balzan Prize. They will work on restorative justice or peacemaking in 20 or more specific war-afflicted African countries.
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Aims
- Renew and expand the social movement for restorative justice by deepening restorative research capability among young scholars in Africa, China, and worldwide.
- Complete initial fieldwork for Peacebuilding Compared in Africa, Ukraine, Chechnya, Yemen, and Syria.
- Encourage and support recipients of Balzan PhD Fellowships to lead with editing and publishing collections of articles (hopefully many co-authored with John Braithwaite) with titles like Indigenous Justice, Restorative Justice and Peacemaking in Africa or Restorative Justice and Peacemaking in Africa.
- Chinese University of Hong Kong will collaborate with the project under the leadership of Dr Jin Sun and would deliver and fund sub-projects on restorative justice and peacemaking.
Funding Information
- At least 20, and perhaps approaching 30 Balzan Restorative Justice and Peacemaking PhD Fellowships will be offered to PhD students mostly enrolled in African universities studying restorative justice and/or peacemaking in that same country.
- The Fellowship will be US$10,000: $5000 to support their in-country fieldwork after they have provided a persuasive fieldwork plan with signed approval of it by their principal PhD Supervisor. Their PhD Supervisor has total responsibility for the direction, theoretical framework, and methodology of their PhD.
- But John Braithwaite will not authorize disbursement of the $5000 US unless it meets the Balzan Project excellence standards. A year later, once a satisfactory draft chapter or paper has been and presented at one of the 25 half-day Braithwaite Balzan Zoom symposiums of all Fellows, again with the agreement in writing from their university supervisor, they will be awarded a second US$5000 for further fieldwork, purchase of books, and the like, to assist in completing their PhD.
Eligibility:
- Enrolled PhD students can apply to the Australian National University for Fellowships from John Braithwaite’s Balzan Prize funds.
- Successful applicants will also enjoy opportunities for interaction, perhaps even limited employment, with John Braithwaite and his research team. Eligibility is restricted to:
- Scholars already enrolled in a recognised university PhD program.
- PhD projects on Restorative Justice/Peacemaking.
- PhD projects needing fieldwork support only in the following countries:
- African Countries: Algeria, Angola, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d-Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt (Peacebuilding Compared will code the Sinai insurgency 2011-2023), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Liberia, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Western Sahara.
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