IIPAC Launches 2027 International Peace Scholar Award Program: Ukraine
Applications and eligibility details coming soon for 2027 Master’s and PhD awards in Ukraine.
The International Institute for Peacebuilding in Active Conflict (IIPAC) is proud to announce the IIPAC International Peace Scholar Award Program at Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy (BKNUC).
The award supports graduate scholars conducting research addressing peacebuilding during active conflict from within the conflict zone.
Award recipients will conduct their studies and research in Ukraine, among people living the consequences of war, with direct access to the institutions, communities, and lived realities shaping both conflict and the possibilities for peace.
Awarded scholars will contribute to the development of the Proxi-TemporalTM Peacebuilding Framework and related research examining what peacebuilding can and should look like while conflict is still underway.
Research From Inside the War
Conducting research in war zones during the war is unique, it’s necessary, but it is difficult.
For IIPAC Founder and Chief Academic Officer, Dr. Mehri Hilton, that difficulty is precisely why the research matters. “The gap in peacebuilding research is the ‘during.’ That’s when institutions are under strain, communities are traumatized, people are displaced; the choices made in this moment have huge impact on what peace will emerge.”
Oleksandr Spriahailo is BKNUC’s Vice-Rector for Scientific, Innovative and International Activities. He explains, “Our students, faculty, and communities are not studying war from afar. They are living it. They are literally under attack. Our lives are something that no simulation, no case study, and no research-from-afar can reproduce. There may be no better place to study peacebuilding during war than a university living through war itself.”
Eligibility
Award applicants may come from a wide range of academic disciplines, including economics, history, the arts, political science, sociology, and related fields. Their areas of study may differ, but their research will share a common purpose: each project must meaningfully contribute to the study, understanding, or practice of peacebuilding within and during active conflict.
The IIPAC International Peace Scholar Award is supported through charitable contributions from individuals, foundations, and organizations committed to education, research, and peacebuilding.
Details regarding eligibility, award levels and the application process will be announced soon.
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