Please be informed that The Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, Germany, is looking for researchers for three-year reimbursed project “Local Peace in Central Eurasia: Studying Peace Formation in Customary and Patronal Contexts”.

Activities to be carried out:

• You are ready to contribute to comprehensive background studies of the planned research sites in Georgia or Kyrgyzstan;
• You are ready to do ethnographic fieldwork (three stays of once six and two times three months) in two selected research sites (one rural/one urban) in Georgia or Kyrgyzstan each;
• During the second and third fieldwork you try to organize small participatory research projects, depending on access;
• You are ready to take over preparatory, organizational and administrative tasks in the framework of your fieldwork;
• You support the head of the team and your colleagues in achieving the overall aims and the action plan of the project;
• You coordinate your work and meet in regular online- as well as two on-site meetings at IFSH (travel costs covered by the project budget);
• You elaborate one paper on your fieldwork and contribute with your findings to two co-authored papers on problems of local peace formation and on interdisciplinary peace research. All papers should be published in international journals (double blind peer reviewed);
• You contribute to knowledge transfer activities towards different target groups;
• Together with your colleagues you present your findings at an international conference.

Eligibility criteria:

• You have successfully finished a PhD/dissertation in social anthropology, ethnographic oriented sociology or human geography;
• You have experiences in ethnographic fieldwork in rural/urban places in the Caucasus or Central Asia;
• You have in-depth knowledge on cultural, political, economic and societal developments in Kyrgyzstan or Georgia or a neighboring state in the Caucasus or Central Asia;
• You are highly interested/have knowledge in participatory research methods and are ready to design and implement concrete projects in your respective research sites;
• You are highly interested/have knowledge in literature and academic debates on problems of international peacebuilding, interdisciplinary cooperation in the humanities, conceptual work on social orders, on peace formation and on human security;
• You have published high quality single- or co-authored academic papers in international peer-reviewed journals or books.
• You have excellent written and oral knowledge of the English language;
• You speak local languages (Kyrgyz or Georgian);
• You have communication skills and work both team-oriented and with self-initiative and independence.

Within the framework of the program, the participant will receive a monthly payment in the form of a scholarship: €700.

The program also reimburses flight and accommodation expenses.

To participate in the program and complete registration, please send the following information in PDF format to the program organizers at kreikemeyer@ifsh.de by March 27:

• motivation letter;
• Resume;
• contact information;
• Research works (if desired).
• An outline on the question: How do you envisage ethnographic and participatory research on local peace actors in Georgia or Kyrgyzstan?

For detailed information regarding the program please see the attached document.