Job announcement for researchers from Central Eurasia - University of Hamburg, Germany

21 March 2023

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.