Peace, Reconciliation and Transitional Justice

Project

This new programme for postgraduate funding offers PhD opportunities in Social Sciences, Law, Education and Divinity and Religious Studies, in the area of post-conflict studies, exploring issues of peace, reconciliation and transitional justice. It builds on expertise in the College of Arts and Social Science, where there is already a critical mass of PhD students working on these topics.

Areas of particular interest are:

human rights and human rights law; the theology and ethics of peace, forgiveness and reconciliation; the politics of peace processes and post-conflict political recovery; the role of education in societal healing, equality of opportunity and justice; gender and peacebuilding; transitional justice mechanisms after conflict, such as memory, truth recovery and amnesties; the sociology of peace processes; religion and peacebuilding; victims and perpetrators.

The programme offers special features that are attractive in this growing international field, such as

• Working with acknowledged experts across a diversity of fields
• Opportunities for imaginative and innovative interdisciplinary topics
• Cross-disciplinary supervision
• Well established and well resourced library facilities and holdings
• Opportunities to link with empirical research projects underway in this area
• Opportunities to work with civil society groups in practitioner roles
• Attention to career development, as well as public engagement

Awards

In this inaugural year of the project 2013/14, we invite applications for 4 PhD studentships from high achieving students to join us in pursuing rigorous disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary research into these questions.

Application Process

A normal application for admission to the PhD programme is required and applicants should make explicit note their interest in being considered for a 'Peace, Reconciliation and Transitional Justice Studentship' in their application materials.

Information about application procedures can be found here: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply.php

Deadline

All application materials must be received by 8 March 2013. 

For further details of the project and research supervisors involved please click here.