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The Senior Fellowship application for the fellowship program beginning in October 2013 is now open.
Featured Publications & Tools
Pandemics and Peace examines disease surveillance networks of the Mekong Basin, Middle East, and East Africa to answer to interrelated questions: Why is interstate cooperation in an area of national vulnerability occurring among countries with a history of conflict? How do public-private networks deliver transnational public goods (health), and what factors facilitate or impede effective and legitimate transnational governance?
Israel is and remains a deeply divided society of some 5.6 million Jews and some 1.2 million Palestinian-Arab citizens. Sammy Smooha, a 2009-10 Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace addresses attitudes and the divisions surrounding the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Fellow Snapshots
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Distinguished Scholar
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Transatlantic Post-Doctoral International Relations and Security (TAPIR) Fellow, October 2011 - May 2012
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The Jennings Randolph (JR) Senior Fellowship Program provides scholars, policy analysts, policymakers, and other experts with opportunities to spend time in residence at the Institute, reflecting and writing on pressing international peace and security challenges.
Senior Fellowships generally last for ten months, starting in October. Shorter-term fellowships are also available. Fellowships are open to citizens of any country.
Highlights from Senior Fellows
- The Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program notes with sadness the death of former Senior Fellow John Darby (1998).
- On May 27, former Senior Fellow Marc Sommers (2009-2010) published an OpEd in the New York Times, "The Darling Dictator of the Day," about Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
- On March 20, current Senior Fellow Jelke Boesten gave a lecture, "“Rape in Times of War and Peace: Rethinking Sexual Violence and Postwar Justice in Peru,” sponsored by the Global Gender Forum at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.
- Ahmet Yukleyen, who is both a 2003-2004 Peace Scholar and a current Non-Residential Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, has published a book based on his USIP-supported dissertation, Localizing Islam in Europe: Turkish Islamic Communities in Germany and the Netherlands, with Syracuse University Press.
- Senior Fellow James Savage contributed to a USIP blog, International Network on Economics and Conflict, with a post entitled “Replacing Violent Battles with Budget Battles: The Budget as a Source of Political and Institutional Stability in Iraq.”
- Former Senior Fellow Keith Watenpaugh (2008-2009) has been awarded a ACLS/SSRC/NEH Fellowship for 2013 to finish his book The Middle East and Human Rights: Mass Violence, Refugees, and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism.
- On November 18, current Senior Fellow Donald Horowitz spoke at a conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the Arab Spring, and on November 30, he participated in a workshop on ethnicity and clientelism in Lebanon and Yemen at the University of Maryland.
- Senior Fellow Veronica Eragu spoke at the Harvard Leadership Conference on a panel on "Human Rights Considerations in the Peace Processes."
- Senior Fellow Lise Howard gave a paper at the George Washington University Comparative Politics Workshop on "U.S. Foreign Policy Habits in Ethnic Conflict." Current Senior Fellow Donald Horowitz was the respondent.
- Senior Fellow Jok Madut Jok participated in a USIP event on "Perspectives on Sudan's Referendum." The discussions was cited in PBS's NewsHour Online. Read more. Jok also published a USIP News Feature, "Independent Southern Sudan and How the Two Sudans Become Stable Nations."
- Read more about the Senior Fellows' activities.