Social Science Research Council

The SSRC's Fellowships on Global Security & Cooperation were created in 2000 as a successor to the long running fellowship competition of the International Peace and Security Program (1984-2000). With an emphasis on human security, the fellowships aimed to nurture innovative research and collaboration across world regions and between academics and practitioners. From 2000-2003, fellowships were awarded to 32 international scholars and practitioners located in various regions throughout the world. Simultaneously, the GSC ran a competition for Grants for Research Collaboration in Conflict Zones. Over the course of two years, 16 grants were awarded to research teams located in places where there were long-standing, intractable, or widespread violent conflicts in order to support new perspectives and approaches to understanding and ameliorating the root causes of conflict in these regions. The GSC Committee, an international advisory committee of renowned scholars, assisted in the selection of fellows and grantees and ensured a truly global dimension of the program.

In addition to their research, GSC Fellows and Grantees convened annually at a Fellows Conference in order to share their work with each other and the Committee. The Fellows have also acted as editorial teams working with GSC staff to produce the electronic newsletter GSC Quarterly.

While the GSC no longer offers the Fellowships on Global Security & Cooperation or the Grants on Research Collaboration in Conflict Zones, it remains committed to the promotion of progressive and innovative research and the internationalization of the security field. As such, we will continue to administer some fellowships and grants on an ad hoc basis, such as the Collaborative Action Research Grants and the Scholars' Exchange on Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans.

Please continue to check this page for up-to-date information on GSC competitions. Additionally, please see the SSRC's main fellowship page for other funding opportunities offered by the Council.