Post-Soviet Conflict Resolution Research Funding

The Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction, at Dublin City University, launched by US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton in December 2012,  has been awarded an EU grant of €3.6m.

The lead researchers are Dr John Doyle, Director of IICRR, Dr Donnacha O Beachain and Dr Eileen Connolly.

The grant will fund a 4-year European early career researcher training network for new PhDs and post-doctoral fellows focused on conflict and post conflict tensions in the former Soviet space. The project will support the development of a team of 12 PhD students and 2 Post-Doctoral fellows, who will have regional specialisation on the former Soviet region, a very strong research training and three years’ experience of working in an international and intercultural environment.  DCU will lead this project, drawing on our experience of analysing conflict resolution processes and also our experts in international relations and the politics of the former Soviet region.  Other partners include the Universities of Bremen, Oslo, Warsaw, Tallinn and St Andrews in Scotland. Each researcher will spend time working in at least 2 universities within the network, will spend prolonged periods living and working in the former Soviet region and will spend at least one period working in a non-academic private sector partner.

Experts on tensions and conflict resolution in the former Soviet are in high demand and this programme will lay the basis for ensuring that Europe is self-sustaining in creating the best young researchers in the world with an expertise on the tensions and conflicts in the former Soviet space.

These grants are intensely competitive and only awarded to groups of universities who are seen to be at the leading edge of their area of expertise.