Funding

Atlantic Region Fellowship for Middle East Conservation Professionals
QLF/Atlantic Center Middle East Program
55 South Main St.
Ipswich, MA 01938, USA
Phone: (1-978)356-0038
Fax: (1-978)356-7322
E-mail: stjohn@qlf.org
Website: http://www.qlf.org

Description: The Atlantic Center will offer five fellowships to natural resource stewardship practitioners from the Middle East. Participants will travel to the Atlantic Region (composed of New England and eastern Canada) for the program, which is intended to promote natural resource stewardship and to contribute to coexistence in the Middle East. The intensive program will introduce participants to conservation issues in the Atlantic Region and enable them to begin a dialogue with their North American counterparts. Program dates are May 20 through June 9, 2000 (to be confirmed).

Award: International airfare, food and lodging and in-country travel expenses while participating in the program’s scheduled activities.

Eligibility: Current professional or volunteer position in natural resource stewardship in the Middle East; leadership potential as demonstrated by past work and the ability to use and share the Fellowship experience in one’s work. English will be used throughout the program.

Deadline: February 20, 2000 for notification by April 10.

Collaborative Studies Competition
Program on Global Security and Sustainability
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
140 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60603, USA
Phone: (1-312)726-8000
Fax: (1-312)917-0200
Website: http://www.macfdn.org

Description: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation invites proposals for collaborative research grants on new approaches to governance in the context of rapid globalization. The purpose of this initiative is to foster systematic interdisciplinary inquiry about cooperative arrangements to deal with problems that affect, and are affected by, global processes. Research Topics are welcomed under the following three themes: The Changing Nature of Sovereignty - Consequences for Security and Sustainability; Providing Global Public Goods; and Reconceptualizing Human Rights, Citizenship, and Identity.

Award: The total grant requests from all participating groups in a collaborative project may not exceed $600,000 for the period of the grant. The grant period may not exceed three years. The Foundation can award a separate grant to each institution in a collaborative project.

Eligibility: This initiative is designed to support multidisciplinary collaborations involving more than one policy research group, institute or university. Priority will be given to research teams that include a variety of professional and disciplinary perspectives and that involve researchers from different countries. The Foundation encourages proposals by institutions from developing countries and regions.

Deadline: July 1, 2000 with notification in December.

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
527 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022, USA
Phone: (1-212)644-4907
Fax: (1-212)644-5110
Website: http://www.hfg.org

Description: The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems related to these issues.

Previous grants have been made to study aspects of violence related to youth, family relationships, media effects, intergroup conflict related to religion, ethnicity, and nationalism, and political violence, as well as processes of peace and the control of aggression.

Award: The foundation ordinarily makes awards in the range of US $15,000-$35,000 a year for periods of one or two years.

Eligibility: The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year. Applicants may be citizens of any country. Grants are made to individuals for individual projects and not to institutions.

Deadline: Applications must be received by August 1, for a decision in December.

Middle East Studies Award
The American University in Cairo Press
113 Kasr El Aini, Box 2511
11511 Cairo, EGYPT
Website: http://www.aucegypt.edu/press

Description: The American University in Cairo Press has established this annual award to honor the best unpublished scholarly work in Middle East Studies, broadly defined and focused on contemporary studies of twentieth and twenty-first century developments. The award will be presented every November at the annual conference of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.

Award: The winner will receive a cash prize, a full royalty agreement, and the selected work will be published by the AUC Press within the year following the award presentation.

Eligibility: Original manuscripts in English or other languages are welcome.

Deadline: September 1, 2000.