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Doctoral Research Fellowship on the Effectiveness of Non-Violence
News - 22. April 2012

Doctoral Research Fellowship on the Effectiveness of Non-Violence

The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is announcing a PhD fellowship financed as part of a Grant from the Research Council of Norway for a project on “Effective Non-Violence? Resistance Strategies and Political Outcomes” led by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch of the University of Essex & PRIO. The project seeks to understand the conditions that foster the use of non-violent as opposed to violent tactics, focusing on the interaction between specific characteristics of different organizations, their constituencies, the state, and external actors.

Applications deadline 31 May 2012.

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