Deadline: March 01, 2025
Location(s)
Worldwide
Overview
Every two years the foundation hosts the Young African Scholars program. Ten scholars whose proposed projects are judged to be of high quality and closely relevant to the foundation’s interest in violence and aggression are selected to take part.
Applications for 2025-2026 will open in December 2024.
Details
Violence is widely recognized as a problem in modern society. Americans identify violent crime as a predominant concern, and violent behavior is increasing among our young people. Here and abroad hostility and competition among ethnic groups have taken on a new prominence, and reports of wars from Russia to Rwanda describe a new world order as volatile as ever before, buffeted by animosities that are part of history as well as by violent responses to contemporary inequities.
In too many cases, the tools of conflict resolution, therapy, and diplomacy are not working, but the urgency of each situation seems to demand immediate responses, even responses which experience and good judgment tell us will not be effective. Tough crime bills are passed, more prisons are built, high school classes are devoted to role-playing conflict situations, orphanages are proposed. The United Nations sends peacekeepers into impossible situations where its legitimacy is challenged by all sides. The results of these interventions are unpredictable, and at those rare times when peace breaks out, no one is sure why it happened.
Harry Guggenheim established this foundation to support research on violence, aggression, and dominance because he was convinced that solid, thoughtful, scholarly and scientific research, experimentation, and analysis would in the end accomplish more than the usual solutions impelled by urgency rather than understanding. We do not yet hold the solution to violence, but better analyses, more acute predictions, constructive criticisms, and new, effective ideas will come in time from investigations such as those supported by our grants.
The foundation places a priority on the study of urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world and also encourages related research projects in neuroscience, genetics, animal behavior, the social sciences, history, criminology, and the humanities which illuminate modern human problems.
Grants have been made to study aspects of violence related to youth, family relationships, media effects, crime, biological factors, intergroup conflict related to religion, ethnicity, and nationalism, and political violence deployed in war and sub-state terrorism, as well as processes of peace and the control of aggression.
For further information, please contact the foundation at info@hfg.org.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Application Guidelines
Applicants must be aged 40 or younger, currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program at an African higher-education institution, and living on the continent.
Applications should be no more than ten pages in length and include the following:
- Research proposal no longer than ten (10) pages, including
- Research question
- Literature review
- Description of research methods to be used
- Stage of Ph.D. program (i.e., proposal development, research, or writing)
- Reference letter from official academic advisor
- Budget worksheet and justification
- Two-page C.V.
Dates
Deadline: March 01, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
The program includes a methods workshop, fieldwork research grants of $10,000 USD each, editorial and publication assistance, and sponsorship at an international conference to present research findings.
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.