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Democracy Institute, OSUN Forum
Call for Applications: OSUN Forum on Democracy and Development Post-doctoral & Senior Research Fellowships
Deadline Expired on February 15, 2024
The OSUN Forum on Democracy and Development, a partnership of CEU Democracy Institute (Budapest), Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá), Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town, and the Social Scientists’ Association of Sri Lanka (Colombo), invites applications for a total of 32 open positions: six post-doctoral and two senior research fellows at each of the four institutions for an 8-month residential fellowship program between October 1, 2024, and May 30, 2025.
The initiative aims to redefine democracy in its political, social, and economic dimensions, establishing a unique platform for interdisciplinary and cross-regional exchanges between scholars from the Global South and Global North.
The
OSUN Forum on Democracy and Development
is structured around four interlinked research themes hosted at four institutions:
Theme 1:
"New patterns of mobilization for and against democracy," hosted at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia
Theme 2:
"Populism, ideology, and discourse in the Global South: sources of polarization and their mitigation," hosted at CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest, Hungary
Theme 3:
"Democratizing the developmental state," hosted at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance in Cape Town, South Africa
Theme 4:
"Exclusionary regimes and autocratization," hosted at the Social Scientists’ Association in Colombo, Sri Lanka
The preliminary deadline to apply is Thursday, February 15
Learn more and submit for each fellowship
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