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Applications open for fully-funded ECRC White Rose DPT Collaborative Studentship on UK Mass Atrocity Prevention

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Applications are open for a fully-funded ECRC White Rose DPT Collaborative Studentship on UK Mass Atrocity Prevention. DEADLINE: 15 March, 2019.

The online application form can be found here

Project: UK Mass Atrocity Prevention

This studentship is in collaboration with Aegis Trust

In April 2018, the UK Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) launched an inquiry into the Government’s approach to mass atrocity prevention. This followed four previous inquiries into the UK’s role in relation to mass violence in Myanmar, Libya, Syria, and Iraq. In September 2018 the FAC published its report ‘Global Britain: The Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Intervention’ calling for ‘a cross- Government mass atrocity strategy that can help identify areas of high risk at an early stage’.

The collaborative project has been developed with Aegis Trust who are an NGO (established in 2000) working to prevent mass atrocity crimes around the world. The student will be based in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds and will play an active role in the European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect which is also based at the University of Leeds.

The studentship will develop the first UK cross-government strategy toward mass atrocity prevention (defined as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, or ethnic cleansing). To date, there are a small number of policy reports on UK and EU mass atrocity prevention but no in-depth academic study on the former. The project will involve i) a cross-departmental analysis to identify obstacles hindering the UK government’s current approach ii) investigate whether mass atrocity indicators can be incorporated into the Government’s integrated approach to conflict prevention ii) learn lessons from non-UK approaches such as the US Atrocity Prevention Board (2011), UN Atrocity Prevention Strategy (2014) and EU Atrocity Prevention Strategy (2018), and v) compare and contrast qualitative and quantitative approaches toward predicting mass violence.

Awards provide fees and maintenance at standard Research Council Rates (£14,777 in Session 2018/19) for eligible applicants.

Further information on the application procedure can be found here 

For more information on the project, please contact Dr Adrian Gallagher (a.gallagher@leeds.ac.uk)