WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The United States Institute of Peace is pleased to announce the selection of its 2001-2002 Peace Scholar dissertation fellows. Ten doctoral students this year will receive a $17,000 fellowship to support research on projects dealing with the prevention, management and peaceful resolution of violent conflicts in Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Balkans, and Northern Ireland.

The 2001 Peace Scholar fellowship recipients represent a diverse array of academic disciplines including history, anthropology, conflict resolution, sociology, and political science in leading universities located across the U.S. Topics under research by the 2001 Peace Scholars include ethnic relations in Colombia, draft resistance during Serbia's wars, human rights violations in Burma, religion and human rights in Guatemala, mediation in West Africa, and historical trauma and postwar reconciliation in China and Japan.

One of the Institute's most competitive programs, this year's winners were selected in a rigorous competition from over 160 applicants from 61 universities in 31 states, the District of Columbia, and 29 foreign countries. The Peace Scholar program is open to doctoral students, regardless of citizenship, enrolled in an American university and working on a dissertation related to the peaceful resolution of international conflict. Peace Scholars are selected by the Institute's Board of Directors based on recommendations by prominent academic experts and practitioners in fields related to international peace and conflict.

Since 1987 the Institute has awarded over 140 Peace Scholar fellowships to students at 48 universities. Former Peace Scholars continue to pursue successful careers in academia, government service, in nongovernmental organizations, and in the media. They represent an international network of experts on the analysis, management, and prevention of conflict.

This is the fourteenth annual Peace Scholar competition sponsored by the Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program of the U.S. Institute of Peace. The program is named in honor of former U.S. Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, a vigorous proponent of the Institute's founding. The Peace Scholar program is part of the Institute's overall congressional mandate to support research, education, and training about peace and conflict in the international arena.

2001-02 Jennings Randolph Peace Scholars
(Listed with Special Project Focus)

• Mr. Mark. F. Davidheiser
  Department of Anthropology
  University of Florida
  Multiculturalism and Peacemaking: Conflict Mediation in the Gambia

• Ms. Tulia G. Falleti
  Department of Political Science
  Northwestern University
  Decentralization Trajectories and Balance of Power in Argentina, Mexico and Colombia 1982-1999

• Mr. Alexandru-Valentin Grigorescu
  Department of Political Science
  University of Pittsburgh
  Transparency and the Impact of International Organizations on Democratic Consolidation

• Mr. Landon E. Hancock
  Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
  George Mason University
  Peace from the People: Identity Salience in the Northern Ireland Peace Process

• Ms. Yinan He
  Department of Political Science
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Overcoming Shadows of the Past: Historical Trauma and Reconciliation in Europe and East Asia

• Mr. Switbert R. Kamazima
  Department of Sociology
  University of Minnesota
  Globalization from Below: Cooperation and Regional Integration along the Tanzania-Uganda Border

• Mr. Curtis W. Lambrecht
  Department of Political Science
  Yale University
  Violence in Burmese State-Making: The Making of a Human Rights Pariah

• Ms. Aleksandra Milicevic
  Department of Sociology
  University of California, Los Angeles
  Joining Serbia's Wars: Volunteers and Draft-Dodgers, 1991-1995

• Ms. Jennifer J. Philpot
  Department of Anthropology
  University of Chicago
  Peace Under Fire: Protestantism, Human Rights and Civil Society in Post-War Guatemala

• Ms. Brett B. Troyan
  Department of History
  Cornell University
  Peace and Ethnic Identity in Southwestern Colombia, 1930-1991

To contact any of the above Peace Scholars please contact Burt Edwards at (202) 429-3878 or by e-mail at usip_requests@usip.org.

The United States Institute of Peace is an independent institution created and funded by Congress to promote research, education, and training on the peaceful resolution of international conflicts.