Research Fellowship in Peace Studies
The Consortium for Peace Studies at the University of Calgary is pleased to announce the fifth Annual Research Fellowship in Peace Studies for 2010-2011. This Fellowship is held at the University of Calgary and can range from two to eight months. A stipend of $6,000 (Canadian) is associated with this Fellowship.
The Consortium for Peace Studies (CPS) at the University of Calgary was established in 2005 by professors, social service and medical professionals, international development practitioners and community peace workers. The primary goal of The Consortium is to promote, encourage and advance peace research and peace work locally and globally. We unite academics, community peace workers, students, peace enthusiasts, community groups and those in the business of peace, with the intention of creating dynamic and comprehensive research that can then be applied to advance peace and transform conflicts in local and international arenas. The University of Calgary considers experience abroad and contact with foreign scholars critical to the development of global awareness and to shaping an international character on campus.
This Fellowship is open to all disciplines so long as the research is directly related to peace studies or conflict transformation.
Fellowship Application Details
2008-09 Research Fellow
Dr. Susan Dente Ross
Professor, English
Washington State University, USAFinal Report
Fellowship with the Consortium for Peace Studies at the University of Calgary
2008-2009
I am very pleased to have served as the 2008-2009 visiting fellow in Peace Studies at the University of Calgary, and I would like to express my profound thanks to Kelly Dowdell (program manger of the Consortium for Peace Studies) and Dr. Maureen Wilson (co-chair of the Consortium for Peace Studies) for their generosity, support, and extremely stimulating discussions during my visit.
The two months of uninterrupted research time supported by the Consortium of Peace Studies enabled me to speak on “The Role of Media in Peace and Conflict Resolution” to Project Ploughshares Calgary as well as to a public forum at the University of Calgary. The audience engagement with my topic, their willingness to share personal experience and expertise, and the abundant evidence of a thriving Calgary community working for peace reinvigorated my own work and provided new questions and avenues for future exploration.
My time working with the Consortium also permitted me to complete a major piece of co-authored research (with Dr. Sevda Alankus, Izmir Economic University) on how the media in North Cyprus undermine peace initiatives there. This work contributes to the developing field of peace journalism and will be a chapter in the forthcoming book Mediation: Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution (2009).
While in Calgary, I also initiated a new study on how journalism’s myths of objectivity and neutrality impede media reform and contribute to media’s continuing service of war-mongering. This work was presented in draft form at the International Freedom of Expression Conference in Oslo, Norway, where I was strongly encouraged to develop it into a book. My time as a Peace Consortium fellow also enabled me to move forward with a co-edited volume (with Dr. Paul Lester, California State University-Fullerton), Images that Injure (3d edition, forthcoming 2010), that explores how the stereotypical visual portrayals so prevalent in the media can be altered to encourage human understanding, respect, and reconciliation. During my fellowship, my presentation on U.S. media discourses of terrorism at an academic conference at Kadir Has University in Istanbul also strengthened my research collaborations with academic colleagues in Greece and Turkey and initiated new partnerships with scholars in Ireland.
For the exquisite gift of time to work and freedom from daily demands, their kind support of my own scholarship, and their help in advancing the cause of peace, I am extremely grateful to the Consortium for Peace Studies, to the University of Calgary, and to all the wonderful people with whom I worked in Calgary. Thank you and pax.
Dr. Susan Dente Ross
Public Address
Openings for Peace/Resistance to News Narratives of War
Limning Terror: Seams in the Discourse of ‘Terrorism’
Past Research Fellowships:
2007-08 Research Fellow, Carlo Aldrovani
2006-07 Research Fellow, Dr. Jim Whitman
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