Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Migration/Refugee Studies bicc - Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies gGmbH in Germany

bicc, the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies, is offering a full-time postdoctoral position for the RE-CONNECT+ project in Bonn, Germany. The institute is an independent international research centre focused on the conditions, dynamics, and consequences of violent conflict, combining academic research with policy advice. The project examines how women and youth contribute to peacebuilding and social reconstruction in conflict-affected, war-affected, and displacement contexts. RE-CONN...

📢 The Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Resource Worlds” at the University of Kassel is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in the social sciences. The position is embedded in the interdisciplinary and international project “Käte Hamburger Kolleg Rohstoffwelten – Kulturen im Umbruch” and focuses on resource practices , resource politics , and related questions in the humanities and social sciences. The successful candidate will develop an independent research project while also contributing to the Kolleg’s in...

PhD position at the University of Zurich , Department of Geography, in the Political Geography Group on Pastoralist Futures: Land Transformation in East Africa's Drylands . The project examines the longue durée of pastoralist land transformation at the intersection of climate change , state intervention, capitalist practices, land-use and land-cover change, property regimes, and pastoralist agency. The dissertation will focus on pastoralist territories in Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya . T...

The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) is recruiting a fully funded postdoc for the project Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: Uncovering Scorched Earth Tactics Through Remote Sensing (FIRES) . The position is based in Copenhagen, Denmark , and starts on 1 March 2027 or shortly thereafter. This postdoc focuses on qualitative research on the logics of destruction in civil war . The successful candidate will design and conduct an ethnographically grounded case study on the deliberat...

Constructor University is advertising a three-year PhD position in Higher Education for Peace and Conflict Resolution . The project sits at the intersection of Higher Education Studies , Education , Sociology , Political Science , Peace & Conflict Studies , and Social/Political Psychology . The research focus is on how universities develop peace education and constructive conflict resolution (CCR) skills across teaching, student life, and institutional structures, and how higher education can fo...