[ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [balkans] CfP: Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development

[Agron Alibali]

> 
> 
> Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and
> Development announces a
> 
> 
> 
> ROLLING CALL FOR PAPERS
> 
> 
> 
> KIPRED seeks to elicit policy research papers for
> its Policy Research 
> Series from distinguished scholars and
> practitioners.  Papers must be 
> policy oriented and have Kosovar or regional focus.
> 
> Permanent research priorities:
> 
> Performance of Institutions
> 
> Stability; performance; efficiency; political and
> financial accountability; 
> consensus building
> 
> Political Parties
> 
> Inter-party relations; party organizations and
> structures; intra-party 
> relations
> 
> Local Government
> 
> Reform; satisfaction; perceptions; efficiency;
> territorial division and 
> competencies
> 
> Interethnic Relations
> 
> Power sharing arrangements at all levels; main
> problems for minorities; 
> cultural and educational arrangements
> 
> Electoral Systems
> 
> Reform; political effects; cost/benefit
> 
> Security
> 
> Democratic control and accountability; performance
> 
> Foreign Policy
> 
> Relations with its neighbors; Euro-Atlantic
> integration; free-trade agreements
> 
> Temporary areas of research interest:
> 
> -Political process of the status of Kosova:
> Negotiations
> 
> -International missions: analysis; lessons learned.
> 
> Who should apply?
> 
> The applicants should be of high academic standing:
> 
> Minimum Master of Arts
> 
> Language: The papers should be in English or
> Albanian.
> 
> Target audience
> 
> The audience of KIPRED work is the international
> community that deals with 
> the Balkans, the policy and expert community in
> Kosovo and foreign 
> academics that deal with the Balkans or theoretical
> issues of trends 
> present in the Balkans such as international
> trustees, conflict resolution, 
> peace building, transition and related.
> 
> How to apply?
> 
> Prospective authors should send one-to-two page
> abstracts at any time of 
> the year to leon.malazogu at kipred.org as a recent
> Microsoft Word file.
> 
> What should the research proposal contain?
> 
> Prospective authors should send a one-two pages
> description of the project 
> that answers the following questions:
> 
> Whats the main problem that needs to be answered?
> 
> Formulate the problem!
> 
> Number several arguments and examples!
> 
> Delineate an initial hypothesis!
> 
> Describe the methodology to be used!  (Show how you
> will conduct 
> qualitative research and extract sound empirical
> data)
> 
> Identify who the main stakeholders are!
> 
> How does it match the overall strategy and priority
> of KIPRED?
> 
> How relevant is it to Kosovas public policy needs?
> 
> Is it realistic that it will be completed within the
> given time frame?
> 
> Is it realistic that it can be completed with given
> resources and funding?
> 
> Whats the forecasted impact on public life in
> Kosova in general and on 
> specific stakeholders?
> 
> What is the value-added to KIPREDs internal
> capacity?
> 
> A strong focus on public policy recommendations
> 
> Applicants are strongly encouraged to consult
> literature on public policy 
> papers.  KIPRED can make this literature and other
> more detailed guidelines 
> available upon request.
> 
> Time-line
> 
> The project proposal should also present a tentative
> time-line and the 
> author should be ready to respect deadlines tightly.
> 
> Documents to submit
> 
> The proposal must be accompanied by:
> 
> -CV, one paragraph bio, list of previous
> publications
> 
> -A previous writing sample (preferably published)
> 
> Deadline: Rolling throughout the year.  If the
> summary has been approved as 
> an idea, the author is then sent the guidelines for
> completing the 
> publication as well as the contract.
> 
> Resources that we offer
> 
> We would like to inform you that KIPRED, in
> cooperation with ESI (European 
> Stability Initiative) has created a Smart Library,
> an online catalogue of 
> the hard copy resources that we own.  We strongly
> encourage that you make 
> use of this.   The software is finished, though few
> entries have been 
> entered, but this will increasingly get enriched. 
> Please visit 
> www.kipred.org under Smart Library.
> 
> KIPRED can make available a research assistant for
> up to twenty days of 
> field research, data collection, interviewing,
> statistical analysis with 
> SPSS, photocopying, data entry, information
> verification or else.  You may 
> choose a research assistant of you own, however, we
> encourage that you 
> select one from the pool of research assistants that
> KIPRED has been 
> training so far.  Some of them have extensive
> experience is the type of 
> work listed above.
> 
> KIPRED monitors the media for a number of research
> topics, and always 
> enters the topics that have been approved.  In order
> to get this file, 
> please contact us.
> 
> Remuneration
> 
> Apart of the research honorary of up to 1,500 euros,
> which is equivalent to 
> three months of part-time research, please note that
> there is a $500 book 
> allowance dedicated to the research project you are
> undertaking, and we 
> would encourage you to already start looking into
> the books that you will 
> need throughout the duration of the project.  The
> books must be returned to 
> KIPRED at the termination of the project, before the
> final reimbursement is 
> made to you.
> 
> For any other information, please e-mail
> info at kipred.org.  This 
> announcement can also be found at www.kipred.org. 
> 
> 
> 

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