Stillingstittel:
Professor in Critical Peace and Conflict Studies at the Centre for Peace Studies (CPS)

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
Jobbnorge ID: 122690

Application deadline: 20. March 2016

Ref. no 2016/1262

 

One position as Full Professor in Critical Peace and Conflict Studies is available at the Centre for Peace Studies at the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway (UiT).

 

For further information about the position, please, contact:

Director Christine Smith-Simonsen, +47 77 64 67 61, christine.smith-simonsen (at) uit.no  

 

Affiliation

CPS is part of the HSL-Faculty. Its activities revolve around three main components: research, outreach and education. Currently, the Centre has 11 positions, whereof four are administrative. The English-taught and interdisciplinary two-year Master's programme in Peace and Conflict Transformation (MPCT) was launched in 2002. It is the first of its kind in Norway, and provides the opportunity to study non-violent forms of handling conflicts. MPCT recruits students from all over the world, fostering cross-cultural competencies. Every fall semester, the programme admits up to 29 students. CPS is involved in various research projects as well as a number of institutional partnerships. Among our partners are universities and research institutions in Russia (Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Petrozavodsk), Eurasia (Bishkek, Tbilisi, Odessa, Kiev), Germany (Hamburg), Sweden (Umeå) and Japan (Tokyo). Furthermore, CPS frequently engages in outreach activities in collaboration with relevant institutions and civil society organizations.

 

For more detailed information, please see: www.peace.uit.no

 

The position's field of research, other duties and working conditions

Critical Peace and Conflict Studies is concerned with interdisciplinary and novel theoretical and empirical understandings of peace and conflict dynamics. It promotes critique of the conventional debates about the nature of conflict and peace formation. In particular, Critical Peace and Conflict Studies conceptualizes peace as something more than the restoration or maintenance of stability and order and acknowledges the potentially constructive role of conflict in dealing with issues of emancipation, equality and social justice. Furthermore, to understand how local actors and transformed structures can contribute to a more sustainable peace, it interrogates concepts such as critical localism, hybrid and post-liberal peace, local peace infrastructures, and alternative, bottom-up and grassroots peacebuilding.

 

The Full Professor is expected to develop and contribute to this field both through research projects and by taking an active role in the further strengthening of the centre's educational activities. Thus, the position's workload is two-fold: one part shall be dedicated to research and research administration, the other part to teaching, supervision and other MPCT-related duties. In terms of teaching in particular, the Full Professor is expected to contribute on the themes of history and contemporary dynamics of state-building, international political economy, in addition to critical peace and conflict theories.

 

The appointed Full Professor must reside/take up residence in Tromsø, have her/his daily workplace at the UiT Centre for Peace Studies, and be willing to engage her/himself in the ongoing development of Critical Peace and Conflict Studies, the Centre for Peace Studies, and UiT as a whole.

 

For the positions Professor and Associate Professor, the following norm is used for working time: As a general principle, all employees in such positions are expected to use as much working time for teaching as for R&D

Minstelønn: 0

Maksimal lønn: 0

Arbeidsgiver Navn: UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Arbeidsgiver adresse: 9037 TROMSØ

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Troms

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år