The Claude Ake Visiting Chair 2014: Invitation to apply for two positions!

The Department of Peace and Conflict Research and the Nordic Africa Institute currently invite applications to the Claude Ake Visiting
Chair for 2014. As a novelty for year 2014, we invite applications for two different positions:

*   One Visiting Chair for a more senior professor, in line with previous holders of the Chair. Applicants for this position should be
established and internationally recognised senior scholars with professorial competence in their respective fields of expertise.
Normally, this translates to so-called Full Professors or Associate Professors, or their equivalence.
*   One Visiting Fellowship for a junior faculty, who holds a Ph.D. degree in a relevant field, and has showed promising results.
Normally, this translates into an Assistant Professor, or its equivalence.

The visiting time period is normally a minimum of two months and maximum of three months (90 days). A stay for up to 6 months (one full
academic semester) may be negotiable, depending on incurred costs.  Applications from female candidates are encouraged.
The visiting chair holder is offered a conducive environment to pursue his or her own research, while there is also opportunity for
lecturing, holding seminars and contributing to ongoing research activities at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research and the
Nordic Africa Institute.
Final date for applications is November 15, 2013. For more information about the content of the application and the Claude Ake Chair, please
see attached flyer and: http://www.pcr.uu.se/collaboration/claudeakevisitingchair/
Claude Ake 2014 flyer

The Claude Ake Visiting Chair was set up in 2003 at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University (DPCR), in
collaboration with the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) and with funding from the Swedish Government. The Chair honours the memory of Professor
Claude Ake, a distinguished scholar, philosopher, teacher and humanist, who died tragically in 1996. The Chair is intended for
scholars who, like Claude Ake, combine a profound commitment to scholarship with a strong advocacy for social justice. The Chair is
open to prominent social scientists working at African universities with problems related to war, peace, conflict resolution, human rights, democracy and development on the African continent.