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Global Challenges Teaching Award - Peace and Democracy

The Global Challenges Teaching Award in Peace and Democracy supports a pair of teaching faculty – one at a US higher education institution (HEI) and one at a UK HEI – to collaboratively deliver a virtual exchange programme exploring themes of peace, democracy and the fight for justice. 

Attacks on democracy threaten the global progress toward peace. 

 

Do you teach an undergraduate class at a US or UK HEI that directly addresses the promotion of democracy, peace, and justice? Discover how this award can help you expand the impact of your teaching by adapting one of your existing courses for co-teaching with an international counterpart. 

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 focuses on promoting peaceful and inclusive societies, ensuring access to justice for all, and fostering inclusive and participatory decision-making and political engagement. Since the launch of the Fulbright Global Challenges Teaching Awards in 2021, there has been a democratic backslide that has seen increasing social division and political violence, repression of human rights and civil liberties, and a lack of trust for democratic institutions, all of which pose a threat to global peace and justice. To address this, we must continue to foster leaders who are compassionate, collaborative, and equipped to address these global challenges.    

The Global Challenges Teaching Award – Peace and Democracy provides a unique opportunity for teaching faculty in the US and UK to co-develop and co-teach a virtual exchange programme that empowers students to explore the intersectional challenges of peace, democracy, and justice, while fostering transformative learning experiences.  

Applications are welcomed from all disciplines that aligns with the UN SDG 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions). Applicants should demonstrate how their proposed module directly addresses the themes of peace, democracy, and/or justice and how it empowers students to tackle these issues.  

 

Priority topics 

We are especially interested in applications that focus on: 

  • Democracy and democratic participation, including rebuilding trust in democratic institutions; addressing threats to democracy; youth engagement and participatory politics; pedagogies for global citizenship and democracy education.
  • Addressing political polarisation, including the impacts of political polarisation on democratic institutions and civic society; identifying and countering disinformation; the impact of digital media and new technologies on disinformation and polarisation. 
  • Peaceful societies, including peacebuilding and reconciliation; advancing human rights and civil liberties; fostering inclusive communities and institutions; ending violence to marginalised groups and communities.
  • Access to justice and just societies, including advancing social justice on local, national and global levels; reducing social inequalities; movements for abolition, reparations, and restorative justice; transformative approaches to justice and society. 

Eligibility requirements

To apply, you must: 

  • Currently teach an undergraduate course that aligns with the promotion of peace, democracy, and justice.
  • Have the support of your home institution to adapt and co-teach this course as a virtual exchange. 

Rather than creating a new course from scratch, applicants will adapt an existing course they currently teach. Co-teaching with your US or UK counterpart will take place virtually. 

Award benefits

A successful application will receive: 

  • Honorarium: $7000/£5510 for the awardee (faculty member). This can be spent however faculty see fit. The honorarium will be paid out in two payments.
  • Institutional support fee: $3000/£2360 for the awardee’s higher education institution, payable upon completion of the professional development programme.
  • Travel funding: Up to $7500/£5900 for the awardee and their institutional team to visit their partner institution in the US or UK.
  • Professional development and mentoring: Professional development and mentoring to support teaching faculty, instructional designer and academic administrators in developing their virtual exchange course and embedding COIL into their institutions.    

Visit our Global Challenges Teaching Awards page