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Global Challenges Teaching Award - Peace and Justice

The Global Challenges Teaching Award in Peace and Justice 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, justice, and inclusivity. 

Violent conflict and injustice threaten the global path to peace. 

Do you teach an undergraduate class at a US or UK HEI that directly addresses the promotion of just, peaceful, and inclusive societies? 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 building accountable, inclusive institutions in government and civil society. Since the launch of the Fulbright Global Challenges Teaching Awards in 2021, the persistence of violent conflicts, growing social inequalities, and divisions have only increased the urgency to foster leaders who are compassionate, collaborative, and equipped to address these global challenges.    

The Global Challenges Teaching Award – Peace and Justice 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, justice, and inclusivity, while fostering transformative learning experiences.  

Applications are welcomed from all disciplines that align with the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions).

Applicants should outline how their proposed module directly addresses the challenges of achieving a just, peaceful, and inclusive society, and how it empowers students to address the wide-ranging and intersectional impacts of conflict and inequality.

Priority Topics

We are particularly interested in applications that explore...

  • Peace and conflict, including peace education, conflict resolution and transformation, and comparative approaches to conflict and social justice
  • Inclusive societies, exploring human rights and reducing social inequalities, social justice on local, national, and global levels, and fostering inclusive communities and institutions
  • Equal access to justice, addressing historical and contemporary legacies of discrimination within the criminal justice system, incarceration, abolition and restorative justice, and the role of law in achieving a just society

Eligibility Requirements

To apply, you must: 

  • Currently teach an undergraduate course that aligns with the promotion of peace, justice, and inclusivity. 
  • 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 one administrative staff member to visit their partner institution in the US or UK.
  • Professional Development and Mentoring: Tailored COIL-modelled blended professional development and customized mentoring led by VE/COIL experts from AAC&U, designed for teaching faculty, instructional designers, and academic administrators.    

Visit our Global Challenges Teaching Awards page

to find out how to apply.

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