The Drugs, Security and Democracy (DSD) fellowship program supports research on organized crime, drug policy, issues of governance, and associated topics across the social sciences and related disciplines. The fellowship seeks to develop a concentration of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant outcomes and membership in a global interdisciplinary network.

FELLOWSHIP RESEARCH AGENDA

DSD-funded research must address the relationship among at least two of the following three  themes:

1. Drugs -- Potential topics include, but are not limited to, international and regional drug policy, drug trafficking, organized crime, drug production, and impact on communities including youth delinquency and gangs.
2. Security -- Potential topics include, but are not limited to, issues of traditional and non-traditional security, public safety, the pluralization of security actors, the role of law enforcement, the accountability of police forces, formal and informal strategies to increase security, violence, instability, immigration and border security.
3. Democracy -- Potential topics include, but are not limited to, issues of governance, state responses to organized violence, civil society networks and how they mobilize against organized crime and drugs, the framing of incentives to develop appropriate policies, freedom of the press, impunity, corruption, and the relationship between state and non-state actors.

Examples of possible research topics that address the relationship among two of the three themes include: substance control in border regions, violence and electoral campaigns, human rights and security policy, and media and violence and global drug flows.

Deadline: 20 January 2012

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