4 PhD Positions, Ghent University, Belgium (2019)

We are seeking to fill four full-time, 40-months, fully-funded PhD fellowships as part of the ERC-funded research project "Righting Victim Participation in Transitional Justice" (ERC-2018-STG- 804154). You will primarily be based at the Human Rights Center at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.

The research project is a multi-disciplinary and multi-method study of the effects of victim participation in transitional justice processes. It studies the long-term (and often unforeseen) effects of this participation on victims and victim communities by analyzing how their perceptions of justice and of what their rights are change in response to their participation in transitional justice processes. The cases under consideration are Cambodia, the DRC, Tunisia and Guatemala. The aim is to map best practices that allow for more victim-oriented approaches to and understandings of transitional justice processes.

The project methodology requires that the PhD candidates spend about three months per year in the - post-conflict- country they are studying, to engage in participant observation, carry out interviews, collect documents, do focus groups and set up experimental designs.

We are looking for mature PhD candidates, ideally speaking with a research degree; and/or experience of doing fieldwork in one of these countries or in other post-conflict settings; and/or who speak one or more of the local languages of the case studies.

Our working language is English.

Profile of the candidate

In order to be eligible, applicants must
- hold a master's degree in law, social and political sciences, anthropology or a related discipline;
- have obtained their degree at the time of application or demonstrate convincingly that they will have that degree in hand by July 1, 2019;
- be fluent in English as their working language and as their primary publication language
- spend longer periods of time abroad for fieldwork and participate in international conferences

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4 PhD Positions, Ghent University, Belgium (2019)