Human Rights and Peacebuilding as Dimensions for Strengthening Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Applicants must be researchers with accredited ties to CLACSO Member Centers, which they will demonstrate with a sworn statement. If awarded the scholarship, they must submit a letter of support signed by the highest authority of the center.

• Submissions by collective authors of up to four (4) members will be accepted.

• The formation of the teams must respect gender parity (at least 50% women) and must select one of the members as responsible for the registration of the project.

• Each team must be made up of trained researchers, that is, those who hold a master's degree, doctorate or equivalent and have a proven academic track record and/or researchers in training, that is, those who are pursuing master's or doctoral studies or are up to 35 years of age, in this case with a degree.

• Each researcher or research team may only participate with one proposal in this call.

• If the scholarship is awarded and travel is necessary, the winners will be responsible for covering the costs of medical insurance or similar expenses.

Up to eight (8) group scholarships will be awarded.

The amount of the scholarships awarded will consist of:

• $12.000 for each research team.

The proposed research will be carried out over a maximum period of 10 (ten) months. The grants will be paid in installments via bank transfers made to the principal investigator. It is expected that at least 60% of the grant funds will be used for activities related to gathering and processing the information necessary for the research, which must be reported to CLACSO with supporting documentation.

The winners will work with the support of tutors assigned by CLACSO who will follow the process of their research and results.

CLACSO will publish the final products in print and/or digital media, giving them wide publicity and dissemination through the means it deems appropriate.

The authors will transfer the original publication rights of their works, given that CLACSO adheres to and defends the principles of open science and open access to knowledge, so that the resulting work is easy to find, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. Subsequently, these works may be published in any other medium, always citing the grant received. Grant recipients must inform CLACSO of the subsequent publication of works resulting from the grant work.

• The member centers to which the applicants are linked must not have any outstanding debts in the payment of membership fees corresponding to the year 2020, due on June 30 of the same year.

• Completed research projects will not be accepted. Proposals may be linked to ongoing research processes, but the final works must be original and unpublished products and developed within the period established by the call for proposals.

• Members of the Steering Committee or officials of the CLACSO Executive Secretariat may not participate.

• Proposals from researchers who are currently recipients of research grants, fellowships, or research projects organized by CLACSO will not be accepted. Applications from researchers who have previously received a CLACSO research grant will be accepted, provided that the recipient has fulfilled all obligations in a timely manner.

• Texts written in the four languages ​​commonly used in Latin America and the Caribbean (Spanish, English, Portuguese and French) will be accepted, depending on the country of origin of the proposal.

• In the first stage, the submitted proposals will be reviewed for their formal and administrative aspects to ensure their compliance with the competition rules. Proposals that do not meet the established requirements will be rejected.

• Applications that pass to the next stage will be evaluated by an International Committee composed of experts who will assess the quality and relevance of the proposals, which will be submitted under a pseudonym.

• The Call may be declared void or a smaller number of scholarship recipients may be selected, if the proposals submitted do not meet the required quality and consistency.

• Situations not covered in this document will be resolved by the convening institution.

• The ruling will be final.

• The research projects will develop their work plan between October 2021 and July 2022. This plan will be implemented under the facilitation of tutors assigned by CLACSO.

• The progress and final reports submitted by the scholarship recipients will be reviewed by the tutors.

• In their final version, the research papers submitted as a result should be between 12.000 and 15.000 words in length (excluding appendices and bibliography), written in Times New Roman 12-point font, single-spaced. This is an approximate guideline, and CLACSO reserves the right to make adjustments or exceptions if deemed necessary.

• The structure of the text will be free, respecting the conventions of presentation of an academic text and the editorial standards of CLACSO, in addition to APA + GENRE.

• In addition, each team must submit a Guidelines for Action Document, containing inputs and recommendations for public policies and social intervention on the topics investigated.

• Texts written in the four languages ​​commonly used in Latin America and the Caribbean (Spanish, English, Portuguese and French) will be accepted, depending on the country of origin of the proposal.

It is mandatory that the submission be made through the online registration system provided by CLACSO. Printed submissions and submissions sent by email will not be accepted. It is recommended to access the online system to review the registration form.

1. Visit the CLACSO website www.clacso.org . The online registration system will be available starting Monday, June 28, 2021.

2. Register in the CLACSO Single Registration System (SUIC). The generated username and password will be required each time you wish to access the system to consult, modify, add, or submit information for this or any other CLACSO activity. Applicants submitting collective proposals must designate one of the authors as responsible for registration. This same person will receive the corresponding monetary award if the proposal is selected by the Jury.

3. Identify the proposal by indicating its title and the pseudonym of the applicant(s). Applications with pseudonyms that correspond to the applicant's first and/or last name will not be accepted. Once the corresponding fields are completed, the system will enable the uploading of the following data.

4. Applicants must complete the sworn statement on the registration form indicating their affiliation with a Member Center belonging to the CLACSO network. The list of member centers can be found at: https://www.clacso.org/institucional/centros-asociados/.

5. Complete the personal and academic data form and attach the curriculum vitae in free format; the digital copy of the identity document, passport or ID card; the digital copy of the highest academic degree obtained (or proof of degree in process) and the photograph.

6. The proposal must be uploaded to the form that appears once the personal and academic data has been completed.

7. Once registration is closed, the system will produce an electronic certificate of receipt that will serve as proof.