Funded by the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation, this select group of Middlebury Institute students will focus on the ways that conflict transformation (the development of creative solutions to conflict-based systems and situations) manifests in diverse regions, cultures, contexts, and fields around the globe.
These fellowships and related benefits are available to both in-person and online degree-seeking students at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Please note that the fellowship is only available to students who did not previously participate in the program.
Benefits and opportunities for fellows include the following:
Learn more about our current and past fellows and their conflict transformation projects.
Only new students starting in spring 2024 are eligible for the spring 2024 cohort. Instructions below:
If you have not yet applied to the Middlebury Institute, please follow these steps and then the steps for all students.
Fall 2024 applications will become available in March 2024 with an April 1 application deadline.
Check out our upcoming events and recordings from past events.
If you have questions about applying to the Middlebury Institute degree programs, please contact your enrollment advisor.
For more information about the Conflict Transformation Graduate Fellowship Program, please contact Netta Avineri:
Professor TESOL/TFL, Intercultural Competence Committee Chair, Collaborative in Conflict Transformation Graduate Training in Research Pillar Lead
| by Sierra Abukins
Transforming conflict is at the heart of a seven-year Middlebury initiative that is funding dozens of graduate fellows each year to apply their learning in research and community projects. The first annual event showcased projects and sparked conversation.
| by Kathyrn Petruccelli
In the first trip of its kind since the pandemic, over 60 Institute students and alumni visited Washington, D.C. for Career Week, with a set of them also providing mentorship to 11 Middlebury undergraduates.
| by Stephen Diehl
Human rights and education activist Joseph Kaifala was a Davis United World Colleges Fellow at the Middlebury Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and one of the first Projects for Peace recipients.
