Institute For Peace And Dialogue (IPD)
Visitor Researcher Program
Basel, Switzerland
Course
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2027
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: The Visitor Researcher Programme offers a 3–12 month visit to refresh academic and organizational research skills. You’ll get weekly supervision, consultation and guidance to develop a project, proposal or research paper, working on‑campus or online. Areas include peacebuilding, conflict resolution, international security, human rights, mediation, leadership and intercultural dialogue. IPD has hosted researchers from multiple countries.
Career Outcomes: You can move into roles as a researcher, policy analyst, trainer/lecturer or consultant in state bodies, INGOs, parliaments, research centers, think tanks and universities, or into project management, monitoring and evaluation, mediation and diversity management across peacebuilding, law and security sectors.
The main aim of the 3-12 Month Visitor Researcher Program is to improve or refresh the academic and organisational research skills of the participants and prepare them for better future educational or professional life. Participating as a visitor researcher could assist you to develop your planned business idea or project proposal or research paper through weekly base supervision, consultation, guidance, and study. VRP Program is a great choice to strengthen the knowledge of researcher to apply for upcoming Ph.D. programs with fresh research skills or to join various institutions as a professional researcher or expert (Various States organisations, INGOs, Parliament, Research Centres, Think Tank Institutions, Universities, and relevant workplaces) or to be professional trainer/lecturer.
Depending on the wish of researchers, participation in the VRP program and working with Supervisor is possible either On-Campus or Online.
Up today IPD hosted researchers from Nigeria, Costa Rica, Switzerland, USA, Cameroon, Thailand, Portugal, Rwanda, China, Nepal, Canada, Mexica, Kyrgyzstan, and Columbia. Please see below some of the written project proposals and research papers of IPD Visitor Researchers.
