1. Fast & High Impact (Quick Support)
- Scholarships and stipends
- fund tuition, living, and research travel
- Emergency or hardship grants
- rapid-response support for crises
- Digital resources
- access to journals, databases, online training
- Mentorship programs
- match students with experienced researchers
- Community engagement funds
- connect faculty members and students with local/refugee communities
2. Fast & Medium Impact (Quick Support)
- Language & translation support
- translate Burmese, ethnic languages, and English work
- Equipment & material grants
- desktop computers, laptop computers, software, field tools, such as Atlas.ti, Maxqda, SPSS, NVivo, etc.
3. Moderate/Slow & High Impact (Strategic / Long-Term)
- Research grants
- small grants for fieldwork, pilot studies, publications
- Seed project funding
- micro-grants for small-scale peace, culture, or religion initiatives
- Capacity building
- training in research methods, project management, intercultural communication
- Trainings in International Human Rights Laws and International Humanitarian Law
- In-House International Summer School on Religion, Culture, and Peace Education: fund international and local travel, registration, room and board, resource persons, field visits
- Conference support: fund travel, registration, presentations, and publications
- Internship sponsorship: place students in NGOs, peace initiatives, or cultural institutions
- Networking & exchange programs
- short-term exchanges with universities and think tanks
- Joint publications & collaborations
- co-author research between students and faculty
- Interdisciplinary research funding
- combine peace studies, religion, and culture
- Collaborative workshops
- sponsor joint workshops with local communities
- Publication support
- fund open-access, translation, dissemination of research outputs, support staff
- Public engagement & advocacy
- social media handles, exhibitions, talks, podcasts, community dialogues
- Monitoring & evaluation support
- provide tools and consultancy to measure impact and sustainability
4. Slow & Medium Impact (Long-Term Support)
- Alumni funding initiatives
- engage former students as mentors or donors
AFSC Goals & Proposed University DPS RCP Lab Projects (2026-2028)
Publishable Research Papers as Additional Deliverables
| AFSC Strategic Goal | Collaborative & Action-Oriented Lab Projects |
| 1. Just & Sustainable Peace | 1.1 Youth Training for Justice and Sustainable Peace: Co-develop and deliver contextualized training modules on interfaith mediation and nonviolent communication for youth leaders in cooperation with community members. 1.2 Community Storytelling: Produce digital archives of peace storytelling across faiths with students, faculty, and community members. |
| 2. Just Economies | 2.1 Co-host “Ethical Political Economy” community workshops with community members, synthesizing religious and cultural outlooks on well-being and justice. 2.2 Partnership Research: Faculty and students partner with community members on ethnographic research and publication on the religious and cultural components of economic marginalization. |
| 3. Just Responses to Displacement & Migration | 3.1 Practitioner Support Hub: Organize exchanges and host events to connect faculty and students with people on the move themselves (such as displaced persons, refugees, stateless people, and migrant workers) and NGOs serving migrants, offering curricular support and conducting research for publication. 3.2 Migrant Story Archive: Collaborate with migrants and groups to develop the digital storytelling archive to document and share narratives of displacement, resilience, and belonging. |
PARTNERSHIPS
| Methods | Concrete Actions |
| Convene | The Lab hosts academic-practitioner exchanges, community workshops, and storytelling events. |
| Organize | Training modules and curricular support directly strengthen the capacity of civil society and youth organizers. |
| Advocacy | Ethnographic research and digital story telling archives provide localized evidence and narratives for advocacy. |
| Research | Focus shifts to participatory action research and ethnographic documentation that serves community partners’ immediate needs. |