The Department of Internal Affairs: Trust & Fellowship Grants - The Peace and Disarmament Trust (PADET)


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The Peace and Disarmament Education Trust (PADET)

Purpose
Key information
Background to the Trust
Trust guidelines
Eligibility requirements
How to apply
Further information
Contact details

Purpose

The objective of the Peace and Disarmament Education Trust (PADET) is to "advance education and thereby promote international peace, arms control and disarmament."

Key information

The Trust makes two types of payments: project grants and PADET scholarships.

Most project grants are for amounts less than $5000. Project applications close twice a year: on 31 May and 30 September.

PADET scholarships are designed to support appropriate postgraduate research by Masters and Doctoral students at New Zealand universities. Anyone who is, or intends to enrol as, a postgraduate degree student pursuing research of interest to PADET, may apply for a scholarship.

Scholarships are awarded in two categories, adapted to the candidate's circumstances:

up to $14,000 for a full year's work for a master's thesis
up to $21,000 each year for up to two years for a doctoral thesis.

Scholarship applications close on 30 September each year.

Background to the Trust

PADET was established, as a charitable trust, by Trust Deed by the New Zealand Government in 1988. The money for the Trust, $1.5million, was received from the French Government in recognition of the events surrounding the destruction of the Rainbow Warrior vessel in 1985.

Each year, the Trust distributes most of the interest accrued to appropriate projects.

Trust guidelines

Applications are considered by the Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control (PACDAC), who make recommendations to the Trustee (the Secretary for Internal Affairs), for final selection.

Eligibility requirements

Applicants must be New Zealand residents and be enrolled in a PhD or MA degree course of full study at a New Zealand university during the period for which the scholarship is sought.
Applicants must undertake:

to conduct research for, and write, a doctoral or masters thesis
to submit one copy of the completed thesis to PACDAC
to grant permission to PACDAC to publish and distribute parts or all of the work.

PACDAC would appreciate input into the editing of the final draft of the completed work for publication, if requested. None of these undertakings is to infringe the academic freedom of the applicant or prejudice the relationship of the applicant with academic supervisors.

Applicants must undertake to work on a theme of concern to PACDAC within the terms of reference of the PADET Trust as indicated above.

Preference will also be given to topics relevant to current New Zealand disarmament and arms control policy.

Possible topic areas for scholarship

Proliferation Control Regimes: Including, but not necessarily limited to, the politics, law, economics, administration, and science of arms and weapons data development, production, deployment, and transfers, and assessment of policies designed to restrain them, with regard to all categories of weapons platforms and warheads, including especially chemical, biological, and nuclear devices and long-range missile components.

Arms Control Negotiations: Including, but not necessarily limited to, the record, process, opportunities, and limits of inter-governmental organisations and forums in negotiating and administering arms agreements, including START, NPT, CTBT and MTCR, and multilateral weapons-free area agreements such as SPNZF and the Antarctic Treaty..

PACDAC has identified two areas of research it is particularly interested in receiving PADET or scholarship applications for. These are:

opportunities for New Zealand to advance nuclear disarmament at the United Nations
small arms proliferation and gun violence especially in the Pacific and South East Asia.

Other topics will be considered where candidates can present arguments justifying the relevance of their work in terms of the objects of PADET, which are to advance education and thereby to promote international peace, arms control and disarmament; and the resolution of international conflict.

Scholarships will be awarded in two categories, adapted to the candidate's circumstances:

up to $14,000 for a full year's work for a master's thesis
up to $21,000 each year for up to three years for a doctoral thesis.

How to apply

The Peace and Disarmament Education Trust project and scholarship application forms are currently being updated and will be available in early 2010. For more information, please contact trusts@dia.govt.nz.

Further information

Annual Report

Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2008 (.pdf) 31.9k*
Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2009 (.pdf) 38.6k*

*These documents are in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. You need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. You can download a free version from the Adobe website.

PACDAC Public Advisory Committee members

The members of the Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control are:

Deborah Morris-Travers (Deputy Chair)
Richard Randerson
Mary Wareham
Richard Northey
David Capie
Alyn Ware
James Veitch
Graham Fortune

PACDAC Statement - 07 May 2009

The Public Advisory Committee on Disarmament and Arms Control (PACDAC) met in Wellington on 7 May to discuss policy issues and the administration of the Peace and Disarmament Education Trust (PADET).

PACDAC member Alyn Ware and former PACDAC member Kate Dewes called into the meeting from New York to brief the committee on progress at the Third Prep Com of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The committee discussed opportunities for New Zealand to promote nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation through the NPT and other fora. The committee sought an update on New Zealand’s progress to ratify the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions and encouraged the government to send a high-level delegation to the Second Review Conference of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, which opens in Cartagena, Colombia on 30 November 2009.

PACDAC also discussed a range of issues relating to the administration of PADET, including the application process, criteria for grant-making, and ways to publicise the fund's availability. The meeting concluded with the committee's first meeting with Hon Georgina te Heuheu , Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control, to discuss her disarmament priorities.

The next PACDAC meeting in July 2009 will consider grant applications.

Contact details

Trust Advisor
Peace and Disarmament Education Trust
Crown Funding & Trusts Team
Local Government and Community Branch
The Department of Internal Affairs
PO Box 805
WELLINGTON 6140

Physical address:
The Department of Internal Affairs
46 Waring Taylor Street
WELLINGTON 6140

Phone: 0800 824 824 (between 8am and 5pm Monday to Friday)
Email: trusts@dia.govt.nz


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