Diplomacy & Diversity Fellowship awarded to King's PhD student

Pelin Ekmen, a Phd student in The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London has been awarded a Diplomacy & Diversity Fellowship by Humanity in Action.

A scholar to the German National Academic Foundation, Pelin graduated with distinction in German law, English law and international law and subsequently travelled to Iraq in preparation for her doctoral thesis. As an undergraduate student, a placement with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia formed her keen interest in post conflict international law. Based around a case study on Iraq her doctoral research examines the legal framework governing the allocation of natural resources in post conflict states. Her research interests lie in war law and state building after violent conflict, as well as in constitutional law and asymmetric state design. Pelin’s lead PhD supervisor is Dr Philippa Webb.

Ms Ekmen said, ‘It is a great honour to have been selected for this scholarship.  I am very much looking forward to what looks like the most rigorous conference program I have ever had the pleasure of attending. The program will bring together people from a broad range of academic interests. Their biographies alone have already been an inspiring read to me and I am excited about the opportunity to interact with such highly achieved fellows.’

The 2015 Diplomacy and Diversity Fellowship will bring together American and European graduate students for an intense and intellectually challenging program on international relations and global diversity in Washington, DC, Berlin, Paris and The Hague from May 29 to June 28, 2015. The 2015 Fellows will meet with influential leaders from governments, multinational corporations, and non-governmental organisations to explore how American and European governments and non-governmental actors are responding to a wide variety of international issues with a focus on issues of pluralism.

Find out more about Humanity in Action and the Fellowship on their website

Information about our PhD programme can be found on King's online prospectus