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The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the University of the South Pacific (USP) with the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), are calling for applications from young scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and others from the South Pacific who are working in the field of climate change and disaster risk reduction to participate in a writeshop from 10-14 October 2011 in Suva, Fiji. The writeshop will be hosted by SPREP and USP. Through the writeshop, participants will produce a peer review quality publishable article and they will gain enhanced awareness of the process of writing papers for academic journals. These skills will allow their work to be incorporated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other high-level scientific bodies and consequently inform policy making on key issues of risk and climate.

The writeshop will involve one-on-one work with facilitators to provide supplemental training on academic writing and argumentation, in order to help new authors reach a standard of writing suitable for publication in peer-reviewed journals. Sixteen participants will be selected.

Please note that the writeshop will be held in English. Be aware that the writeshop is not a training on adaptation and disaster risk reduction subject areas – we expect you to already have those skills.