Our Awards
The SNIS is pleased to support current and future leading researchers in the field of international studies through its different awards and stipends.
SNIS Award for International Studies
The SNIS Award is a prize for the best PhD thesis in international studies. The thesis must be in the domain of international studies and its findings must be relevant for / applicable to the work of International Organisations.
International
Geneva Award
The IG Award is a prize for high-quality, policy-relevant academic papers. The papers must be in the domain of international studies and their findings must be relevant for / applicable to the work of International Organisations.
Award winners 2024
Winner
Abhimanyu GEORGE JAIN
Fig Leaf: A Critical Analysis of the Law of Targeting
Award winners 2023
Winner
Tanja Schweinberger
The Return of International Politics – Cooperation and Conflict in U.S-China Trade Relations
Winner
Kiri Olivia Santer
Bordering Responsibility: The Unaccountable Politics of Migration Control in the Central Mediterranean
Award winners 2022
Winner
Lena Holzer
The Binary Gendering of Individuals in International Law: A Plurality of Assembled Norms and Productive Powers of the Legal Registration of Gender
Winner
Christelle Molima
La Question de la Responsabilité Pénale des Enfants Soldats dans le Contexte de leur Réinsertion Socio-Communautaire. Etude de Cas dans l’Est de la République Démocratique du Congo
Award winners 2021
Winner
Yira Carmiña Lazala-Silva Hernández
Yira Carmiña Lazala-Silva Hernández
From Home Gardens to the Palais des Nations. Translocal Action for Rural Women’s Right to Land and Territory in Nariño – Colombia
Winner
Livio Silva-Muller
Following green money, following green people in the Brazilian Amazon
Winner
Shriya Patnaik
The Minority Question: A Critical Analysis of Gender, Human Rights, and Women’s Reform Projects in Colonial and Postcolonial India Through the Figure of the ‘Mahari Devadasi’
Winner
Lukas Paul Fesenfeld
Lukas Paul Fesenfeld
The Political Feasibility of Transformative Climate Policy – Public Opinion about Transforming Food and Transport Systems
Winner
Philippe Le Billon, Mary Menton, José Aylwin, Peter Bille Larsen, Jörg Balsiger, David Boyd, Michel Forst, Fran Lambrick, Claudelice Santos, Hannah Storey, Susan Wilding
Understanding and responding to the environmental human rights defenders crisis: The case for conservation action
Award winners 2020
Winner
Nils Redeker
The Politics of Too Much: Essays on the Emergence and Persistence of Current-Account Surpluses.
Winner
Anna Wyss
