EINEPS Fellowships provide opportunity and professional recognition to researchers whose work and ideas will have longer-term impact on the future of the Ethiopian society. These fellowships often target the spaces between disciplines, where new perspectives emerge and struggle for acceptance, thus ensuring the production of knowledge and expertise on key topics relating to nonviolence education, human rights, conflict resolution, and peace studies. They promote the diversification of knowledge production, strengthening research by ensuring that it remains open to (and challenged by) a range of perspectives, backgrounds, and diverse indigenous solutions.

The EINEPS’ Senior, Associate and Research Fellowships are given to those from the social sciences, humanities, the natural sciences, and relevant professional and practitioner communities. In nearly all cases, fellows share their findings through research and training workshops, which provide occasions for them to test their methods and assumptions and to build the interpersonal networks that can support innovative work over time.

Senior Fellows play an important role in helping to advance understanding on issues related to the nonviolence education, conflict resolution, and peace studies. Senior fellows come from the ranks of outstanding policymakers, scholars, journalists, advocates and other backgrounds. During their term, fellows are integrated into the Institute's ongoing work to enhance its mission and programs.

Associate Fellows  represent a designation for those practitioners who have contributed greatly or demonstrated exceptional potential in the field of conflict resolution, nonviolence education and peace building in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Diaspora as assessed by an EINEPS expert panel. This fellowship include expertise who can create projects that will have a lasting impact and/or develop a curriculum to teach future trainer.

Research Fellows benefit from mentoring opportunities with leading senior researchers in their areas of studies, while mentoring interns in their respective fields. EINEPS fellows engage not only their academic seniors and peers, but also a range of other players, including civic and community organization leaders, advocates, policymakers, and individuals from the private sector.