Applications are now open for the 2024/2025 African Leadership Center (ALC) Fellowships for African Women in Leadership and Peacebuilding
The ALC Fellowship programmes seek to produce high performing graduates with identifiable leadership characteristics and skills, who generate cutting-edge research on peace, security and development and participate in institutional, national and regional networks to train and mentor the next generation of African academics.
This fellowship is available to young African women, particularly from conflict-affected contexts, interested in pursuing research, policy and practice careers in the field/s of peace, security and development and with an emphasis on leadership. It includes post-graduate study at King’s College London on the MSc Global Leadership and Peacebuilding programme and a uniquely tailored mentoring programme. During the fellowship, fellows contribute to the African Leadership Centre’s ten-year research agenda entitled “Peace, Society and the State in Africa.”
Eligibility
- Candidates must be female citizens of African countries.
- Successful candidates must hold valid travel documents prior to acceptance.
- Candidates must hold a master’s or bachelor’s degree and added experiences in peace, security and development field is valued.
- Candidates must have knowledge of, or experience with women’s rights, gender and development issues.
- Candidates must be able to demonstrate a commitment to contribute to work on peace, security and development in Africa.
- Candidates must be able to demonstrate the capacity to undertake research on issues relating to peace, security and development in Africa.
- Candidates must demonstrate commitment to the core values of the programme: Promoting African led ideas and processes of Change; Independent thinking; Integrity; Pursuit of Excellence; Recognition of Youth Agency and Respect for diversity in all its forms.
- Candidates must have a demonstrable plan for how to utilise knowledge gained in the Fellowship upon return to their countries and/ or organisations.
- Candidates must be fluent in spoken and written English as all aspects of the programme are delivered in English.
Application Procedure:
- To apply for this programme, applicants will need to create an account on the King’s website here and apply under the Peace and Security Fellowship Programme.
- Besides applying to the above MSc programme, applicants need to make a separate application for the fellowship programme here.
