The African Leadership Centre (ALC) in Kenya has announced a call for applications for African women to apply for the 2011/2012 Peace and Security Fellowship. This Fellowship is an intellectual and financial award to those who have demonstrated obvious or potential capacity to make a change in their field.
From October 2011, the Peace and Security Fellowships for African Women will be delivered by the ALC, Conflict Security and Development Group (CSDG), King’s College London and the Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi. The ALC aims to build a new community of leaders generating cutting edge knowledge on peace, security and development.
The Fellowships bring together African women in the early stages of their careers to undertake a carefully designed training programme in conflict, security and development. This training is followed by an attachment to an African Regional Organisation or a Centre of Excellence to acquire practical experience in the field of peace and security. It is intended that this project will train African women to develop a better understanding of African peace and security issues, in order to increase their participation in conflict management processes and other areas of security concerns for Africans.
The deadline to apply for the fellowship is 31 March 2011. For more information, visit this link.
