Fellowship: Washington Fellowship for Young Africa Leaders now accepting Applications
The Washington Fellowship is the new flagship program of the President’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). This program will bring over 500 young leaders to the United States each year, beginning in 2014, for leadership training, academic coursework, and mentoring, and will create unique opportunities in Africa to put those new skills to practical use in propelling economic growth and prosperity and strengthening democratic institutions.
DEADLINE: January 27, 2014
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2014 Boren Awards for International Study
Boren Awards provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add important international and language components to their educations.
Boren Scholars and Fellows represent a variety of academic backgrounds, but all are interested in studying less commonly taught languages, including but not limited to Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili. As part of the African Languages Initiative, Boren Award applicants have the opportunity to further their study of Akan/Twi, French, Hausa, Portuguese, Swahili, Wolof, Yoruba, or Zulu. For a complete list of languages, visit our website.
Undergraduate students can receive up to $20,000 for an academic year’s study abroad and graduate students up to $30,000 for language study and international research. In exchange for funding, recipients commit to working in the federal government for a minimum of one year.
DEADLINE: Boren Fellowship: January 28, 2014 ; Boren Scholarship: February 5, 2014
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Accepting applications for African Peacebuilding Network Research Grants
A core component of the APN, the research grants program is a vehicle for enhancing the quality and visibility of independent African peacebuilding research both regionally and globally, while making peacebuilding knowledge accessible to key policymakers and research centers of excellence in Africa and around the world. Grant recipients will produce research-based knowledge that is relevant to, and has a significant impact on, peacebuilding policy and practice on the continent. For its part, the APN will work toward inserting the evidence-based knowledge that this group produces into regional and global debates and policies focusing on peacebuilding.
Support is available for research and analysis on issues such as the following:
- Root causes of conflict and conflict prevention, mediation, management, resolution, and transformation
- Environmental change and conflict
- Post-conflict elections, democratization, and governance
- The relationship between peacebuilding and state building, including state-society relations and state reconstruction
- Transitional justice, reconciliation, and human rights
- Economic and financial dimensions of conflict, peacekeeping, and peace support operations
- Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR)
- Security sector reform (SSR)
- Media, civil society, and peace
- Peace partnerships involving the UN, the AU, Regional Economic Communities (RECs), and civil society
- Gender and peacebuilding
- Peace education and social change
Grants are awarded on a competitive, peer-reviewed basis and are intended to support six months of field-based research, from May to November 2014. Up to ten individual grants of a maximum of $15,000 will be awarded.
During their grant period, grantees are required to participate in two workshops to be held at the African Leadership Centre (ALC) in Nairobi in May and November 2014. These workshops will provide opportunities to refine research focus and methodologies, present findings, explore ways to make work accessible through publications and other means to multiple peacebuilding constituencies, and develop constructive working relationships with other grantees, senior academics, and practitioner facilitators.
DEADLINE: February 1, 2014