CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Peace and Security Fellowship for African Women

The African Leadership Centre (ALC) was established in Kenya in June 2010 as a joint initiative of King's College London and the University of Nairobi. The ALC is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Peace and Security Fellowship for African Women for 2011/2012. This Fellowship is an intellectual and financial award to those who have demonstrated obvious or potential capacity to make a change in their field. Please note that the Fellowship does not lead to an academic qualification, rather it is a postgraduate non-degree programme. 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. To this end, the ALC undertakes to do the following:
 Create an enabling environment for ideas that are grounded in African realities;
 Provide space for interaction with role models;
 Build capacity for independent thinking;
 Expand the knowledge base to develop transformational ideas that can be developed to create visions of change;
 Create opportunities to transfer knowledge to achieve multiplier effects for communities;
 Connect with processes nationally, regionally and globally, especially in the field of peace and security; and
 Build lasting partnerships that will maintain an African-led vision of change.

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.