Call for Application: ALC Peace, Security and Development Fellowships and Associate Fellowships for 2025/2026

The African Leadership Centre (ALC) is happy to announce a name for functions for its Peace, Security & Development Fellowships and Associate Fellowships for the tutorial yr 2025/2026.

About the ALC

Established in 2010, the African Leadership Centre (ALC) seeks to construct an inter-generational group of transformative leaders producing cutting-edge information that serves as a catalyst for a brand new peace, safety and growth agenda in Africa. To this impact, the Centre produces and deploys multi-dimensional types of information, builds an inter-generational group of worth pushed leaders, facilitates a catalytical ‘public square’ to set a brand new agenda for Africa, and enhances the ALC Hub to supply and handle knowledges. The Centre pursues its imaginative and prescient of constructing an inter-generational group of worth pushed transformative leaders from its bases in Nairobi, Kenya and King’s College, London.

Learn extra about our ALC establishments in Nairobi  here   and at King’s College London here

AFRICAN LEADERSIHP CENTRE FELLOWSHIPS

For the tutorial yr 2025/ 2026, the ALC will provide three varieties of fellowships, particularly:

· Fellowships for African Scholars in Peace, Security and Development;

· Associate Fellowships Bursaries for African Students in Peace, Security and Development (diploma awarding); and

. Bursaries for Associate Fellowships in Global Leadership and Peacebuilding for the Global South (diploma awarding).

1. Fellowships for African Scholars in Peace, Security and Development (diploma awarding):

About this Fellowship

This award is designed for younger African students passionate a few profession in management, safety, and growth, to impression discourse and apply in these areas.

· Spanning eighteen (18) months, this fellowship combines rigorous tutorial analysis, impactful writing, and coverage evaluation on management, safety, and growth points, culminating in a six (6) month attachment at a number one African college, regional group, or centre of excellence on the continent.

· This programme makes use of modalities of studying that combine a grasp’s programme on Global Leadership and Peacebuilding at King’s College London with a uniquely tailor-made mentoring program—comprising quite a few group mentoring periods, simulation practices, one-on-one and peer-to-peer mentoring periods, institutional visits, and attachment.

· Upon completion, fellows emerge with tutorial information, analysis expertise, mentorship coaching, and sensible expertise, related to a community of distinguished African consultants in peace, safety, and growth to take part in setting a brand new peace, safety and growth agenda for Africa.

· This is a completely funded alternative, excluding visa application and processing prices.

Eligibility and Applications

An preferrred candidate for this fellowship is somebody dedicated to the values of the ALC, affiliated with an educational or analysis establishment in Africa, and deeply thinking about advancing tutorial and coverage information in peace, safety, and growth to form safety discourses and practices in Africa and past. Please seek advice from the hooked up doc for eligibility necessities.

Learn extra in regards to the Fellowships for African Scholars in Peace Security and Development (degree-awarding) programme together with the eligibility standards, phases of the programme, phrases and application course of, within the hooked up name for application. To apply for this programme, candidates might want to create an account on the King’s web site here and full all mandatory steps till you submit your application efficiently. When prompted to pick out your programme on the King’s application portal, select Peace & Security Fellowship quite. Do not choose MSc in Global Leadership and Peacebuilding. In addition to making use of to the above Peace and Security Fellowship programme on the King’s system,  candidates must make a separate application via the ALC-Nairobi portal for the fellowship programme here.  This hyperlink will lead you to a registration portal the place you have to first register an account and login to the ALC application system earlier than you see all the knowledge you want in regards to the programme.

2. Associate Fellowships Bursaries for African Students in Peace, Security and Development (diploma awarding)

About this Associate Fellowship

This affiliate fellowship bursary is obtainable to African college students making use of for the MSc Global Leadership and Peacebuilding at King’s College London, for the 2025/26 tutorial yr (starting in September 2025). It is obtainable to college students learning full time solely. The bursary is obtainable to younger Africans who’re pursuing careers in management, safety, and growth.

• Successful candidates will obtain a bursary that covers 25 per cent of the MSc Global Leadership and Peacebuilding tuition charges at King’s College London for the 2025/26 tutorial yr along with 5 thousand kilos (£5,000) as a contribution to their dwelling bills in London.

• This fellowship combines rigorous tutorial analysis, impactful writing, and coverage evaluation on management, safety, and growth points. It makes use of modalities of studying that combine a grasp’s programme on Global Leadership and Peacebuilding at King’s College London with a uniquely tailor-made mentoring programme—comprising quite a few group-mentoring periods, simulation practices, one-on-one and peer-to-peer mentoring periods, institutional visits, and attachment.

• After the MSc programme, Associate Fellows can even have an choice to undertake a paid six-month attachment to a number one African college, regional group, or centre of excellence.

• Upon completion, affiliate fellows emerge with tutorial information, analysis expertise, mentorship coaching, and sensible expertise, related to a community of distinguished African consultants in peace, safety, and growth to propel their careers ahead.

Eligibility and Application

Requirements embody being a scholar from Africa, adherence and dedication to ALC values, and a demonstrated curiosity in management, safety, and growth points. Please seek advice from the hooked up doc for eligibility necessities.

Learn extra in regards to the Fellowships for African Scholars in Peace Security and Development (degree-awarding) programme together with the eligibility standards, phases of the programme, phrases and application course of, within the hooked up name for application. To apply for this programme, candidates might want to create an account on the King’s web site here and full all mandatory steps till you submit your application efficiently. When prompted to pick out your programme on the King’s application portal, select Peace & Security Fellowship quite. Do not choose MSc in Global Leadership and Peacebuilding. In addition to making use of to the above Peace and Security Fellowship programme on the King’s system,  candidates must make a separate application via the ALC-Nairobi portal for the fellowship programme here. This hyperlink will lead you to a registration portal the place you have to first register an account and login to the ALC application system earlier than you see all the knowledge you want in regards to the programme.

3. Bursaries for Associate Fellowships in Global Leadership and Peacebuilding for the Global South (diploma awarding): 

About this Associate Fellowship

This affiliate fellowship bursary is obtainable to college students from the Global South[1] making use of for the MSc Global Leadership and Peacebuilding at King’s College London, for the 2025/26 tutorial yr (starting in September 2025). It is obtainable to college students learning full time solely. The bursary is for college students from the Global South who’re pursuing careers in management, safety, and growth.

• Successful candidates will obtain a bursary that covers 25 per cent of the MSc Global Leadership and Peacebuilding tuition charges at King’s College London for the 2025/26 tutorial yr along with 5 thousand kilos (£5,000) as a contribution to their dwelling bills in London.

• This fellowship combines rigorous tutorial analysis, impactful writing, and coverage evaluation on management, safety, and growth points. It makes use of modalities of studying that combine a grasp’s programme on Global Leadership and Peacebuilding at King’s College London with a uniquely tailor-made mentoring programme—comprising quite a few group-mentoring periods, simulation practices, one-on-one and peer-to-peer mentoring periods, institutional visits, and attachment.

• After the MSc programme, Associate Fellows can even have an choice to undertake a brief internship at a global establishment or regional centre of excellence.

• Upon completion, affiliate fellows emerge with tutorial information, analysis expertise, mentorship coaching, and sensible expertise, related to a community of distinguished consultants in peace, safety, and growth to propel their careers ahead.

Eligibility and Application

Requirements embody being a scholar from the Global South, adherence and dedication to ALC values, and a demonstrated curiosity in management, safety, and growth points. Please seek advice from the hooked up doc for eligibility necessities.

Learn extra in regards to the Fellowships for African Scholars in Peace Security and Development (degree-awarding) programme together with the eligibility standards, phases of the programme, phrases and application course of, within the hooked up name for application. To apply for this programme, candidates might want to create an account on the King’s web site here and full all mandatory steps till you submit your application efficiently. When prompted to pick out your programme on the King’s application portal, select Peace & Security Fellowship quite. Do not choose MSc in Global Leadership and Peacebuilding. In addition to making use of to the above Peace and Security Fellowship programme on the King’s system,  candidates must make a separate application via the ALC-Nairobi portal for the fellowship programme here. This hyperlink will lead you to a registration portal the place you have to first register an account and login to the ALC application system earlier than you see all the knowledge you want in regards to the programme.

The record of Global South nations is obtainable here .