Yale Peace Fellowship 2026 for Emerging Leaders (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: September 2, 2025

Applications are open for the Yale Peace Fellowship 2026. The Yale Peace Fellowship, hosted by the International Leadership Center (ILC) at Yale University, brings collectively 16 rising leaders annually who’re engaged on the frontlines of battle prevention, peacebuilding, and put up-battle reconciliation. Fellows come from a spread {of professional} backgrounds—together with civil society, diplomacy, politics, faith, and social enterprise—and are chosen for their demonstrated influence and dedication to succeed in their full potential as peace leaders.

The program offers:

• Structured time to mirror on the character of contemporary battle
• Training in negotiation and management abilities
• Opportunities to be taught from friends and worldwide consultants
• Membership of a rising community of modern peace leaders working throughout sectors and areas

The Fellowship is designed to assist leaders at a vital second of their careers—providing house to be taught, join, and put together for the challenges forward. It is an area for considerate engagement with the strategic dilemmas and dimensions of peace management right now. In a world the place formal mechanisms for peace are sometimes underneath pressure, and the place native innovation and management is more and more important, the Yale Peace Fellowship seeks to strengthen the capability of these working to forestall violence and restore divided communities.

Program Components

• A week-lengthy in-individual seminar at Yale University, held April 13-17, 2026
• Interactive digital classes, held bi-weekly from January by May 2026
• An worldwide study journey to be taught from peace efforts on the bottom. Fellows will journey to the UAE from February 1-5, 2026, to take part within the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity’s annual ceremony and convening; have interaction with main interfaith initiatives; and work together with a worldwide community of peacebuilders and mediators.

Costs

• There isn’t any application price or different value to apply or take part. All prices for journey, lodging, meals, and so forth. related to this system will probably be coated.

Eligibility

Applicants ought to:

• Be achieved within the area of peace and reconciliation.
• Have a observe document of sturdy management and a drive to develop professionally.
• Demonstrate dedication to cross-cultural understanding.
• Be fluent in English.

Peace Fellows have to be obtainable to totally take part in all components of this system, together with in-individual for two weeks of this system: per week-lengthy worldwide study journey (February 1-5, 2026) and a convening on Yale University’s campus in New Haven (April 13-17, 2026).

Application

Applications are at present being accepted for the 2026 Yale Peace Fellowship. The application deadline for the 2026 program is September 2, 2025, at 14:00 pm.

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For extra data, go to Yale Peace Fellowship.