African Leadership Centre Associate Fellowship in Peace, Security and Development for African Students 2026/2027 – YOA

Deadline: May 24, 2026

Applications are open for the African Leadership Centre Associate Fellowship in Peace, Security and Development for African Students 2026/2027. This affiliate fellowship bursary is accessible to African college students making use of for the MSc Global Leadership and Peacebuilding at King’s College London, for the 2026/27 educational yr (starting in September 2026). It is accessible to college students finding out full time solely. The bursary is accessible to younger Africans who’re pursuing careers in management, safety, and growth.

Established in 2010, the African Leadership Centre (ALC) seeks to construct an inter-generational group of transformative leaders producing chopping-edge data 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 data, 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.

Benefits

• 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 2026/27 educational yr in addition to 5 thousand kilos (£5,000) as a contribution to their dwelling bills in London.
• This fellowship combines rigorous educational 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 may also 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 educational data, analysis abilities, mentorship coaching, and sensible expertise, related to a community of distinguished African consultants in peace, safety, and growth to propel their careers ahead.

Eligibility

• Candidates should have the ability to exhibit the next values throughout all phases of the programme: selling African led concepts and processes of change; impartial pondering; integrity; pursuit of excellence; recognition of youth company and respect for variety in all its kinds.
• Candidates should have citizenship in an African nation.
• Successful candidates should maintain legitimate journey paperwork previous to acceptance.
• Candidates must exhibit an curiosity in pursuing careers in the sector of peace, safety and growth.
• A last affirmation of provide of a spot on the programme is determined by securing unconditional acceptance into the MSc in international Leadership and Peacebuilding at King’s College London by the University’s deadline. Please word that for most college students from the worldwide south passing an English Language Proficiency Test is necessary to realize unconditional acceptance to the MSc programme at King’s College London.
• A last affirmation of provide of a spot on this programme is determined by profitable candidates acquiring a pupil visa.

Application

Applicants in this affiliate fellowship ought to apply for each the affiliate fellowship and the MSc programme.

The following paperwork are required earlier than your application is taken into account full:

• A completely accomplished application questionnaire on the web application system.
• A supporting assertion of 500 to 750 phrases—outlining why you need to be part of this programme, what distinctive contribution you’d deliver, and what change you envision contributing to in your group or space of labor after the programme.
• Two letters of advice (to be obtained instantly out of your referees by the deadline of 24 May 2026, 23:59 hrs EAT).
• A latest curriculum vitae, most 2 pages.

Apply for the Associate Fellowship
Apply for the MSc in Global Leadership and Peacebuilding

For extra info, go to African Leadership Centre Associate Fellowship.