Rotary Peace Fellowship 2024-25 is an international fellowship opportunity open to students worldwide. This fully funded fellowship program is aimed at international fellows who are keen advocates of peace and are working for its progression. The Rotary scholarship is awarded to up to 90 applicants who show extraordinary leadership and problem-solving qualities. These Rotary awards for international students work as a motivation for students to work as dedicated leaders. Students can bring commendable change by becoming an effective activists for peace. This fully funded scholarship provides students with the best possible methods and techniques to become powerful ambassadors of peace, highly influential people, and effective professionals.
The Rotary Peace Fellowship Program is established to train future peace leaders who will work for positive change worldwide on an international platform. This international fellowship will provide fellows with modern global networking opportunities. Moreover, they will get a chance to work on an international level and make networks that will help them in the future. Furthermore, fellows will work to enhance their abilities and skills. Rotary is a global network of 1.4 million leaders and problem-solvers working together to make lasting changes in themselves, their communities and the globe. We know solving real problems requires real commitment and vision. Rotatory is working to make this world a better place in terms of education, peace, health etc., and they are committed to their work.
Rotary has developed partnerships with renowned universities that host the Rotary Peace Centers. The centers empower, educate, and increase the capacity of peacebuilders through academic training, practice, and global networking opportunities. These fully funded fellowships are for dedicated young leaders from around the world who want to study at one of our peace centers. The Rotary Peace fellowship program creates the capacity of peace and development professionals to become effective people for peace through academic training, practice, and global networking opportunities. Rotary is working to make a change from the root level. The fully-funded international fellowship has been provided to get the desired results. Through this program, fellows will engage in activities and practices that have the potential to make a change in the world. The components of the international fellowship program are academic training, workshop series, applied field experience, networking and a final seminar.
The Rotary Peace fellowship is divided into two categories to accommodate the most worthy, deserving and eligible candidates without any doubt. The first is the Rotary Scholarships for master’s program students, and the other is the Rotary Fellowships for the professional development certificate program. The main focus of both programs is peace and development issues. Selected fellows will get training from the best research-informed teachers in the best institutes. Students will become a part of a diverse learning community where they learn from professionals.
The professionals who become part of this Rotary Professional Development program work with high-class professionals and learn practical skills in this one-year program. The program is a mixture of online learning, classroom studies and social change initiatives. Both programs are created to help students or professionals near to starting their careers and those with proven experience with the educational opportunities that will further their careers in peacebuilding and development. They select 50 fellows for their master’s program, which is 15 months to 2 years and 40 students for their one-year postgraduate certificate program. During the one-year learning program, experienced peace and development professionals with distinct backgrounds gain practical skills to promote peace within their societies and across the globe. This program is for working professionals. Fellows earn a postgraduate diploma after completing the program.
Host Countries for Rotary Peace Fellowship 2024:
- Australia
- USA
- England
- Sweden
- Japan
Centers offering the Master’s Program:
- International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
- The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- University of Bradford, Bradford, England
- The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Duke University, Durham and Chapel Hill, USA
- Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Rotary Peace Centers offering the Certificate Program:
- Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
- Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Level of Program:
- Master’s Degree Program
- Professional development certificate program
Rotary Peace Scholarship Duration:
- Master’s Degree Scholarship: 15 months to 2 years
- Professional Development Certificate Program: One Year
Total Fellowship awards: Total 90 awards, including 50 for master’s degree program and 50 for Certificate Studies.
Deadline is March 15, 2023
