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KROC SCHOOL OF PEACE STUDIES: WOMEN PEACEMAKERS FELLOWSHIP, SAN DIEGO

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Application Deadline: 30 March 2025. 

LOCATION: USA

Theme: Borders, Gender and Violence Reduction.

The Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (Kroc IPJ) at the University of San Diego’s Kroc School of Peace Studies has hosted the Women PeaceMakers Fellowship program for twenty years. The Fellowship offers a unique opportunity for peacebuilders who focus on gender, peace, and conflict to engage in a learning, practice, research, and participation cycle that strengthens peacebuilding partnerships.

ELIGIBILITY:

The Women PeaceMakers Fellowship facilitates impactful collaborations between peacebuilders from conflict-affected communities and international partner organizations.

Anyone who considers themselves a peacebuilder working to reduce cycles of violence through a focus on gender, peace, and conflict is welcome to apply.

People of all genders, including transgender and non-binary or gender-fluid people, are welcome to apply and are eligible for a fellowship.

The Women PeaceMakers Fellowship program does not consider sex, gender, or any other protected status as part of the application and selection process.

Applicants must have at least five years of peacebuilding or violence reduction experience and must speak sufficient English to participate fully in Fellowship activities.

The Fellows also co-create research intended to shape the peacebuilding field and highlight good practices for peacebuilding design and implementation.

Throughout the Fellowship with the Kroc IPJ, selected Fellows will:

Learn from and with other Fellows and the Kroc School team;

Learn about the Fellowship and past Fellows

Gain new skills, perspectives, and innovative approaches to peacebuilding

Expand their professional peacebuilding networks

Drive forward vital peacebuilding research that focuses on shaping practice and policy

Read past research from the Fellowship

Fellowship Dates: September 2025 – July 2026.

BENEFIT:

Fellows will receive a stipend of USD $15,000, which will cover their time spent in the fellowship as well as any costs for conducting fellowship-related research. The Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice will cover costs for the residency period at the University of San Diego.

Travel for the residency: Applicants should expect to be involved with full-time program activities throughout the two-week residency and should not schedule any conflicting engagements elsewhere in the US or overseas. An unscheduled absence from the Residency may result in the Fellow losing their Fellowship. The Kroc IPJ will work with Fellows to identify solutions if challenges arise related to receiving a visa to enter the US or the ability of the Fellow to visit the US safely. Accommodation will be provided at a guesthouse on the University of San Diego campus, and Fellows will be provided with a per diem to cover essentials.  

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY TRUSTEE SCHOLARSHIP

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Application Deadline: December 1, 2025

LOCATION: USA

Every year, BU welcomes approximately 20 outstanding students to the Trustee Scholars Program. Many of their current Scholars had perfect 4.0 grade point averages in high school and ranked in the top of their class.

ELIGIBILITY:

In addition to exceptional academic credentials, Trustee Scholars are intellectually and creatively adventurous and demonstrate viewpoints, experiences, or achievements beyond the usual. They are, in other words, not just top students, but extraordinarily well-rounded individuals. At BU, Trustee Scholars become part of a unique campus community that offers many intellectual, cultural, and social opportunities.

To be considered for a Trustee Scholarship:

Submit the Common Application and all required materials for admission to one of the undergraduate degree programs at BU by December 1.

Complete the Trustee Scholarship essay on the Common Application as part of your application to BU.

Please choose from one of the two prompts below and submit one essay, in 600 words or less, as part of your application through the Common Application.

Nobel laureate and BU professor Elie Wiesel once said: “There is divine beauty in learning… To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests.” Is there a book, film, podcast or life- experience that has made you feel more connected to your personal history/identity, and what is the most important thing you learned from it?

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Describe a time in your life when you stepped out of your comfort zone and forged your own path. What motivated you to take that action, and how did it change your perspective? Share the lessons you learned from that experience, and how it might shape your views as a Trustee Scholar.

For more information, please contact them at 617-353-2320.

BENEFIT:

A Trustee Scholarship covers full undergraduate tuition plus mandatory undergraduate student fees, and is renewable for four years if certain criteria are met.

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