• August 8 - 11, 2017
  • Fully Funded
  • Johannesburg, South Africa

Are you an African battling and with the desire to overcome the aforementioned challenges? Do you want to take part in a peaceful and vibrant dialogue to discover and maintain your inner peace? Do you want to contribute to world peace but you do not know how?

Peace Revolution invites you to the Second Amandla Eastern and Southern Africa Fellowship to take place in Joburg, SA. The four days fellowship will set up to 50 participants on a lifelong inner peace journey. It will further presents an opportunity to:

  • Empower youth with tools to develop and maintain a successful personal and professional life by cultivating their inner peace, positive habits through self-discipline, mindful practices and meditation.
  • Build a network of peacebuilders to exchange experiences and visions for partnerships while fostering an intercultural dialogue and a life-long inner peace building network.

Location:

South Africa

Benefits

The training starts with 21 Days online self-development program on our interactive platform providing you the basic theory and practice; develop the tool for inner peace.

The fellowship offers 4 days intensive training program providing participants with deeper insight in the relationship between inner peace and sustainable world peace through mindfulness and meditation and enhancing their ability to create peace within their family, professional and social environment. Hence participants will learn the benefits of meditation in relation to::

  • Conflict prevention and nonviolent conflict resolution
  • How to overcome fear and deal with terrorism
  • Stress management
  • non-violent communication
  • Self-discipline and Human Rights
  • Enhancement of leadership and the pillars for a stable and peaceful society

The Amandla Fellowship Includes:

  • Full or partial sponsorship of airfare support
  • Free accommodation
  • Free catering
  • Local transport to and from retreat centre

Eligibilities

  • be African nationals residing in Eastern and Southern Africa (Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Djibouti, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Malawi, Mozambique, Sudan, South Sudan, Botswana, Seychelles, Lesotho, Madagascar, Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mayotte and Mauritius).
  • be 20-32 years old at the time of submitting the application in order to receive the airfare support.
  • have completed at least 21 days of the 42-day online self-development program. Note that in order to submit the application form, candidates do not need to have completed the online self-development program.
  • have good proficiency in written and spoken English language.
  • be optimistic, open-minded, is a leader or shows leadership potential, and have a genuine interest in peace building.
  • send a recommendation letter from their organizations/institutions.
    International successful applicants shall pay a commitment fee of 100 USD while local participants pay USD 50 before the arrival to the retreat site (by Bank transfer or Western Union)
Eligible Regions: Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Djibouti, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Malawi, Mozambique, Sudan, South Sudan, Botswana, Seychelles, Lesotho, Madagascar, Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mayotte and Mauritius

Application Process

Apply online.

Application Deadline: May 20, 2017

Application ClosedOfficial link

For Further Queries

Should you need more information about the fellowship, please following the Amandla Facebook event or contact Timothy Onyango, the Fellowship manager at [email protected]
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