What’s the difference between a Rotary Global Scholar and a Peace Fellow?
Global Grant Scholarships are for graduate students studying abroad in one of Rotary’s six causes:
1. Promoting peace
2. Fighting disease
3. Providing clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
4. Saving mothers and children
5. Supporting education
6. Growing local economies
Scholarships last from one to four years and can include an entire degree program. Global grant scholarships are funded using cash and/or District Designated Funds matched by the World Fund.
The Rotary Club of Brunswick, with the financial help from several District 7780 clubs and the match from the District through DDF (District Designated Funds), sponsored Lonnie Hackett for a degree in Public Health at Oxford University in 2017. The scholarship was for $30,000 and followed many of the criteria of a Global Grant for any project. Many of the questions and the qualifications of the candidate are answered by the candidate.
Rotary Peace Fellowships are available to candidates who want to participate in a master’s degree or certificate program at one of our six partner universities.
Each year, Rotary awards up to 100 fully funded fellowships for dedicated leaders from around the world to study at one of our six peace centers. Through academic training, practice, and global networking opportunities, the Rotary Peace Centers program develops the fellows into experienced and effective catalysts for peace. The fellowships cover tuition and fees, room and board, round-trip transportation, and all internship and field-study expenses.
Two programs are available:
Master’s degree programs: Accepted candidates study peace and development issues with research-informed teaching and a diverse student body. The program lasts 15 to 24 months and includes a 2-3 month field study, which participants design themselves.
Professional development certificate program: Experienced leaders gain practice tools for promoting peace and international development during an intensive, 3- month program, which includes 3 weeks of field study and peer learning opportunities with a diverse group.
In just over a decade, the Rotary Peace Centers have trained more than 1,200 fellows. Many of them now serve as leaders at international organizations or have started their own foundations.
District 7780 recently sponsored the application of a candidate from Kenya named Susan Maina. Susan was attending a Rotary Club meeting in Nairobi in the spring of 2018 where she met the District 7780 Cultural Exchange Team. Susan expressed a keen interest in becoming a Rotary Peace Fellow and began the process of applying as a candidate from District 7780.
Susan wrote a strong application but was not chosen as a Peace Fellow. The world-wide competition for the 100 spots is very demanding. It is interesting to note that a candidate does not have to be a resident of the District or the country.
Rotary members are essential to recruiting qualified candidates for Rotary Global Scholars and Rotary Peace Fellowships. You can help worthy graduate students or advance peace in troubled areas around the world by promoting peace fellowships and supporting peace fellow candidates through the application process.
More information is available on the District website with links to rotary.org. Please contact District Foundation Peace Scholar Chair Claudia Frost for more information regarding any of these scholarship programs.
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