Deadline: 15-May-22
Applications are now open for the International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID) Fellows Programme to bring together leaders and educators from Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and other religious backgrounds from around the world for training in dialogue facilitation, intercultural communication, and promoting social cohesion by KAICIID experts.
Exchange programmes across religious educational institutions only exist within a few countries around the world. In most countries, exchange does not exist due either to a lack of interest, a lack of resources, and/or a lack of diversity of religious institutions. KAICIID recognizes the integral part of knowledge-sharing among religious education institutions that train future leaders. The Centre aims to connect these institutions and their select teachers to a network of an active transnational community of interreligious dialogue practitioners in order to advocate for peace. The KAICIID International Fellows Programm seeks to not only address these problems but also to network institutions that train religious leaders transnationally so that interreligious dialogue can become a common feature of any religious training, whatever the religion might be.
Who Are The Fellows?
The Fellows are a global community of diverse religious leaders, educators and dialogue practitioners from Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and other religious backgrounds. The international cohort includes Fellows from different parts of the world, while regional cohorts draw Fellows from their respective regions and use the regional languages. The content and the format of the training, resources, and the opportunities offered are the same in all cohorts.
What Do The Fellows Study?
The Fellows Programme includes three intensive residential trainings which cover interreligious dialogue theory, dialogue facilitation and project sustainability and evaluation. Throughout the trainings, Fellows visit diverse houses of worship and learn to facilitate their own site-visits. KAICIID also provides Fellows with small grants to implement dialogue projects tailored to the needs of their institutions and communities. Past initiatives have included interfaith youth projects, trainings in interreligious/intercultural dialogue for future religious leaders, hate speech awareness campaigns, and initiatives designed to empower women at the global policymaking table.
Eligibility Criteria
Each year, the KAICIID Fellows Programme selects a new group of extraordinary leaders and educators, with a proven ability of advancing interreligious dialogue in their institutions and communities.
Requirements
- Teaching at an institution that trains future religious leaders (i.e. Seminaries, Temples and similar institutions); and/or dialogue practitioners with access to train at such institutions.
- Coming from (and/or have the support of) his/her institution.
- Preference for applicants who are below 40 years of age.
- Willingness to learn and cooperate with religious leaders from different religious backgrounds.
- Have working knowledge of English for the international cohort (the working language of the training is English).
- Ability to participate and commit to the whole duration of the Programme (12 months, including monthly online sessions; online courses and 3 one-week trainings in-person).
- Preference for applicants with policy level engagements.
For more information, visit https://www.kaiciid.org/what-we-do/kaiciid-fellows-programme