Scholarship / Fellowship
Please note: Before requesting an application for either the SPI scholarship or the Winston Fellowship, you must have a fully completed SPI application on file with the SPI office. Complete the SPI application, if you have not yet done so.
SPI scholarship
SPI has a small scholarship fund available to help promising applicants increase the benefit of their time and training at SPI by lowering costs for participants to take an additional session. SPI scholarships are given as matching grants, to cover the training fees for an additional SPI session, but cannot be used to pay for transportation, books, or other miscellaneous costs.
Please note that in order to take advantage of a matching grant scholarship for a second session, an SPI participant must have paid all of their fees for their first session no later than the first day of their first session at SPI and must be able to pay for their lodging and meals for a second session. All scholarship offers for a second session become null and void if a participant has not settled their bill for their first session in full by the first day of that session.
In order to qualify for an SPI scholarship, you must:
- Articulate how you expect training in peacebuilding to prepare you for greater effectiveness in what you hope to do with your life
- Explain how you plan to implement the knowledge from the trainings you would attend at SPI
- Demonstrate an ability to pay all of your transportation, lodging, and miscellaneous fees for two sessions
- Demonstrate an ability to pay the training fee for one session
- Submit a completed SPI application
If you meet the above criteria and would like to apply for an SPI scholarship, please send an e-mail to and request an application form.
Matching grant scholarship applications are due February 14, 2012.
The first round of scholarship decisions will be made by February 29, 2012.
Winston Fellowship
The Winston Fellowship will be awarded to one participant for SPI 2012. This fellowship is intended for an organization that seeks training for someone new to peacebuilding. The application must come from the organization as well as the individual, and must include at least a four-week internship after the individual returns from SPI. The fellowship covers the person’s entire participation for three sessions of training at SPI, including all visa fees, course and materials fees, lodging, a per diem for food and books, and transportation from your home country to EMU and back.
In order to qualify for a Winston Fellowship, you must:
- Have an organizational sponsor. This sponsor will have to complete a separate application that will be mailed to the organization’s contact. The organization must provide for you to have at least a four-week internship through them when you return home. The Winston Fellowship will provide $1000 to your sponsor that is to be given to you during the course of your internship for your living expenses, travel, and other necessary expenses.
- Be either an international participant or an indigenous American.
- Be able to articulate how you expect training in peacebuilding to prepare you for greater effectiveness in what you hope to do with your life.
- Be able to articulate your internship plan – what would you like to do with your sponsoring NGO? Include general description, location, others involved, objectives, goals, activities, and any other information you feel is pertinent.
If you meet the above criteria and would like to apply for a Winston Fellowship, please send an e-mail to and ask for the Winston Fellowship application. In that e-mail you must provide the name of the organization that will sponsor you as well as a contact person and their e-mail address. You will receive a personal application. SPI will email the organization sponsorship form directly to the organization to complete. E-mails without the sponsoring organization’s contact information will not be considered.
Winston Fellows applications are due by January 17, 2012.
The Fellowships will be announced by February 7, 2012.