2023 OSCE Scholarship for Peace and Security
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The Scholarship for Peace and Security in the OSCE Area seeks to empower young professionals, in particular women, to engage in the security sector, especially the politico-military security field. The course emphasizes preventive responses to crises and conflicts as well as strengthening mediation support and post-conflict rehabilitation efforts; through arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation; towards confidence- and security-building in the OSCE area.
Following a record number of applications,150 young professionals, 85% of which are female, from 48 OSCE Participating states and 9 Partners for Co-operation start a nine-week inquiry-based online course on 29 May 2023. This will be followed by a one-week in-person course for some successful female graduates, held in Vienna, in Autumn 2023.
Learning about preventive actions of war and putting emphasis on preemptive diplomacy, mediation, peacebuilding, and sustaining peace, would be a unique and invaluable experience. I am sure that the program will contribute to my professional development in my future career in peacekeeping and human rights protection”.
– Alina, Ukraine, 2023 participant
The Programme is held in English and provides general orientation and knowledge about conflict prevention and resolution through arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation, with a specific focus on the OSCE-related instruments, addressing the conflict cycle in the region.
Upon completion of the training, I have two immediate plans. First, I would like to write a journal article on one of the topics covered during the training and get it published. I believe getting the topic into discourse is one of the first steps. Second, I would like to organize a series of online programs to discuss some of the topics among my network. In the long term, I would like to further build on my career in security.”
– Kamila, Afghanistan, 2023 participant
Find out more on the scholarship's homepage.