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The Dialogue Institute collaborates extensively with former alumni as well as with other individuals and organizations who share the DI/JES vision and mission. Dialogue requires partners and the DI/JES is interested in helping to forge supportive cooperation among participants in this Dialogue Institute Network (DIN) in the region as well as nationally and internationally. Through this network, students, educators, scholars, and activists from around the world develop their own leadership and share wisdom and solace with others. Organizations, both governmental and nonprofit, shape and fund mutually beneficial programming.
Top Recommended Programs from the US State Department
Community Solutions
The Community Solutions Program (CSP) is a professional development program for the best and brightest community leaders, from over 90 countries, to confront common problems across the areas of environmental issues, tolerance and conflict resolution, transparency and accountability, and women and gender issues through four-month fellowships with community-based not-for-profit, public and government offices across the United States.
J-1 Visa Summer Work Travel Program
College and University students enrolled full-time and pursuing studies at post-secondary accredited academic institutions located outside the United States come to the United States to share their culture and ideas with people of the United States through temporary work and travel opportunities.
Professional Fellows Program
The Professional Fellows Program brings emerging leaders in the fields of legislative process and governance; civic engagement; NGO management; economic empowerment and entrepreneurship; and journalism from around the world to the United States for intensive fellowships designed to broaden their professional expertise.
YSEALI Professional Fellows Program
Launched in 2013, the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) is the U.S. government’s signature program to strengthen leadership development and networking in Southeast Asia. The YSEALI Professional Fellows Program is a professional development exchange program for the best and brightest community leaders from ASEAN, working in the fields of civic engagement, NGO management, economic empowerment, governance, legislative process, environmental and natural resources management.
OneBeat
OneBeat is an international music exchange that celebrates musical collaboration and social engagement through innovative people-to-people diplomacy.
Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program for International Teachers
Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program provides opportunities for primary and secondary teachers to exchange positions with colleagues in the United States.
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program
U.S. institutions of higher education may submit proposals to host Fulbright lecturers from abroad for one or both semesters in an academic year.
Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (Global UGRAD)
The Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (also known as the Global UGRAD Program) provides one semester scholarships to outstanding undergraduate students from around the world for non-degree full-time study combined with community service, professional development and cultural enrichment.
Fulbright Foreign Student Program
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program enables graduate students, young professionals, and artists from abroad to research and study in the United States for one year or longer at U.S. universities or other appropriate institutions.
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
The Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program provides grants to approximately 850 foreign scholars from over 100 countries to conduct post-doctoral research at U.S. institutions from an academic semester to a full academic year.
TechWomen
Empowering women leaders in the technology field by bringing together women in Northern California with their counterparts in the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa for a professional mentorship and exchange program at leading technology companies.
Teachers of Critical Languages Program
The Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) brings teachers from China, Egypt and Morocco to eligible U.S. elementary and secondary schools to teach Chinese and Arabic for an academic year.
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Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (Global UGRAD)
The Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (also known as the Global UGRAD Program) provides one semester scholarships to outstanding undergraduate students from around the world for non-degree full-time study combined with community service, professional development and cultural enrichment.
Fulbright Foreign Student Program
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program enables graduate students, young professionals, and artists from abroad to research and study in the United States for one year or longer at U.S. universities or other appropriate institutions.
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
The Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program provides grants to approximately 850 foreign scholars from over 100 countries to conduct post-doctoral research at U.S. institutions from an academic semester to a full academic year.
J-1 Visa Summer Work Travel Program
College and University students enrolled full time and pursuing studies at post-secondary accredited academic institutions located outside the United States come to the United States to share their culture and ideas with people of the United States through temporary work and travel opportunities.
Community Solutions
The Community Solutions Program (CSP) is a professional development program for the best and brightest community leaders, from over 90 countries, to confront common problems across the areas of environmental issues, tolerance and conflict resolution, transparency and accountability, and women and gender issues through four-month fellowships with community-based not-for-profit, public and government offices across the United States.
TechWomen
Empowering women leaders in the technology field by bringing together women in Northern California with their counterparts in the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa for a professional mentorship and exchange program at leading technology companies.
YSEALI Professional Fellows Program
Launched in 2013, the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) is the U.S. government’s signature program to strengthen leadership development and networking in Southeast Asia. The YSEALI Professional Fellows Program is a professional development exchange program for the best and brightest community leaders from ASEAN, working in the fields of civic engagement, NGO management, economic empowerment, governance, legislative process, environmental and natural resources management.
Professional Fellows Program
The Professional Fellows Program brings emerging leaders in the fields of legislative process and governance; civic engagement; NGO management; economic empowerment and entrepreneurship; and journalism from around the world to the United States for intensive fellowships designed to broaden their professional expertise.
YTILI Fellowship Program
The Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative (YTILI) is the U.S.Department of State's flagship program for emerging entrepreneurs from Europe. In 2021 and 2022, a cohort of young European entrepreneurs from 45 European countries will participate in this exciting fellowship program.
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program for Iraq
The Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program for Iraq brings Iraqi scholars in selected fields to U.S. institutions.
OneBeat
OneBeat is an international music exchange that celebrates musical collaboration and social engagement through innovative people-to-people diplomacy.
Teachers of Critical Languages Program
The Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) brings teachers from China, Egypt and Morocco to eligible U.S. elementary and secondary schools to teach Chinese and Arabic for an academic year.
KAICIID Fellows Programme
About The Fellows Programme: The KAICIID Fellows Programme is an ongoing capacity development and networking programme that starts with one year of hybrid training. The Programme is designed to connect and cultivate a network of leaders committed to fostering peace in their communities through interreligious and intercultural dialogue. Since its launch in 2015, the Programme has equipped hundreds of Fellows from 86 countries with the dialogue skills needed to tackle real-world challenges – such as hate speech, communal conflict and violent extremism. Fellows can be part of the international or regional cohorts including the Arab Region, Africa, Europe, South and South-east Asia and Latin America. For more information about the application process and the programme in general, please visit the Frequently Asked Questions page.
Organizations
African Union
The AU, founded in May 2001 and headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is a union of 55 member states that work together to address major political, social and economic issues, including preventing and ending conflict and promoting pan-African development and integration.
UNESCO
UNESCO believes that since wars begin in the minds of men and women, it is in the minds of men and women that peace must be built. The organization uses education, science and culture to inform, inspire and engage people everywhere to foster understanding and respect for each other and the planet.
Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO)
Found in 1979, the Islamic World Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) is one of the largest Islamic organizations worldwide. Its objectives include strengthening cooperation among its 54 member states in the fields of education, science, culture, and communication, and to encourage diversity, dialogue, and understanding.
ASEAN
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand.
UN Environmental Programme (UNEP)
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority which sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
The Joint Learning Initiative Faith & Local Communities (JLI)
The Joint Learning Initative (JLI) is an international collaboration which develops and communicates evidence on local faith actors’ roles and contributions to sustainable development and humanitarian action, including community health and wellbeing.
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is the second largest organization after the United Nations with a membership of 57 states spread over four continents. The OIC endeavours to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony among various people of the world.
Oslo Center
The Oslo Center promotes and enhances democratic practices by strengthening good governance, political institutions, and civic spaces. The organization aims to ensure that democratic systems are responsive to citizen needs, and that they respect meaningful and inclusive participation, human rights, and human dignity.
Religions for Peace
Founded in 1970, Religions for Peace (RfP) is the world's largest and most representative multi-religious coalition advancing common action among the world's religious communities for peace. The organization works to transform violent conflict, advance human development, promote just and harmonious societies and protect the earth. The global Religions for Peace network comprises a World Council of senior religious leaders from all regions of the world; six regional inter-religious bodies and more than ninety national ones; and the Global Women of Faith Network and Global Interfaith Youth Network.
University for Peace (UPEACE)
The University for Peace (UPEACE) is an institution of higher education dedicated to the study of peace, created by UN General Assembly Resolution 35/55.
