Generations for Peace extends prestigious collaboration with Georgetown University

Washington, D.C., 22 September 2011: Generations For Peace has extended its collaboration with Georgetown University on the International Day of Peace, 21 September 2011. The international NGO's Founder and Chairman, HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein of Jordan, signed an MOU guaranteeing the offer of four academic awards within the Washington, D.C., institution's highly rated Conflict Resolution programme to the end of 2014.

The collaboration is aimed at connecting academics with practitioners, evaluating and monitoring real life peace through sport initiatives and helping increase their impact and sustainability in conflict zones around the world. Generations For Peace is extending its support for the King Abdullah II of Jordan Generations For Peace Research Fellowship; the Generations For Peace Scholarship for Graduate Studies; and two summer field research grants, the Generations For Peace Field Research Awards. The extension builds on success of the initial collaboration began in 2010.

HRH Prince Feisal emphasised that the agreement combines both organisations' impressive set of strengths and promises to continue stimulating tangible, sustainable change:

"Georgetown University has a deserved reputation for commitment to peace, social justice and ethics. Together we are able to provide the tools and resources that allow Generations For Peace to continue making an impact on the ground by connecting top-quality academic research with cutting-edge practice on the ground. Extending our collaboration will ensure that continues."

Dr John J. DeGioia, President of Georgetown University, commented:

"Our collaboration with Generations For Peace has made a profound and positive impact within Georgetown University's Conflict Resolution masters programme, enabling our faculty and students to engage some of the most pressing issues in the field more deeply. We are proud of the work already carried out by our Fellowship and Scholarship holders and our Summer Field Research Grantee students, and the way in which their efforts have clearly demonstrated the demand for more learning and more research in the field. This extension will enable us to build on the work already done, to more fully live out Georgetown's commitment to service and social justice, and to provide an important contribution to the sport for peace and development community."

Focusing on the practical impact of the research that the awards support, HRH Princess Sarah Al-Feisal, President of Generations For Peace, said:

"We want to help aspiring change makers learn the theory that will make the work they do in conflict zones much more effective and sustainable. For that reason, initiatives like the one we are extending with Georgetown University, are essential because they connect theory and practice to guide learning and improvements to programmes to enhance their impact."

For all four awards, candidates will be selected through a competitive process with the scholarship awarded by a committee at the University.

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