The United States – Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values
The
United States – Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public
Values is
a binational partnership between the Sanford School of Public Policy
at Duke University and the Graduate School of Business at the University
of Cape Town.
The Center will:
- Enhance the capacity of highly promising emerging leaders, primarily in Southern Africa but also in historically disadvantaged communities in the United States, to contribute to the empowerment of their communities and the transformation of their countries;
- Strengthen civil society with particular regard to mutual learning and collaborative initiatives between independent sector leaders in the United States and Southern Africa; and
- Make a substantive contribution to the public discussion and understanding of the role of ethics and values in public life in both Southern Africa and the United States.
Programs
Effective Leadership (Louisiana)
This is the Center’s newest program. Nominations for Fellowship candidates are being sought in September, October and November 2008 for the first class of 20-25 Fellows. Candidates’ applications will be due in December 2008. Fellowships will be announced in early March with Fellowship activities commencing in April of that year. (Each year a similar recruitment and program schedule will occur.) Effective Leadership (EL) is modeled after the Center’s highly effective Emerging Leaders Programme, now six years old (see below). It will be managed by the Center in partnership with the College of Business at Southern University (Baton Rouge). EL is structured as an intensive one-year, in-service training program for rising mid-career professionals – primarily but not exclusively African-American men and women – in Louisiana’s nonprofit, private and public sectors. It focuses on the theory and personal application of “transformative” leadership principles on the premise that effective, not just efficient, leadership is a product of the disciplined application of universal moral principles to leadership thought and behaviors. The goal of Effective Leadership is to build a supporting network of transformative leaders in the State. Key program activities include three multi-day retreats scheduled across the year (the last to be held in Cape Town, South Africa), year-long personal executive coaching, public policy advocacy planning projects and a series of reading, self-assessment and writing assignments.
Effective Leadership (Louisiana) Program Description (pdf)
Selected Comments from Four Classes of ELP Fellows (pdf)
Nomination Form, Effective Leadership Program 2009/10
DUE November 28, 2008
(doc or
pdf)
Application Form (for Nominees), Effective Leadership Program 2009/10
DUE December 17, 2008
(Emerging Leaders Program
Annually, the Center will recruit emerging leaders in the public, private and nonprofit sectors from both Southern Africa and the United States for special training. The key elements of the program are focused and concentrated week-long retreats and Fellow-Mentor relationships. The retreats will explore such themes as ethics and accountability in public life; whether there is an African paradigm of leadership, and what it has to teach those working to transform their communities; and strategies for personal renewal. The mentoring component will pair Fellows with established leaders, who will serve as personal advisers. As emerging leaders work through problems and explore the moral basis for public action, the experienced mentors will provide honest, constructive feedback to ensure reflective learning and ongoing renewal.
Emerging Leaders Program Brochure (pdf)
Civil Society Forum
Civil society leaders (including foundation executives) from the United States and Southern Africa will come together to share insights on key issues facing the sector in Southern Africa, to develop initiatives to strengthen non-governmental leadership and governance, and to promote sector sustainability. Working committees, co-chaired by distinguished non-governmental leaders from the United Sates and Southern Africa, will form partnerships in key areas of mutual interest: philanthropy and corporate public involvement, youth service and voluntarism, health, faith-based organizations, and reconstruction and development. The Forum will gather annually in plenary sessions to report on the progress of specific projects and to discuss areas of further cooperation. [Monograph]
Ethics in Public Life Initiatives
The Sanford School at Duke and the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town will collaborate on a series of initiatives to contribute to scholarship and the conversation about public values. Initiatives may include research, seminars or conferences for policymakers and opinion leaders, articles, occasional papers, monographs, special interviews and panels for television and radio, and presentations to key audiences.
Ambassador James A. Joseph Speeches / Notes
For more information, please contact Khuwailah "Cookie" Beyah at 919-613-7321 or email clpv@duke.edu.
Mailing address:
Center for Leadership and Public Values
Duke University
Box 90310
Durham, NC 27708
Shipping Address (for overnight deliveries):
Center for Leadership and Public Values
201 Science Drive, Room 116
Durham, NC 27708
