2nd Africa Regional Conference
Join us in Nairobi to Reimagine the Purpose of Education
Cultivating Virtues for Leadership Among Educational Leaders in Colleges and Universities.
About the Conference
The Centre for Character and Leadership will host the 2nd Africa Regional Conference from August 26-28, 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference invites scholars, educators, policy makers and practitioners to reflect on how to intentionally promote cultivation of virtues and character strengths in contemporary educational contexts.
The main aim of this conference is to promote cultivation of virtues for leadership (CViL) among educational leaders. Grounded in a Servant Leadership framework, CViL promotes the cultivation of key virtues including humility, noble purpose, gratitude and courage to support educators in becoming effective and ethical leaders.
The conference creates a platform for research dissemination and professional development of educational leaders to research, learn and impact mentoring-based practices in order to foster character and values education, servant leadership, and education for human flourishing within and beyond the institutions of higher learning in Kenya and Africa region.
In this Conference, organizations in Africa that were previously funded under the Global Innovations for Character Development (GICD) by the Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF) will have an opportunity to share the research findings.
The conference provides a great opportunity to inaugurate the Association for Character Development in Africa (ACDA) and discuss future prospects of holding annual character development themed conferences.
Conference Program
The Conference Program will follow a structured sequence of plenary sessions, breakout sessions and reflection exercises.
The Plenary and breakout Sessions will focus on:
- Professional development of educational leaders on cultivation of virtues and character strengths
- Introduce research-informed frameworks for character and values education
- Explore strategies for integrating virtues and character strengths into education systems
- Share research evidence on character development
Reflection sessions will involve participating teams from each university/ organization designing an action plan for the cultivation of virtues and character strengths
Next steps: Initiate an on-going conversation on cultivation of virtues and character strengths in Colleges and Universities.
Plenary Speakers
Call for Papers
We invite organizations/ institutions that design and implement programs that promotes cultivation of virtues and character strengths through research, education and training to submit an abstract.
Requirement for Oral/Paper Presentation:
Title (12 words)
Author Information
Abstract (100 words)
Please submit your abstract through conference email address: cepcharacter@gmail.com
We will send out notifications of acceptance on a rolling basis until July 30, 2026.
Conference Registration Fee
The conference registration fee is Kshs 15000 for resident and USD 150 for non-resident.
This includes full conference package (buffet lunch, Am/Pm tea/coffee) at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (Wednesday 26th August – Friday 28th August 2026; 2:00pm)
Details of how to pay the registration fee will be provided in due course to those invited.
This conference is made possible through the generous support of The Templeton World Charity Foundation
Conference Organizers
Peter King’ori, Margaret Chepngetich, Beth Gakuha