Extracurricular Opportunities: Week of June 6, 2022

Fellowships

GLOBAL POLICY. DIPLOMACY. SUSTAINABILITY. FELLOWSHIP Summer Cohort Application Open

The Global Policy, Diplomacy, and Sustainability Fellowship seeks to provide its fellows with a foundational understanding of governance, policy, sustainable ecosystems, and strategic issues. Fellows are united by their passion to bring about a global change, and typically come from a wide variety of countries and backgrounds. If you are interested in applying to be a part of their summer cohort, learn more and apply here.


The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship

A full-time, six-to-nine month fellowship in Washington, DC. Outstanding individuals will be selected to work with nonprofit, public-interest organizations addressing peace and security issues. This opportunity provides recent college and graduate school alumni with the opportunity to gain a Washington perspective on key issues of peace and security.

Scoville Fellows will choose to work with one of the twenty-six organizations participating in the program. Fellows may undertake a variety of activities, including research, writing, and organizing that support the goals of their host organization.

Fellows receive a salary of $3,400 per month and basic health insurance compensation, plus travel expenses to Washington, DC. The program also provides $1,000 per fellow for professional development to attend relevant conferences or meetings that could cover travel, accommodations, and registration fees, or to take a language or policy course. Application Information 


Presidential Management Fellow

Bearing the Presidential moniker, the PMF Program is a flagship leadership development program at the entry-level for advanced degree candidates. It was created more than three decades ago by Executive Order and has gone through many changes over the years. The Program attracts and selects the best candidates possible, but is really designed with a more narrow focus – developing a cadre of potential government leaders. It provides some sustenance during the first years of employment and encourages development of leadership capabilities. The PMF Program inculcates a lasting bond as well as a spirit of public service, ultimately encouraging and leading to a career in the government

Application Deadlines:

Spring 2023 Fellowship: October 3, 2022


Internships

Altruistic Capital – Internships

Selection process will end on June 19th, 2022


Ashoka Latin America Intern

Ashoka is looking for undergraduate and graduate students to contribute to a database of social entrepreneurship and conduct analyses for advancing the field of social entrepreneurship and collective impact. The intern will map social entrepreneurs from Latin America and analyze their innovations. The intern will also contribute to knowledge products, such as online courses, innovation sector reports, and innovation diagnostics tools.


San Diego Diplomacy Council – Internships

Gain hands-on experience in public diplomacy while learning about the work of a nonprofit in San Diego. Our volunteer intern positions are for college juniors through graduate-level students.


US Department of Justice Internships

CRS is seeking students from diverse academic backgrounds interested in working with “America’s Peacemaker” in communities across the nation. Through CRS’s internship program, students gain first-hand experience working for a federal agency with nationwide impact – helping prevent and respond to conflict, tension, hate crimes, and other challenges facing our communities today.


Other Extracurricular Opportunities

Kosovo International Summer Academy 2022

This July (12 – 22) and August (10 – 20), Kosovo International Summer Academy (KSA) will organize will organize Part I and Part II of its 9th edition of KSA2022, in Prishtina, Kosovo, with a special focus in “Peace building in post-conflict areas – Diplomacy, Leadership and Negotiations”, that will be realized by Kosovo Center for Diplomacy. The uniqueness of Kosovo International Summer Academy is the association with the professors and guest lecturers from the world’s top universities, government officials, and ambassadors. KSA will be welcoming experts from different levels that will be teaching and sharing their academic and professional experiences with our participants, as well as will give the chance to our participants to take the information from the first hand.  Kosovo International Summer Academy elaborate different topics on economics, politics, diplomacy, professional etiquette and protocol, leadership, peaceful conflict resolution, EU Integration process, international law, human rights, international justice, international security and the role of civil society in building peace in interactive lectures with diplomats, high level officials, representatives of civic society and prestigious local and international organizations.

KSA staff is working intensively to make sure that high-ranking officials of Kosovo and representatives of diplomatic missions in Kosovo will address the participants.


Consortium Speaker Series

The Consortium’s Speaker Series brings an international roster of frontline practitioners, reflective activists and engaged scholars to University of Massachusetts Boston’s campus. Their talks address the complex realities of women’s and men’s lives and livelihoods in conflict-affected areas, the challenges of trying to bring feminist commitments into security policy and humanitarian practice, and the ways in which gender analysis can and must transform resolutely “gender-blind” paradigms of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Information about Upcoming Speaker Events, Events Earlier This Year, and Past Speaker Events is available here. You can find videos or transcripts of these events, when available, under Consortium Lectures.


Global Shapers Community Los Angeles

The World Economic Forum Los Angeles Global Shapers is recruiting their next class of leaders!

Being part of the community has been an incredibly rewarding experience, from working on local impact projects to collaborating with fellow shapers around the world, to becoming friends with truly inspiring people.

The hub accepts new applicants on a monthly rolling basis for available openings. Please complete the application on their website to be considered or tag someone you think might be a good fit.

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