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About the ACDIS Internship Database
This database is intended as a guide to help students identify various internship opportunities relevant to topics—such as conflict resolution, environment and energy, disarmament, and so on—of interest to the ACDIS program. The database includes over two hundred organizations with internship programs both in the United States and abroad, as well as additional links with general information and advice about internships. Where possible, we have linked directly to web pages devoted to internship and career opportunities on a given organization’s web site. We have also provided information, when available, about compensation available through each internship (whether it is paid or unpaid, and whether or not a stipend is available).
Note: This database was developed by employees and students affiliated with the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS) at the University of Iliinois. Inclusion in this database does not represent endorsement by ACDIS or the University of any particular organization or its internship program. The content here is provided simply as an informational resource.
Suggestions on links to be added or updated can be sent by email to ACDIS.
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Your query, "Internships concerning the topics of Humanitarian / Human Rights," returned 91 results.
ACCION International - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
ACCION International works to eliminate poverty by providing people the resources, especially microfinance loans, they need to sustain themselves.
Action Without Borders - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
Action Without Borders works \"to help build a world where all people can live free, dignified and productive lives.
Africa Action - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Africa Action combines policy work with citizen mobilization as it strives "to change U.S. foreign policy to support Africa's struggle for peace and development.
Africa-America Institute - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Africa-America Institute offers internships in Washington, DC and New York City that support its short and long-term graduate education and professional training programs in Africa.
African Instutitute - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Promotes human rights and development in Africa and provides legal assistance to prosecute human rights violations.
Africare - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
A humanitarian organization to improve the quality of life in rural Africa.
Albert Einstein Institution - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Albert Einstein Institution advances the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world in order to achieve "the reduction of political violence."
American Civil Liberties Union - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The leading NGO working to insure civil liberties in the United States.
American Friends Service Committee - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Founded by Quakers in 1917, the AFSC carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world.
Americans for Peace Now - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Americans for Peace Now serves as a Jewish voice for a peaceful and secure Israel. APN offers internships in its Washington, DC, New York, and Los Angeles offices.
Amnesty International - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Works impartially for the release of all prisoners of conscience, fair and prompt trials for political prisoners, and an end to torture, executions, and \"disappearances.\"
Atlantic Council of the United States - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Atlantic Council of the United States promotes \"constructive leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the central role of the Atlantic community in meeting the challenges of the 21st century.\"
Bread for the World - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Seeks justice for the world\'s hungry people by lobbying US decision makers to improve access to food.
Brookings Institution - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Conducts research, provides education, and produces publications on issues of foreign policy, government, economics, and social policy.
CARE, Inc. - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
CARE works to reduce poverty around the world by designing and supporting community-based programs addressing health, education and economic development. Instead of internships, CARE offers \"volunteer vacations\" of two weeks duration.
Carter Center - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
President Jimmy Carter\'s foundation that works to resolve problems by promoting democracy and development around the world.
Catholic Relief Services - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Catholic Relief Services, the official international relief and development agency of the US Catholic community, offers a variety of internship experiences in a number of areas of expertise.
Center for Applied Studies in International Negotiation (CASIN) - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Provides training in negotiation and dispute resolution in international relations.
Center for Democracy - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Promotes and strengthens the democratic process both in the US and abroad, encourages dialogue on international conflicts, and assists in the development of democratic institutions.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention - Compensation: Paid Positions(s)
The CDC conducts and facilitates research on "public health efforts to prevent and control infectious and chronic diseases, injuries, workplace hazards, disabilities, and environmental health threats.
Center for International Policy - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Promotes a U.S. foreign policy based on peace, international cooperation, demilitarization, and respect for basic human rights.
Center for National Security Studies - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Works to prevent claims of national security from being used to erode civil liberties or constitutional government.
Center for Strategic and International Studies - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
CSIS offers internships formulating effective policy to address issues of national and international security.
Central Committee For Conscientious Objectors - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Central Committe for Conscientious Objectors opposes militarism in the schools and educates young people about alternatives to military service. It offers a limited number of openings in its summer Freeman Bristol Internship Program.
Childrens Creative Response to Conflict - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
ChildrenÕs Creative Response to Conflict encourages young people to "learn creative skills of non-violent conflict resolution." It offers internships and volunteer opportunities.
Childrens Defense Fund - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Children\'s Defense Fund works as an effective voice for children so that our society will truly Leave No Child Behind.
Citizens for Global Involvement - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
An activist organization that envisions a future in which nations work together under the rule of law to abolish war, protect the rights and freedoms of people worldwide, and solve the problems facing humanity that require collective international efforts.
Commission on Security & Cooperation in Europe - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
An independent agency of the U.S. government that works with the OSCE.
Corporate Accountability International - Compensation: Paid Positions(s)
Corporate Accountability International, formerly known as INFACT, offers interns experience in its work \"waging and winning campaigns that challenge irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world.\"
Council for a Liveable World/CLW Education Fund - Compensation: Paid Positions(s)
The Council for a Livable World, the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation and PeacePAC are among the nation's preeminent arms control organizations. They focus on halting the spread of weapons of mass destruction, opposing a national missile defense system, cutting Pentagon waste, and reducing excessive arms exports. The Council and PeacePAC are also political lobbies which endorse political candidates." Ask your college or university about earning academic credit with this internship.
Council on American Islamic Relations - Compensation: Paid Positions(s)
CAIR was established to promote policies that \"provide Muslim-Americans with the same equality granted to everyone else.
Council on Hemispheric Affairs - Compensation: Paid Positions(s)
Independent research and information organization that promotes the common interests of the Western Hemisphere and rational U.S. policy in Latin America.
Development Group for Alternative Policies - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Works for a just international economic order and development policies that promote a wide distribution of their benefits.
Eisenhower Institute - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Building on President Dwight D. Eisenhower\'s legacy of leadership, the Eisenhower Institute works \"for outcomes that serve the long-term interests of the American people while promoting justice and international peace.
Food Research and Action Center - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Food Research and Action Center interns apply their commitment to public interest and anti-poverty work to a variety of projects that promote the availability of food resources.
Fresno Pacific Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
The Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies operates a website with an extensive listing of internships, along with other job openings, in the field of conflict studies.
Fund for Peace - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The mission of the Fund for Peace is to prevent war and alleviate the conditions that cause war.
Global Policy Forum - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Global Policy Forum's mission is to encourage global citizen participation in order to promote advocacy on "vital issues of international peace and justice.
Government Accountability Office - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Government Accountability Office serves the needs of the U.S. Congress in evaluating the performance and ensuring the accountability of the federal government. It offers short-term internships that focus on a variety of public policy issues.
Grassroots International - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Grassroots International offers its interns "the opportunity to learn about international development and human rights while serving the cause of social justice."
Guatemala Human Rights Commission USA - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA monitors, documents, and reports on the human rights situation in Guatemala. Interns are integrated into the work of the staff. Spanish language skills are particularly useful for interns.
Human Rights Documentation Exchange - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Human Rights Documentation Exchange provides interns first hand experience working with human rights and refugee issues.
Human Rights First - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
Human Rights First, formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, works "to create a secure and humane world by advancing justice, human dignity and respect for the rule of law." It offers a variety of internships; law students are especially encouraged to apply.
Human Rights Watch/Helsinki Watch Committee - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
Human Rights Watch offers internships at its U.S. and London offices, working in a wide variety of subject areas to promote impartial reporting of violations as well as fostering the development of human rights.
Insititute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
The Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution provides a general listing of internships in organizations compatible with its work "to promote peaceful conflict resolution techniques among a generation of future leaders.
Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Food First offers a veriety of unpaid internships, including on-line, remote internships. Those fluent in Spanish or Portuguese are especially needed. About 25% of an intern's work will be administrative, but the majority of time is spent on the individual projects of interns.
Institute for Global Communications - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
The Institute for Global Communications offers a consolidated listing of internships available with progressive grassroots organizations.
Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy has a particular emphasis on internships for international students and U.S. international studies students in its work \"to promote a systems approach to peacebuilding and the transformation of deep-rooted social conflict.
Institute for Policy Studies - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
Provides research and timely analysis on the dynamics of the national security state and the arms race and offers alternative security policies.
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation studies the causes of international conflict and cooperation and is committed to fostering a new generation of problem-solvers and peacemakers.
Inter-American Development Bank - Compensation: Paid Positions(s)
By providing loans and technical assistance, the IADB promotes the investment of public and private capital in Western Hemisphere member countries for social and economic development.
International Peace Bureau - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Based in Geneva, Switzerland, the International Peace Bureau is an international networking organization for NGOs composed of over 265 peace organizations.
Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development - Compensation: Paid Positions(s)
Based in Washington, D.C., this organization is "committed to enhancing the lives of Palestinians and to communicating reliable and objective information about the Palestinian experience."
Jewish Peace Lobby - Compensation: Paid Positions(s)
Seeks to "promote a just and lasting resolution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by promoting peaceful negotiation of the conflict, based on Israel's right to peace and security and the Palestinian right to self-determination.
League of Women Voters - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The League of Women Voters offers a wide variety of internships at all levels of its national organization and local affiliates.
LULAC National Education Service Centers - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The League of United Latin American Citizens offers interns a variety of fields in which to gain experience as they help it fulfill its mission to advance the position of the Hispanic U.S. population. Fluency in Spanish is highly desirable.
Mennonite Central Committee - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Mennonite Central Committee is the mission organization of the Mennonite and Brethern in Christ congregations of North America. It works among the suffering to reduce poverty, conflict, and oppression. The MCC offers a wide variety of volunteer opportunties, although only a few are formally classified as internships.
Mercy Corps/Conflict Management Group - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Mercy Corps provides internships in its international relief and development programs. Contact your college or university for college credit from this internship.
Mid-South Peace and Justice Center - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Mid-South Peace and Justice Center is an interfaith, inter-racial regional organization based in Memphis. While it is volunteer-driven, it also offers internships.
Middle East Institute - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Middle East Institute provides interns the opportunity to develop leadership skills through active engagement in discussions with scholars. Its interns are unpaid, but MEI offers free language training and reimbursement for local travel expenses.
Monterey Institute of International Studies - Compensation: Paid Positions(s)
The Monterey Institute, through its Center for Non-Proliferation Studies, offers internships, as well as a program that sends interns to a variety of international non-proliferation organizations.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
Through its Youth Entrepreneurial Institute and other programs, the NAACP works to \"ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.\"
National Civic League - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
The National Civic League offers interns the opportunity to build communities through building democratic institutions. It periodically offers internships.
Network: National Catholic Social Justice Lobby - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, offers an internship equivalent through its 11-month Associate Program. Participants gain experience in legislative advocacy for "peace and economic justice in our nation and the world.
North American Congress on Latin America - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
North American Congress on Latin America interns assist in the production of NACLA\'s Report on the Americas. Knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is a plus.
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is the world's largest regional security organization. The OSCE offers short-term internships in its institutions and field missions involved in early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management, and post-conflict rehabilitation.
Oxfam America - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Oxfam America offers internships and volunteer positions at its Boston and Washington, DC offices. These structured programs allow students to contribute to Oxfam's work promoting "development programs and emergency relief services [and to] campaigns for change in global practices and policies that keep people in poverty.
Peace Brigades International USA - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Peace Brigades International is a non-governmental organization which \"protects human rights and promotes nonviolent transformation of conflicts.\" PBI offers volunteers with language skills experience in grassroots work.
Physicians for Social Responsibility - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
Physicians for Social Responsibility promotes \"public policies that protect human health from the threats of nuclear war and other weapons of mass destruction, global environmental degradation, and the epidemic of gun violence in our society today.\"
Program on Negotiation - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is "an interuniversity consortium involving faculty, graduate students, and administrative staff from a range of disciplines and professional schools." Its website provides a resource for identfying internships in the Boston area.
Project Ploughshares - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Project Ploughshares, a Canadian NGO, works \"to promote, facilitate, and implement the biblical imperative to seek peace and pursue justice, both in Canada and abroad.\" Participation is limited to Canadian youth 30 years of age or less.
Psychologists for Social Responsibility - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
Psychologists for Social Responsibility \"uses psychological knowledge and skills to promote peace with social justice at the community, national and international levels.\" It seeks interns for within the field, as well as from other disciplines.
Public Interest Research Groups - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
The state Public Interest Research Groups are a network of independent, state-based, citizen-funded organizations that advocate for the public interest." They offer a wide variety of internship opportunities in diverse areas of public policy.
Sojourners - Compensation: Paid Positions(s)
Sojourners is a faith-based mission committed to improving public life and social justice through teaching, organization, education and ministry. It offers interns "Christian discipleship, with a focus on life and faith, prayer and formation, and work and mission.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference arose from the struggle for racial and social justice led by Dr. Martin Luther Ling, Jr. It provides volunteer activities at the national and local levels.
Syracuse Peace Council - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Syracuse Peace Council is an antiwar/social justice organization. Interns from a variety of disciplines can gain practical experience working in its diverse programs.
Unitarian Universalists Service Committee - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee offers interns experience in program or administrative areas of its work advancing \"human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures, and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies.\" Most positions are at its Cambridge, Massachusetts headquarters.
United Methodist Church General Board of Church and Society - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The United Methodist Church organizes and supports faith-based outreach programs worldwide, part of its historical orientation of working toward social justice. It occasionally offers internships.
United Nations - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The United Nations offers a variety of internship opportunities through its various offices, funds, and programs. This link provides information on internships at the United Nations Secretariat New York only. Those interested in UN internships outside the New York area should directly contact the pertinent UN organizations.
United Nations Association of the USA - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The United Nations Association of the USA offers unpaid internships to students with a strong interest in international issues and multilateral insitutions.
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
UNIDIR "conducts research on disarmament and security with the aim of assisting the international community in their disarmament thinking, decisions, and efforts."
United States Committee for Refugees - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The United States Committee for Refugees addresses "the needs and rights of persons in forced or voluntary migration worldwide by advancing fair and humane public policy, facilitating and providing direct professional services, and promoting the full participation of migrants in community life." It offers internships for students in a variety of disciplines.
Verification Research, Training and Information Center - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
VERTIC is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization. Its mission is to promote effective and efficient verification as a means of ensuring confidence in the implementation of international agreements and intra-national agreements with international involvement.
Volunteers for Peace - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Volunteers for Peace "promotes International Voluntary Service as an effective means of intercultural education and community service." It is primarily a volunteer program, although college credit can be arranged for participants.
War Resisters League - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
The War Resisters League offers interns with a \"strong interest in nonviolence and pacifism\" experience in its anti-militarism, youth, and publication programs.
Washington Office on Latin America - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Washington Office on Latin America provides interns \"a wide range of exposure to the foreign policy making process and aims to familiarize its interns with current events in Latin America.\" Generally, its internships are most suitable for undergraduates.
Washington Peace Center - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Washington Peace Center is \"a multi-issue, grassroots, and anti-racist organization working for nonviolent social change in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.\" Interns receive hands on, grassroots experience in political organizing on issues of social justice.
Witness For Peace - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
Witness for Peace interns are intimately involved in its mission \"to change those United States foreign and economic policies which contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean, and to promote just alternatives.
World Policy Institute - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The World Policy Institute seeks to offer innovative policy proposals for public debate, promote greater public understanding of the relationship between domestic and international policy, and nurture a new generation of writers and public intellectuals committed to internationalist perspectives.
World Resources Institute - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
A staff of more than 100 scientists, economists, policy experts, business analysts, statistical analysts, mapmakers, and communicators works to protect the Earth and improve people's lives.
Worldwatch Institute - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Promotes an environmentally sustainable and socially just society, in which the needs of all people are met without threatening the health of the natural environment or the well-being of future generations.