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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 in Africa," returned 35 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.
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.
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.
AIESEC Illinois - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The primary activity of AIESEC, the largest student-run exchange organization in the world, is facilitation of work abroad exchange programs between its member countries. AIESEC Illinois was founded in 1971.
American Committee on Africa - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and the Africa Fund (AF), an educational humanitarian organization associated with ACOA, offer international relations and public policy internships to mobilize Americans in support of "freedom, independence, and economic justice," especially including human rights and women's issues.
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 National Policy - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Promotes debate and the free exchange of progressive ideas on national policy.
Center for Security Policy - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Provides analysis of security issues relevant to U.S. national interests to policy makers with the objective of achieving \"world peace through American strength.
Center for Strategic and International Security (CSIS) - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Analyzes strategic trends to produce policy solutions while training tomorrow\'s leaders.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The United States civilian agency for intelligence gathering and analysis.
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.
Council on Foreign Relations - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
A non-partisan organization dedicated to disseminating information to increase understanding of the issues facing the United States and other governments.
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.
Forum for International Policy - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Articulates a clear, consistent voice in support of American world leadership.
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.
Initiatives of Change - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
An informal, international network of people of all faiths and backgrounds working to change the world by first seeking change in their own lives.
Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution (IIMCR) - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
IIMCR is a Washington, DC-based institution that promotes the use of peaceful conflict resolution techniques. Their web site posts job openings at various other relevant organizations and provides links to job and internship resources.
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 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.
InternAbroad.com - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
An excellent resource to finding an internship abroad.
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.
National Peace Foundation - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Promotes the development and implementation of conflict resolution education and training in the U.S. and peace-building and democracy building internationally, especially in Russia and the South Caucasus Republics.
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.
South African Exchange Program on Environmental Justice - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The South African Exchange Program on Environmental Justice "focuses on the effects of toxics and the deteriorating environment on the health and daily lives of communities in South Africa... to bridge communities in the US with their counterparts in South Africa around environmental justice.
TransAfrica Forum - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
An organization analyzing U.S. policy in Africa and Latin America
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 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.
Washington Office on Africa - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
The Washington Office on Africa seeks "to articulate and promote a just American policy toward Africa." Since it is a small organization, interns receive exposure to the full range of its work.
Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control - Compensation: Unpaid Positions(s)
Operated under the auspices of the University of Wisconsin, this Washington, D.C.-based group works to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - Compensation: Paid/Unpaid Positions(s)
A nonpartisan institution, supported by public and private funds, engaged in the study of national and world affairs.