Summer Field Fellowship
The Field Fellowship program provides students with a unique opportunity to learn, assist partners on the ground, engage in reflective practice, and improve their skills.
2022 Placements | 2023 Placements | 2024 Placements |
|---|---|---|
| The Atlantic Council | Academic Council on the United Nations System | The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) (Durban, South Africa) |
| Catholic Relief Services | Anti-Defamation League | The Advocacy Project, (Chiang Mai, Thailand) |
| The Center for Strategic and International Studies | The Borgen Project | Boeing, Legislative Affairs |
| Conflict Resolution Center, Montgomery County | Chemonics | Club de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) |
| DARNA Research | Dejusticia, (Bogotá, Colombia) | Club de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) |
| Girls Inc. | Department of State – MENA regional desk | Congressional-Executive Commission on China |
| International Organization for Migration, USA | Georgetown Student Ombud | CSI-Kenya (Kenya) |
| International Republican Institute (IRI) | International Organization for Migration (Dakar, Senegal) | Florida International University |
| McDermott Will & Emery | International Republican Institute (IRI) | Inter-American Development Bank |
| Mediators Beyond Borders International | International Trade Centre (Geneva, Switzerland) | International Centre for Religion and Diplomacy (Turkey) |
| Oxfam America | Partners International | Regional Plan Association (New Jersey) |
| Peloria Insights | Peace Winds Japan (Nairobi, Kenya) | Sahel Politica (Bern, Switzerland) |
| The Progressive Magazine | Search for Common Ground (Mombassa, Kenya) | United Nations Working Group for Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) |
| The Prosecution Project | Vital Voices | U.S. Agency for International Development |
| United Nations Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen (Amman, Jordan) | War Child Museum (Sarajevo, Bosnia) | U.S. Coast Guard |
| U.S. Department of Justice – International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program | When We Band Together (Lesbos, Greece) | U.S. Department of State |
| U.S. Department of State – Conflict Stabilization Operations, Negotiation Support Unit | Wilson Center, Canada Program | U.S. Department of State – Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs |
| United States Institute of Peace | World Rehabilitation Fund (Zahle, Lebanon) | United States Institute for Peace |
| United States Institute for Peace |
Previous Summer Field Fellowship Highlights
2016 Field Blog
Click on each student’s name to read their field blog:
Country: Beirut, Lebanon
Organization: Danish Refugee Council
Position: Protection Monitoring Intern
As a Protection Intern at the Danish Refugee Council in Beirut, Lebanon, Selin mainly coordinated the review and roll-out of new community- and household-level protection monitoring tools, enabling the organization to identify and track protection concerns experienced by Syrian refugees across the country. This included meeting with populations of concern and field teams to identify and respond to the challenges faced while conducting protection monitoring as well as coordinating with UN-led protection working groups to identify priority areas of investigation. Moreover, she organized and facilitated a workshop for field teams on the new protection monitoring methodology and wrote a quarterly protection monitoring report for a high-level donor. In addition to the review and rollout of the protection monitoring tools, Selin took the lead in ensuring that monthly reporting by protection field teams was timely and accurate.
Jessica Bissett & Chelsea Dunlap
Country: Gulu, Uganda
Organization: Refugee Law Project
Position: Conflict, Transitional Justice, and Governance Intern
Chelsea and Jessica worked as Conflict, Transitional Justice, and Governance interns for Refugee Law Project from May until August 2016. They worked on a variety of projects during their time in Gulu, Uganda. Chelsea and Jessica attended the Institute for African Transitional Justice and wrote the annual report on the week-long event. They also conducted interviews for and edited The Wounds Can Heal; a book of stories on survivors who had recovered from injuries caused by the war. In addition to this, they profiled and assisted victims with untreated war injuries to obtain medical treatment. Chelsea and Jessica spent much of their time conducting field interviews throughout the region to establish a relationship between depression and transitional justice and wrote a qualitative report based on this research for mental health advocacy and policies in northern Uganda. Their final project over the summer was working with the International Crimes Division and local NGOs to provide support to victims and witnesses during the Thomas Kwoyelo trial.
Yasmine Fawaz
Country: Switzerland
Organization: UNHCR
Fadia Hayee
Country: Turkey
Organization: UNDP
Country: Kenya
Organization: The Life and Peace Institute and The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation
Country: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Organization: CO-OPERATION IRELAND, Youth and Education Programs
Position: Project Management Intern
The main program Mark was assigned to at Co-operation Ireland was “Amazing the Space,” a youth and education initiative, that coincided with the UN International Day of Peace in September. “Amazing the Space” was a youth–led peacebuilding initiative that brought thousands of young people together from across Northern Ireland to celebrate their contributions to peace and to show them that play an important role in building and sustaining a peaceful society moving forward. He reported directly to the CEO and the Director of Fundraising as well as colleagues from partnering organizations. Mark’s main tasks included various aspects of program planning, such as procurement, graphic design coordination, research, and data collection. Additionally, he was responsible for communication and logistic support around the “Amazing the Space” launch event that took place at the end of June.
Country: Beirut, Lebanon
Organization: Mercy Corps & Protection Intern, Danish Refugee Council
Position: Program Development and Quality Intern
As a fellow in the Program Development and Quality Unit of Mercy Corps Lebanon, Mirjam prepared the organization’s annual country strategy, conducted background research on child labor and early marriage, and wrote the child protection and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) strategies with national staff and regional coordinators. She further proofread and line-edited weekly donor reports, conducted interviews in the field offices to assess needs and improve coordination mechanisms with the headquarter, and established a knowledge management database to enhance integrated programming. During the second half of her stay, she worked as a Protection Intern at the Danish Refugee Council, where she developed a pilot conflict transformation program for adolescent boys and girls of refugee and host communities, wrote communication material, and participated in interagency coordination meetings.
Alissa Lalime
Country: Cairo, Egypt, with temporary duties in Amman, Jordan, and Tunis, Tunisia
Organization: International Organization for Migration (IOM) Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Position: Department of Operations and Emergencies (DOE) Intern
Alissa created Migration Crisis Operational Framework (MCOF) documents in collaboration with Country Offices in the MENA region. In doing so, she aggregated existing resources and materials available to Country Offices, and developed new materials, as required. Alissa interviewed Country, Regional, and Headquarters colleagues on their interaction with the MCOF. She additionally submitted a final report on my findings, including strategies and recommendations for enhanced MCOF implementation. Her work culminated in MCOF strategy documents with IOM Libya, IOM Sudan, and IOM Yemen.
Country: Liberia
Organization: The Kaizen Company
Position: Program Officer
For Nick’s summer internship, he interned in Liberia as a Program Officer for a U.S. Department of State-funded project called Mitigating Local Disputes in Liberia (MLDL); implemented by The Kaizen Company. There, he supports the project by designing and implementing mediation training and an organizational self-assessment to strengthen over 30 community and governmental security councils (structures) in their ability to identify and peacefully resolve security concerns. Nick also worked closely with the home office in Washington to research monitoring and evaluation indicators, help manage and analyze a large database of security concerns, and use the data uncovered by the assessments to write a progress report on each structure. Though his internship was based in Ganta, his tasks gave him the opportunity to travel throughout the country to visit the various structures and conduct mediation training. This experience was invaluable as it afforded Nick the opportunity to learn about the challenges of doing peacebuilding work in the field as well as how it relates to West African culture.