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Fellowship and Research Opportunities for Students and Professionals
The Fulbright Scholar Program offers U.S. faculty, administrators and professionals grants to lecture or do research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields, or to participate in seminars. For information on Fulbright Scholar Awards, consult our website at www.cies.org for descriptions of awards and new eligibility requirements. If you are interested in more information, please write to scholars@cies.iie.org.
Fellowships with Human Rights First offer recent law school graduates an opportunity to explore real world application of international human rights law in national settings, working closely with our highly qualified and experienced staff.
Human Rights Watch's Alan R. and Barbara D. Finberg Fellowship
Fellows work full time for one year at Human Rights Watch, based in New York City or Washington, D.C. Fellows monitor human rights developments in various countries, conduct on-site investigations, draft reports on human rights conditions, and engage in advocacy aimed at publicizing and curtailing human rights violations.
ABA CEELI Legal Analyst Fellowship
Legal practitioners have the opportunity to join CEELI's staff on a one-year contract basis as Legal Analysts in the Office of Rule of Law Research. The Legal Analysts are relied upon to conduct in-depth legal research and provide analysis of issues related to the rule of law and legal reform in emerging democracies and transitioning states.
Center for International Environmental Law's Louis B. Sohn Fellowship
This fellowship offers the opportunity for a recent law school graduate to work at the Center for International Environmental Law in their Human Rights and Environment Program. Fellow will seek to identify and develop connections between human rights and environmental protection.
United States Institute of Peace Research Fellowship
The Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace awards Senior Fellowships to enable outstanding scholars to conduct research at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program
To further this goal, and to strengthen the ties of friendship and understanding between the United States and Germany, the foundation sponsors a fellowship program that enables young American professionals to participate in an intensive work and study program in Germany.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
The Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues.
Open Society Institute International Policy Fellowships
The International Policy Fellowships Program (IPF) identifies and nurtures the next generation of open society leaders in the countries of the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and Mongolia. From 2005, IPF activities will diversify into two main program areas: an impact-oriented fellowships program designed for leaders with proven policymaking and advocacy experience, and a public policy capacity development program providing assistance to up-and-coming policy researchers at local and regional levels.
Alexander von Humboldt: German Chancellor Scholarship
Ten German Chancellor Scholarships are awarded annually to prospective leaders from the US enabling them to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany.
Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute Teaching Fellowship
The objective is to equip participants in the Program with the academic tools and experience they will need to embark successfully upon the path of teaching human rights law. Teaching Fellows audit courses drawn from the human rights curricula offered at the law school and other departments within the Columbia University system.
Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute LLM Human Rights Fellowship
Human Rights Fellows receive funding towards tuition, room, and board for the LL.M. program at Columbia Law School. The successful LL.M. Human Rights Fellowship applicant is committed to human rights scholarship and/or advocacy and intends to work in the human rights field following completion of the program.
Crowley Program in International Human Rights Teaching Fellowship
The Crowley Program is administered by a fellow who is a law school graduate. The Fellow, as a member of the adjunct faculty, will teach an elective seminar in human rights in preparation for the annual fact-finding mission during the spring semester.
U.S. Agency for International Development World Learning Democracy Fellows Program
The Democracy Fellows Program places fellows in USAID/Washington and in USAID missions overseas. Democracy Fellows help to strengthen democratic institutions, programs, practices and activities in emerging and transitional democracies.
Organization of American States Fellowship
Every year, the Agency provides several hundred fellowships for undergraduate and graduate studies and research at universities through out the region and awards for specialized, short-term training at educational institutions and training centers in OAS Member and Observer States.
New Voices is a national leadership development program that helps nonprofit organizations recruit innovative, new talent. It awards salary-support grants to small nonprofits demonstrating a commitment to cultivating and strengthening the leadership potential of creative and diverse "new voices" in the field.
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Fellowships
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Fellows Programs bring together a diverse group of human rights practitioners, scholars and activists to conduct research on human rights policy, contribute to the Center's programs, and participate in broader dialogue with students, faculty and researchers in the Harvard community.
UN Institute for Training and Research Fellowship Programme in International Law
The Fellowship Programme is jointly organized by the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs and the United Nations Insitute for Training and Research (UNITAR). The fellowships are intended to enable qualified professionals from developing countries and countries with economies in transition, in particular mid-level government officials and young university teachers of international law, to acquire additional knowledge on international law and on the legal work of the United Nations and its associated bodies.