We invite applications from students and recent graduates who are passionate about advancing human rights, pluralism, and active citizenship. The programs are testing grounds for thinking anew with activists, artists, experts, policymakers, and scholars about complex issues of diversity in historical and contemporary terms. They focus—through a collective exploration of some of today's most challenging human rights issues—on memory, identity, and on building bridges within democratic societies. These Fellowship opportunities pave the way into an active alumni network with further professional, educational, and financial support.
For applicants applying from Europe, the deadline to apply is February 10, 2019.
Fellowships in Europe
Humanity in Action Germany invites applications to participate in Fellowships taking place in Berlin, Copenhagen, Sarajevo, and Warsaw.
The Humanity in Action Fellowships seek to address some of the destructive common roots of prejudice, discrimination, and dehumanization, exploring how these relate to and translate into contemporary human rights issues in the respective Fellowship countries. Key areas of the four-week inquiries differ from program to program and include national identity, remembrance culture, immigration, homo- and transphobia, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism, political extremism, and the discrimination of Roma – all seen through the specific lens of the contexts in which the Fellowships take place.
Fellowship in the United States
Humanity in Action Germany invites applications to participate in the John Lewis Fellowship in Atlanta, Georgia.
The John Lewis Fellowship maintains a focus on pluralism and the relationship between majority and minority groups in the United States. The 2019 theme for the Fellowship program in Atlanta is "Grassroots Solidarities: Interrogating the Past and Navigating the Present to Prepare for the Future." Fellows will take part in collaborative experiential learning through dialogue, reflection, problem-solving, and service around the question: How do solidarities coalesce and coalitions form across cleavages of race, culture, gender, class, and religion? Humanity in Action is happy to partner with The National Center for Civil and Human Rights in the John Lewis Fellowship in Atlanta, Georgia, honoring U.S. Representative and icon of the Civil Rights Movement John Lewis.
Humanity in Action's Mission and Network
The Humanity in Action Fellowships seek to educate, connect, and inspire emerging and established social justice leaders active in the broadest range of fields – government and diplomacy, journalism, entrepreneurship and trade, grassroots activism, academia, culture, and the arts.
Upon successful completion of the four-week on-site Fellowship program, Fellows develop and implement an Action Project in their own communities and are invited to join the global community of over 2,000 Humanity in Action Senior Fellows. As Senior Fellows, they are eligible for advanced professional, educational, and financial opportunities, such as Fellowships in the European Parliament, or nonprofit organizations, human rights-related study trips, fora, conferences in Europe and the US, and grants to translate their own ideas for societal progress into reality.
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