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MISSION

The Advocacy Project seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice

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Under the program Fellows for Peace, AP recruits graduate students to volunteer with partners and help them apply AP’s model of information capacity-building.

AP views Fellows as ambassadors for peace who reach out to other cultures and peoples in a spirit of friendship and allow their hosts to engage with US-based advocates for social change.

Peace Fellows also act as AP’s “foot soldiers.” Although they only serve for three months in the field, their task is to be a catalyst and help their hosts develop information tools that can be sustained after they leave. Also, they continue to represent their hosts when they return to the US.

Fellows for Peace is targeted at graduate students in the middle of their Masters program who will still benefit from the program in their second year of studies. We also hope that the experience of working side by side with human rights advocates will build leadership skills and a life-long commitment to human rights. This will prove particularly valuable to those pursuing a career in international development.

This service is offered free of charge to our community-based partners. Requests for Fellows are also welcomed from NGOs and agencies that work directly with community-based advocates, as long as they provide the Fellow with opportunities to work directly in communities.

The number of Fellows recruited in any one year depends on AP’s own resources and our ability to service the program. Fellows are recruited in April and receive three days of training in Washington in May. This helps to prepare them for their assignments and, hopefully, acquire new skills. Training also covers the important issue of security.

“The Peace Fellows have rejuvenated my team, especially me, with the American optimism”- Chong Sheau Ching, Director of the Malaysian eHomemakers

For more information contact Tassos Coulaloglou, Fellowship Manager.

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