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Internship Opportunities

The Peace Academy Foundation (PAF) welcomes applications for internships and volunteering within its different projects and administration. PAF offers internships for individuals interested in learning more about peacebuilding, conflict transformation and other related processes. Other then that, interns will gain practical knowledge in working within an NGO and implementing projects.

The internship can be part-time (2 days in a week) or full-time. The internship must be for a period of minimum one month. The internship is unpaid.

Who is eligible to apply for internship or volunteering?

An inter or volunteer must be at least 21 years old; with good computer skills; good knowledge of English; proactive, independet and team-oriented; have excellent organizational skills; and most important a strong interest and/or background in peacebuilding, peace studies or conflict resolution.

All internships (full- and part-time) will accommodate a flexible schedule. Internships are located in Sarajevo.

Please send a cover letter and your resume to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Employment

There are no openings at the time. Please check back with us for future opportunities.

Strategic priorities for the period 2012-2014

Our strategic goal is to provide infrastructure  for continuous synergetic development of a culture of peace in the region. We achieve our goal by implementing activities in two key areas: 

  • Improved strategic and transformative - both theoretical and practical - work in the field of peacebuilding 
  • Resource center for practical and theoretical work in the filed of peacebuilding 

Our immediate objective is to improve the work of peacebuilders in terms of being knowledge-based, more effective, visible and synergetic. We achieve this through the implementation of activities within the two above mentioned key areas which include:

  • Post-Yugoslav Peace Academy - PYPA (a 10-day intensive summer school organized since 2008 each year in Sarajevo where eminent professors and experts in peacebuilding and related fields hold three parallel courses);
  • Follow-up on PYPA participants' activities in their communities in order to to obtain information about their application of skills and knowledge acquired during PYPA in their everyday work and to support them in further peacebuilding activities;
  • Activities which aim to develop additional resources to support peacebuilding practitioners in their daily work such as promotion of the importance of peace education, providing access to an on-line library which contains collected open-source texts about peacebuilding, translation and publishing of peacebuilding literature in local languages, and research projects. 

Since 2009, the Peace Academy Foundation has been supported in different ways by the following partner organizations:

Apart from the above mentioned organizations, we have partnered with the following organizations on single projects: 

List of donors and sponsors which support or have supported the Peace Academy Foundation

Donors:

  • European Consortium for Political Research - Critical Peace and Conflict Studies Standing Group (2020 Summer Course)
  • World Learning (Participant Training Program exchanges with the Ukraine 2015-2017)
  • Mennonite Central Committee (2008-2018)
  • Croatian National Foundation for Civil Society Development (2015) 
  • Norwegian Embassy (2013)
  • Open Society Institute (2013)
  • Balkan Trust for Democracy (2010-2011)
  • Geneva Quaker Fund (2011)

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Ubleha for idiots

  • Source of verification

    A place and manner of final verification of indicators (See) to prove how a result (See) was achieved, namely, how a certain activity (See) (for which money was granted) was  really implemented, which makes the project (See) seemingly more realistic – because it is linked to something that exists (i.e. XZ archive in the XY building) – but at the same time relatively more expensive (if someone were to really check the above-mentioned indicators in the above-mentioned manner and at the mentioned place  so that every donor rather chooses the more favourable option: to believe one’s word (See: report) that the money was spent as planned. The source of verification always implies additional activities [namely, additional investments which, as a rule, are not calculated into the project budget of the application (See)] which would lead to its verification (See).

from Ubleha for Idiots – An Absolutely non useful Guide for Civil Society Building and Project management for Locals and Internationals in BiH and Beyond by Nebojša Šavija-Valha and Ranko Milanovic-Blank, ALBUM No. 20, 2004, Sarajevo, translated by Marina Vasilj.