Genocide Watch, Inc., the world’s first anti-genocide NGO, and the founder and Chair of the International Alliance to End Genocide, seeks two Summer and two Fall Interns.  The Summer interns could begin work as early as late April, 2014 and would conclude their internships by the end of August, 2014 or beginning of the next school year.  The Fall interns would begin in August or early September 2014 and conclude in December 2014.

Interns build and daily keep up the Genocide Watch website, www.genocidewatch.net . They update Country Reports, and write Genocide Alerts on situations at risk of genocide or other crimes against humanity.  The Alerts are published on the website, and are also sent directly to key policy makers in the US, UK, French and other governments on the UN Security Council, as well as to key UN officials such as the Special Adviser of the UN Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide.  Genocide Watch President Dr. Gregory Stanton has close personal relationships with many of these policy makers.

Genocide Watch works from offices in the affiliated School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution of George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, near the GMU-Virginia Square Metro stop on the Orange Line, making it unnecessary for interns to own a car.  Computers, either Macs or PC’s, are provided, in the comfortable, air-conditioned office.

Genocide Watch interns attend meetings in Washington, DC with other NGO’s and government officials concerned about people in special danger, and are free to attend the many programs at the US Institute of Peace and other think tanks in Washington, DC.

The www.genocidewatch.org archive is the deepest in the field and has received over 55 million hits from 2000 through 2013.  It is relied on by genocide scholars and activists around the world.  Prof. Stanton’s forthcoming short textbook for secondary schools, The Ten Stages of Genocide, will be adopted in many states, and translated into numerous languages, and distributed free on the internet.

Due to its small operating budget, Genocide Watch interns have never been paid, but traditionally Dr. Stanton takes the Genocide Watch team to lunch each week and takes them on field trips around the Washington, DC area.  A superb public swimming pool and exercise facilities two blocks away from GMU are open for membership at low cost.

Interns may apply for one of the accredited summer internship programs that give academic credit for their work (American University is one), or arrange for graded academic credit to be given directly by their own college, university, or professional school.

Apply in writing to President@genocidewatch.org including your contact information (e-mail, phone numbers, Skype name, educational institution, and mailing address) with a brief cover letter explaining why you would like to do an internship with Genocide Watch. Please attach your resumé including languages you speak fluently, copy of your transcript, and names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of two people who have agreed to serve as references for you.  The strongest candidates will be asked to interview by Skype (or telephone) with Prof. Stanton.

The decisions about the two people accepted for Genocide Watch Summer internships will be made by May 15, 2014.  The decisions about Fall internships will be made by August 15. 2014.