Featured Students

 

Our students come from a wide variety of academic, demographic and professional

backgrounds, reflecting the rapidly growing interest in conflict resolution.



At a Glance:

  • Students have come from over 30 countries & six continents
  • 20% arrive with a previously obtained graduate degree
  • 26 is the average age of incoming students
  • The average gender balance is 31% male, 69% female

 

 

Alumni

We are committed to helping our students with their future endeavors, around the world

and in a variety of sectors. Our global alumni network, now almost 200 in number,

represents a fraction of the possibilities that are open to our program's students.


Below is a sample of fields and organizations where our alumni are represented: 

 

Advanced Academic Degrees

  • Columbia Law School
  • University College London
  • Central European University
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Indiana University Maurer School of Law
  • Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
  • University of Ottawa
  • Osgoode Hall Law School, York University Toronto

 

For-Profit

  • ADP
  • APCO Worldwide
  • Artist Pension Trust
  • Brokerage Firm
  • Haaretz newspaper
  • Hotel Management
  • Law offices
  • Max-Security Solutions Ltd.
  • Samsung
  • Sensation International

 

Government Agencies

  • Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Israeli Defense Forces
  • South Korean Ministry of National Defense
  • Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • U.S. Department of State
 

Politics

  • AIPAC
  • Partners for Progressive Israel

 

Think-Tanks and Policy Centers 

  • Institute for National Strategic Studies

 

International Government Organizations

  • Aga Khan Foundation Canada/Aga Khan Development Network

  • European Parliament

  • European Union

  • International Committee of the Red Cross
  • Mercy Corps
  • United Nations
  • UNRWA

 

Non-Profit: Human Rights and Development

  • African Refugee Development Center (Israel)
  • Amnesty International
  • Givat Haviva (Israel)
  • Human Rights Campaign
  • NATAL (Israel)
  • SUSTRANS (UK)
  • The Arab-Jewish Community Center (Israel)
  • U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)
 

Non-Profit: International Relations

  • Elnet
  • Leadel

 

Teaching

  • Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico

 

In addition, students and alumni have been interested in the following fields:


1. Service in national Ministries of Foreign Affairs, with their networks of Embassies and Consulates across the globe. Diplomatic officers can become involved in all manner of political, economic and developmental negotiations from junior levels up to the senior rank of ambassador. Entry is usually by application and a competitive process.



2. The Agencies, Funds and Programmes of the United Nations (eg World Bank, IMF, UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, WFP, FAO, UNFPA, etc) offer a wide range of programmes and activities across the developing world.

 

3. International and National Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), of which there are a great many throughout both the developed and developing world. They are active in a wide range of human rights, developmental, social, environmental and humanitarian efforts in the most problematic areas of the planet; To cite just a few, Save the Children (US and UK), OXFAM, World Vision, Care International, UN Watch,etc...

 

4. Different UN bodies:

  • The United Nations Secretariat has also for many years conducted a recruitment process for young people to join the UN and to be trained and developed for senior positions in the various organs of the Secretariat, eg the Departments of Political Affairs, Peace-Keeping, Disarmament, the General Assembly and Security Council.
  • The United Nations Volunteer programme is yet another channel for entry into the UN family, both for young and old, ie those who are beginning their careers as well as those who feel that that they can contribute after normal retirement. For example thousands of UN volunteers have been deployed over the years as election monitors in places such as Cambodia, East Timor,  Afghanistan, and many others.
  • Internships with the United Nations, largely but not solely at UN headquarters locations in New York, Geneva, Vienna, and Nairobi.
  • the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which is represented in more than 120 nations world-wide, offers a Leadership Programme for young people under their mid-thirties, aimed at developing the future senior officers of UNDP. Applications for this (highly-competitive) recruitment channel are invited  annually;


5. The International Red Cross Movement comprising the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross Societies, and which have battalions of young people working for them from all parts of the world and in many parts of the world.



6. Other International Organisations, such as the European Union/European Commission, Organisation of American States, the Association
of South-East Asian Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and many more.



7. The International Corporate Private Sector, particularly those which incorporate a mandate of social responsibility within their international
activities.

 

8. Think Tanks around the world.

 

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