IGL Internship Overview

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One of the core educational and experiential elements of the IGL are its global internships, that provide intensive on-the-ground training. Open to both graduate and undergraduate Tufts students, many are specifically designed for, and often funded by the Institute and their collaborators. Students have found themselves photographing in northern Uganda or working for the Daily Star in Beirut; working in AIDS or trauma centers in Capetown, South Africa; medical wards in Moscow, at the Hague at war crimes prosecution trials; the the National Defense University. Increasingly these are opportunities being offered by IGL alumni.

The internships usually require intensive academic preparation, either through specifically designed direction, or independent study during the academic year prior to enacting the internships.

These are opportunities for students to work directly with such prominent organizations as ACCION or the Environmental Change and Security Program of The Woodrow Wilson Center and with such prominent scholars and practitioners who this year include Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive; Dr. Svetlana Broz, Director of the NGO Garden of the Righteous in Sarajevo; Hillel Levine, Professor of Sociology and Religion and the President of the International Institute for Mediation and Historical Conciliation; VII's famed photojournalist, James Nachtwey, Richard Mollica, director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma; and Moises Naim, the editor of Foreign Policy Magazine.