Deadline: 13-Feb-22
The Humanity in Action is seeking applications for the Sarajevo Fellowship 2022.
The City of Sarajevo and its surrounding region provides a unique case study in how groups with different identities coexist. It is one of just a few truly “multiconfessional” cities in the world, but it also has one of the bloodiest and most tumultuous recent histories of any country in Europe.
The Sarajevo Fellowship delves into nuanced discussion of transitional justice, post-conflict identity politics, peace-building and socioeconomic transformation in marginalized local communities.
By challenging Fellows’ perspectives on human rights issues, the program aims to interrogate their own assumptions and encouraged them to question their scope and depth of knowledge of multiculturalism; economic inequality; interfaith dialogue; post-conflict social apathy, social unrests, divided communities and social exclusions; minority experiences and representations; progressive grassroots movements; the role of media and culture in a post-conflict setting; and civic resistance to various forms of institutionalized human rights violations.
For the eleven months following the Sarajevo Fellowship, Fellows work on their Action Project: an independent venture focused on promoting democratic values in their own communities. Action Projects are as diverse as Humanity in Action Fellows. Fellows apply their new knowledge and perspectives to the communities they impact—in whatever format they find meaningful. Past Action projects have been documentaries, arts festivals, and new organizations that serve a public good. Planning for the Action Project begins in Sarajevo.
As a part of the year-long Fellowship, their Fellows first participate both in-person and virtually in an intensive three-week educational program providing a country and context-specific curriculum that examines historical and contemporary challenges to human rights, pluralism and equality. After the three weeks, they embark on developing civil society initiatives in their own communities.
The Fellowship comes with an ongoing training program to help Fellows implement their Action Projects, to continue collaborative learning and to keep in touch with their peers and the international Fellows’ community. These meetings will not exceed 2.5 hours.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications accepted from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, USA.
- Applicants to the Humanity in Action Fellowship must be one of the following:
- currently enrolled students from Bosnia & Herzegovina or at BiH-based colleges and universities; or
- recent graduates (for the 2021 Fellowship, they define recent graduates as individuals who graduated 2019 and 2020).
- If you are a Bosnian citizen studying at a foreign university, you are eligible to apply to the Humanity in Action Fellowship through Bosnia & Herzegovina. If you are a Bosnian student studying at a university in other Humanity in Action countries, you may also be eligible to apply through the Humanity in Action offices in those countries.
- If you are a non-BiH citizen studying at a university in Bosnia & Herzegovina, you are eligible to apply to the Humanity in Action Fellowship through the Bosnian office.
- If you a student or recent graduate from and/or based in Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Poland, The Netherlands, the United States or Ukraine, please select this country’s name.
For more information, visit https://www.humanityinaction.org/fellowship-sarajevo/