Organization (and Internship Link) |
Compensation |
Location |
American Council for the United Nations University |
Unpaid |
Washington, DC or abroad |
American Defense Institute (ADI) |
Unpaid |
Washington, DC |
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) |
Unpaid |
Washington, DC |
American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) |
Unpaid |
Washington, DC |
American Nuclear Society (ANS) |
Varies |
Varies |
American Society of
International Law (ASIL) |
Varies |
Varies |
Arms Control Association (ACA) |
Daily Stipend |
Washington, DC |
Atlantic Council of the US |
Unpaid |
Washington, DC |
Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) |
Unpaid |
Bonn, Germany (must have Bachelor's degree) |
British American Security Information Council (BASIC) |
Unpaid |
Washington, DC; London |
Brookings Institution |
Unpaid |
Washington, DC |
Business Executives for National Security (BENS) |
Unspecified |
Washington, DC |
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) |
Unpaid |
London, UK |
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
Varies |
Washington, DC |
Carter Center - Internship Program/Graduate Assistantship Program |
$3,500 for ten weeks full-time |
Atlanta, GA |
CATO Institute |
Monthly Stipend |
Washington, DC |
Center for Applied Studies in International Negotiations (CASIN) |
Small monthly stipend for those committing to 4 to 6 months (except junior interns) |
Geneva, Switzerland |
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation |
$500/month, 32 hrs/week, 3-4 months in fall, spring or summer |
Washington, DC |
Center for Defense Information (CDI) |
Paid |
Washington, DC |
Center for International Policy (CIP) |
Unpaid |
Washington, DC |
Center for International Trade and Security (CITS) |
Unspecified |
Athens, GA |
Center for National Policy (CNP) |
Unpaid |
Washington, DC |
Center for Security Policy (CSP) |
Unpaid |
Washington, DC |
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) — undergraduate students |
Weekly stipend |
Washington, DC |
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) |
Varies |
Washington, DC |
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) |
Stipend Varies |
New York; Washington, DC |
Eisenhower Institute |
Unpaid |
Washington, DC |
Everett Public Service Internship Program (temporarily suspended) |
$280/week for ten weeks |
Varies |
Fund for Peace |
Unspecified |
Washington D.C. |
Global Green USA: Security & Sustainability Program Internship |
Unpaid, academic credit available |
Washington, D.C.; LA |
Global Security Institute (GSI) |
Unspecified |
Philadelphia,
New York,
Washington D.C.,
New Zealand |
GlobalSecurity.org |
Unpaid |
Alexandria, VA, USA |
Henry L. Stimson Center |
Stipend |
Washington, DC |
Heritage Foundation |
Paid |
Washington, DC |
Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (IDDS) |
Unpaid |
Cambridge, MA |
Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA) |
Paid if full-time |
Washington, DC |
Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) |
Unspecified (contact INSS_Intern_Program@ndu.edu) |
Washington, DC |
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) |
Unpaid |
Washington, DC |
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) |
Stipend |
Washington, DC |
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), temporarily suspended |
Stipend |
Washington, DC (Grad students only) |
International Peace Bureau (IPB) |
Unpaid |
Geneva |
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) |
Small Stipend |
London (Grad students only) Washington, D.C. Singapore |
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS)
IONP Internships for MIIS Students
Summer Undergraduate Internship
Washington, DC Nonproliferation Internship |
Varies |
Geneva, Vienna, Hague, Mexico City, New York, Washington, DC, Monterey |
Jamestown Foundation |
Varies |
Washington, DC |
Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) |
Unspecified |
Tokyo, Japan |
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego |
Unpaid |
San Diego, CA, USA |
NYU Center on Law and Security |
Unspecified |
New York City, USA |
National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) |
Varies |
Seattle, Washington, USA |
National Council on US-Arab Relations (NCUSAR) |
Unpaid |
Washington, DC |
National Defense Council Foundation (NDCF) |
$7.50/day |
Arlington, VA |
National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP) |
Unspecified |
Fairfax, VA Washington, D.C. |
National Security Archive |
Unpaid |
Washington, DC |
NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace, and Security |
Unpaid |
New York |
Nixon Center |
Unpaid |
Washington, DC |
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation;
Lena Chang Internship |
Paid |
Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
Oxford Research Group (ORG) |
10 pounds/day |
Oxford, UK |
PIR (Center for Policy Studies in Russia) |
Paid |
Moscow, Russia |
Peace Action |
Varies |
Varies |
Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt (PRIF) |
Unpaid |
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany |
Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) |
Various opportunities |
Oslo, Norway |
Project Ploughshares, Canada |
$1,400/month |
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) |
Paid |
New York, US, Geneva, Switzerland
|
RAND Corporation |
Stipend |
Santa Monica, CA, Arlington, VA, Pittsburgh, PA USA |
Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council (RANSAC) |
Unspecified |
Washington, DC |
Safeworld.org.uk |
Average 9,000 pounds/year |
London, UK |
Search for Common Ground (SFCG) |
Varies |
Varies |
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) |
Unpaid |
Stockholm, Sweden |
Student Pugwash USA (SPUSA) |
Small travel and lunch stipend |
Washington, DC |
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) |
Stipends Vary |
Washington, DC |
VERIFIN (Finnish Institute for Verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention) |
Unspecified |
Helsinki, Finland |
Verification Research, Training & Education Centre (VERTIC) |
Unpaid |
London, UK |
Washington Institute for Near East Policy |
Varies |
Washington, DC |
Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control |
Paid |
Washington, DC |
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) |
Round-trip ticket, small stipend, accommodation |
Geneva, Switzerland |
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |
Both paid and unpaid |
Washington, DC |
World Policy Institute (WPI) |
Unpaid |
New York, US |
World Security Institute (WSI) |
Paid |
Washington, D.C. |