Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation Internship 2026: Sustaining Peace – YOA

Deadline: April 17, 2026

Applications are open for the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation Internship 2026: Sustaining Peace. The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation is providing an internship place for energetic grasp degree college students and up to date graduates in peace and battle, worldwide relations, or different related thematic areas for the fall semester of 2026.

The intern can be part of the Foundation’s Sustaining Peace staff and can contribute to its work to advance commitments amongst Member States, worldwide monetary establishments, improvement banks and personal sector actors to accomplice with and mobilise progressive and sustainable sources for inclusive battle prevention and peacebuilding. As part of this work, the intern will assist the Foundation’s work on Investing and Partnering with Youth for Peace (IPYP) — a multi-stakeholder platform housed on the Foundation aimed toward strengthening youth-led peacebuilding by way of progressive partnerships and useful resource mobilisation. The intern may also interact with broader thematic areas beneath the Sustaining Peace programme, together with on the Peacebuilding Architecture and different multilateral or UN-associated processes.

The place is designed to supply each focus and adaptability, permitting house for the intern to discover their very own areas of curiosity whereas gaining significant publicity to the Foundation’s wider peacebuilding agenda.

Responsibilities

• Support the Foundation’s work to advance peacebuilding financing, together with by way of engagement with improvement banks and worldwide monetary establishments to discover progressive and blended finance mechanisms. 
• Support the staff in creating toolkits for younger peacebuilders and personal sector actors aimed toward strengthening partnerships for peacebuilding.  
• Support continued engagement with the Swedish video video games sector, together with by way of the planning and implementation of recreation jam-impressed occasions to discover how peace narratives might be built-in inside video games. 
• Support communications of the Foundation’s Sustaining Peace work, together with by way of blogs, abstract stories and coverage briefs, and creating content material for IPYP’s LinkedIn web page. 
• Assist with administrative and logistical duties equivalent to word-taking, challenge documentation and occasion planning. 
• Collaborate with different groups at the Foundation and contribute to their work as required. 
• Support efforts to monitor programmatic outputs and outcomes. 
• Other duties as wanted to assist the Foundation’s work to advance the Sustaining Peace agenda, together with engagement within the Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development and different dialogues between the UN and regional organisations.

Eligibility

• Currently finishing or lately accomplished a grasp’s diploma in peace and battle research, worldwide relations, improvement research, sustainability and company social accountability, or associated topics. 
• Demonstrated information on the UN system’s—and that of different worldwide and regional organisations—work to forestall conflicts and construct peace, efforts to finance peace efforts and/or the position of the non-public sector in supporting peacebuilding and partnering with youth peacebuilders
• Some work expertise or previous internship centered on peacebuilding, sustaining peace or company social accountability is fascinating
• Excellent working information of English (together with means to supply written supplies). Knowledge of different languages is fascinating, though not a requirement.  

Application

Send your accomplished functions to [email protected] no later than 17 April 2026, with “Last Name, First Name: Internship Application-Sustaining Peace” within the topic heading. The application needs to be in English and embody a brief letter of curiosity, a CV, and a writing pattern (max 3 pages) – an essay or an excerpt from a thesis or report out of your research. Interviews can be performed on a rolling foundation.  

International candidates should make sure that their pupil residence allow in Sweden permits them to undertake an internship. If the internship shouldn’t be part of their formal research in Sweden, a separate allow from the Swedish Migration Agency could also be required earlier than making use of.

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