Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program 2027-2028 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: January 5, 2027

Applications are open for the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program 2027-2028. Named in honor of NED’s principal founders, former president Ronald Reagan and the late congressman Dante Fascell (D-Fl.), the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program is a federally funded, worldwide change program that gives democracy activists, journalists, civil society leaders, and students from world wide the OPPORTUNITY to spend 5 months in residence on the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in Washington, D.C., with a view to undertake impartial analysis on democracy in a selected nation or area.

Located inside NED’s International Forum for Democratic Studies, a number one middle for evaluation of world democratic developments, this system gives a collegial setting and wealthy mental setting for instructional change {and professional} improvement.

The program provides 5-month fellowships for practitioners to enhance methods and methods for constructing democracy overseas and 5-month fellowships for students to conduct authentic analysis for publication. While in residence, fellows mirror on their experiences; have interaction with counterparts; conduct analysis and writing; think about greatest practices and classes realized; and develop skilled relationships inside a worldwide community of democracy advocates. Fellows are anticipated to finish a written or audiovisual product regarding their proposed analysis venture. The fellowship culminates in a proper presentation through which fellows usually concentrate on their analysis venture or one other subject regarding the state of democracy of their nation.

Fellowship Tracks

• Practitioner Track: Prospective candidates might apply on both the practitioner or scholarly monitor. The Reagan-Fascell program is meant primarily for practitioners from growing and aspiring democracies, and people from non-democratic nations. Applicants making use of to the practitioner monitor are anticipated to have substantial sensible expertise working to advertise democracy or human rights of their nation of origin or curiosity. There aren’t any particular diploma necessities for the practitioner monitor. While there are additionally no age limits, candidates on the practitioner monitor are usually mid-profession professionals with a number of years of labor expertise within the subject of democracy and human rights. Examples of eligible candidates for the practitioner monitor embrace human rights advocates, civil society leaders, political social gathering figures, human rights attorneys, parliamentarians, labor union activists, journalists, and different members of the media.
• Scholarly Track: Prospective candidates might apply on both the practitioner or scholarly monitor. While this system is meant primarily for practitioners from world wide, distinguished students from the United States and different established democracies are additionally eligible to apply. Applicants making use of to the scholarly monitor are anticipated to own a doctorate (a Ph.D., or tutorial equal) on the time of application, to have printed of their subject of experience, and to have developed an in depth analysis define for his or her fellowship venture. Examples of eligible candidates for the scholarly monitor embrace school and college professors, analysts at analysis facilities and suppose tanks, writers, and public intellectuals.

Benefits

• Program Activities: Through its calendar of seminars, roundtables, subject journeys, and different occasions, this system seeks to: (a) construct data concerning the work of the Endowment and its core institutes; (b) present schooling regarding democracy by subject journeys and seminars; (c) help outreach for dialogue and interplay with the governmental, nongovernmental, tutorial, and media communities round city and past; and (d) promote a way of collegiality amongst fellows as a gaggle. In addition, fellows profit from the various casual social and cultural actions that this system has to supply, together with journeys to sporting occasions, museums, films, and joyful hours.
• Financial Support: Each fellow receives a month-to-month stipend for residing bills, plus primary medical insurance and roundtrip journey to and from Washington, D.C., at the start and finish of the fellowship interval. Fellowship funds are calculated to cowl value of a brief-time period, furnished rental residence, plus “cost of living” for meals, native transportation, and different requirements. Fellows are supplied with a completely outfitted workplace, plus a restricted finances for lengthy-distance cellphone calls {and professional} journey throughout the United States. Note that fellows who want to deliver members of the family with them to Washington, D.C., shall be anticipated to cowl the prices of their dependents’ roundtrip journey and keep throughout the United States.
• Research Associates: Research associates are assigned to work with a number of fellows and supply essential help in quite a lot of methods: consulting with fellows on the form and path of their tasks, offering analysis, written, and editorial help on points regarding the speculation and follow of democracy, facilitating outreach, aiding within the preparation and observe-up of fellows’ public shows, and offering different help as mandatory.
• Democracy Resource Center: Housed at NED, the Democracy Resource Center (DRC) is staffed by 4 librarians and accommodates roughly 20,000 works, together with books, journals, grantee experiences, and different publications on democracy.
• Visas: Prior to their arrival within the United States, potential fellows who’re neither residents nor everlasting residents of the United States should receive a J-1 change customer visa with a view to journey to the United States. Accompanying members of the family should receive a J-2 visa. Fellowship candidates can’t have participated in a J-1 analysis scholar program throughout the 24 months instantly previous their Reagan-Fascell fellowship. Fellows who’re sponsored on the J-1 visa are usually required by U.S. regulation to return to their home nation for 2 years following the completion of their fellowship earlier than they might apply for an H visa, an L visa, or for authorized everlasting residence.

Eligibility

All candidates ought to:

• Demonstrate proficiency within the English language
• Propose a venture specializing in the political, social, financial, authorized or cultural features of democratic improvement
• Be out there to work in residence on the International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington, D.C. throughout the 5-month fellowship interval. No different fellowships or jobs could also be held right now

Applicants on the practitioner monitor ought to:

• Have substantial sensible expertise working to advertise democracy or human rights of their nation of origin or curiosity
• Be mid-profession professionals

Applicants on the scholarly monitor ought to:

• Possess a doctorate (a Ph.D., or tutorial equal) on the time of application
• Have a confirmed report of publications of their subject
• Have developed an in depth analysis define for his or her fellowship venture

Note: Former Reagan-Fascell fellows will not be eligible for repeat fellowships.

Application

Once you may have arrange an account, the application course of requires you to submit:

• Applicant info
• Project proposal for the practitioner or the scholarly fellowship monitor
• Letters of advice
• Resume/CV and Biography

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program.