A call for nominations for the 2013 Oak Human Rights Fellowship, sponsored by the Oak Institute for the Study of InternationalHuman Rights at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. The fellowship is a one-semester appointment as a scholar-in-residence. It is designed to provide human rights
practitioners doing "on-the-ground" work at some level of personal risk a respite from
front-line duties to enable them to reflect, write, and communicate their work to our
campus community. We are writing to ask your help in identifying the Oak fellow for the fall of 2013.
Each year, we target our search for a human rights activist either regionally or functionally. The focus of this year's search is on the protection of the human rights of interned or displaced persons. We are particularly looking for
those human rights practitioners involved in the protection of the international legal rights and basic needs of prisoners of war, civilians detained during occupation or as the result of political violence or states of emergency, and
refugees and internally displaced persons fleeing from civil violence, political repression or
economic dislocation.
The appointment is for the fall semester of 2013 (mid-August through mid-December). Responsibilities include participation in a lecture series or symposium in the fellow's
area of expertise and regular interaction with Colby students through a one-credit non-graded discussion class. The College provides a stipend of $32,500, plus transportation, housing, health care coverage, and other fringe benefits. We encourage the fellow to bring family with limited financial support for their travel as well.
In conducting our annual search, we rely heavily on nominations from NGOs, journalists, human rights lawyers, and academics-you are most likely to know of the work of on-the-ground
professionals.