Internships in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Post-Conflict Research Centre

City: Sarajevo

Internship Dates: June 17 - August 18, 2025

Number of Opening(s): 2

About the Organization: Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC) is a leading non-governmental organization in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), internationally recognized for its innovative approaches to peace education, transitional justice, violence prevention, and post-conflict reconciliation. PCRC was founded in 2011 with a vision to contribute to the development of a society where people no longer perceive ethnicity as the source of their differences, but instead see it as the basis for prosperity, redirecting their focus towards economic development, improving the educational system, creating a stable democracy, and cultivating a lasting culture of peace.

PCRC’s staff comprises a diverse group of individuals from both BiH and the international community. Together, the team possesses a broad range of skills, knowledge, and experience, including project and program development, monitoring and evaluation methodologies, strategic peacebuilding and conflict transformation approaches, intimate knowledge of the Western Balkans' sociopolitical landscape, investigative journalism, multimedia production, curation, educational curriculum development, event planning, logistics coordination, and research design and implementation.

Work Description: 

• Balkan Diskurs Articles and PCRC Blog Posts: Interns experienced/interested in writing will be responsible for writing articles for PCRC’s Balkan Diskurs online platform or PCRC's Blog throughout their internship. Balkan Diskurs is a regional multimedia network of writers, bloggers, multimedia artists, and activists who came together in response to the lack of objective, relevant, invigorating, independent regional media. Sometimes topics will be assigned, however, interns are encouraged to propose their own ideas related to their academic and personal backgrounds and interests. We work with our interns to set up interviews and help guide them during the publishing process.
• Annual Summer School Organization: a week-long educational event organized every July at the Srebrenica Memorial Center for youth activists, artists, and students (ages 18 – 30) from the Western Balkan countries and the world. By engaging youth in a series of masterclasses, keynote speeches, and workshops, the school aims to contribute to learning and critical thinking around the subjects of dealing with the past, transitional justice, and prevention of genocides and mass atrocities.
• Social Media Content Creation: Interns will be responsible for contributing to PCRC’s social media. The main focus will be on our intern-run TikTok page, @pcrc_youth. Interns take charge entirely with TikTok, from proposing ideas, filming, editing, and posting. We have found that a solid, youth-led social media assists us in reaching other youth in the area and beyond. This also will include graphic design for Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter posts, as well as contributing to our new annual Intern newsletter.
• Contributing to PCRC’s Research and Evaluation Initiatives: We are engaged in several research projects with regional and international partners that focus on how different mechanisms, contexts, systems, and structures enable or inhibit the culture of peace in BiH, the Western Balkans, and ultimately, in a global context. Our research aims to bolster knowledge of successes and failures in the field of peacebuilding and reconciliation, promote innovation, advance understanding, and inform best practices.

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