Summer Intern Program

Summer Internship Opportunities – Peace Innovation Lab

The Peace Innovation Lab will be offering unpaid summer internship opportunities at three different locations:

  • Stanford University
  • CSU East Bay
  • City of Manor, Texas

All three sites will be working on different peace antecedents ranging from good governance (City of Manor) to interpersonal communications and conflict resolution (CSU East Bay).

Interested? Please send your CV/Resume/LinkedIn profile to quihuis@stanford.edu

Summer Internship Opportunities – Peace Innovation Lab & Conference @ Stanford University

Peace Innovation Website
  • Design website
  • Maintain and update website with articles, original blog postings and video curated from our research
  • Establish analytics and metrics for website (Google Analytics, etc.)
  • Assist lab in establishing thought leadership in the area of peace innovation
Peace Innovation Research
  • Research, identify and curate innovative, leading edge efforts around the globe related to peace and antecedents to peace
  • Write original blog postings on topics related to peace innovation
  • Assist lab in establishing thought leadership in the area of peace innovation
Peace Innovation Conference Coordinator(s)
  • Work with lab director to design conference themes and sessions
  • Identify, invite and coordinate speakers
  • Put together social media strategy (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to publicize event
  • Identify desired outcomes and design conference and interactions toward those outcomes
Persuasive Video Intern
  • Curate persuasive videos across the web that are related to peace and/or antecedents to peace
  • Create persuasive videos related to peace and/or antecedents to peace
  • Analyze what makes these videos persuasive and what outcomes, if any, can be attributed to these videos
Social Media Strategist
  • Work with director to establish social media strategy for PI Lab and PI Conference
  • Set up analytics and metrics to track impact through Facebook, Twitter and other appropriate social media platforms
  • Assist lab in establishing thought leadership in the area of peace innovation
Analytics
  • Establish an analytics framework for measuring behaviors related to peace
  • Develop appropriate tools (API, other interfaces) to compile data
Social Apps
  • Develop Facebook and other social platform apps that can nudge or encourage pro-social behavior in actionable, measureable ways

Summer Internship Opportunities – Peace Innovation Lab @Manor Labs, Manor, TX

City as a Platform

Manor Labs 2.0
  • Inspired by social innovation game platforms such as Urgent Evoke, we’re looking to create an engaging civic game that teaches and inspires Manor citizens to become change agents in their community.
Facebook App Development
  • Work with Persuasive Tech Lab and Manor Labs to create Facebook apps for civic engagement
Wiki Development
  • Work with Persuasive Tech Lab and Manor Labs to create a domain-specific wiki around civic policy/research
Nike+ App
  • Develop a Nike+ app mashup that couples health and civic participation
Semantics
  • Help with the City of Manor’s current Semantic Web research & development.

Summer Internship Opportunities – Peace Innovation Lab @ CSU East Bay

Facebook App Development
  • Create Facebook applications for conflict resolution interventions, track and review impact.
Mobile Moodle Integration and Homeless Youth Course Offerings
  • Creating Moodle courses using state educational standards to provide homeless youth with mobile educational opportunities. Clearly establish ROI and ROE with sample.
peace.csueastbay.edu launch
  • Engage students, professors and staff in peace.csueastbay.edu efforts. Collect and curate current efforts around campus. Work with established social media at EB to expand awareness of peace.csueastbay.edu.
Develop and track measures of social capital development specifically for the university enviroment
  • Measure current social capital using quantitative measures, establish impact of lab efforts over life cycle of effort.

Skills

Software Adobe

Photoshop

Illustrator

Mac

Keynote

iMovie

Microsoft

PowerPoint

Excel

Word

WordPress

Themes

Plug-ins

Social Media

Facebook Fan Page

Twitter

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