Middlebury College School in France Summer 2026 Conflict Transformation Intern
Conflict Transformation Intern
Middlebury School in France
Summer (June - July) 2026
Please note: Your résumé MUST be approved by a CCI Peer Career Advisor in order to apply in Handshake. (If your résumé was approved last year and updated with new experiences, it remains valid.)
The School in France (SiF) is looking to welcome a summer intern to their Center in Paris (the Centre Madeleine) to support and expand Conflict Transformation (CT) programming. This position is in person; however, one or two out of the eight weeks of the internship can be done remotely.
The SiF currently has two main areas of CT programming: CT courses and CT support resources (Canvas site). The 2026 CT summer intern will be charged with developing a third: a CT orientation module.
CT courses are taught by Middlebury SiF professors and offered exclusively to SiF students. These courses teach a specific subject through the lens of CT; two have been offered every spring semester since the 2022-23 academic year:
- The history of social unrest in France;
- The political history of the European Union.
These courses involve field trips and guest speakers and require intentional self-reflection. A third course, “Revisiting Françafrique: Conflict, culture, and migrations” is in development. The summer 2026 intern will assist with course material development that will hopefully be approved for the fall 2026 semester.
Other projects currently in development that will benefit from the summer intern’s expertise and guidance include:
- Exploring the design of 3 possible future CT Courses:
- Memory, Justice and Peace in Postwar Europe;
- Franco-Algerian War and the impact of colonial history and violence on bilateral relations;
- Conflict in French suburbs.
- Designing a conference with the founders of a French NGO, Les Puits du desert (subject: resource scarcity and impacts on social stability in Niger).
- Expanding the SiF CT Canvas site with culturally and linguistically diverse pedagogical materials for graduate student CT fellows conducting CT-related research in the following domains: literature, civilization, pedagogy, development studies, cultural heritage, migration studies.
- Building a CT orientation model for incoming undergraduate study abroad students that incorporates:
- Conflicts students may encounter abroad;
- Responses to conflict that lead to productive and unproductive engagement;
- Ways conflict can be opportunities for intercultural learning, language acquisition and resilience building.
Responsibilities include:
- Collaborate with SiF professors and administrators to (re)write and submit course proposals and budgets for upcoming CT courses;
- Conduct research on appropriate CT literature, field trip opportunities, and possible guest speakers for CT courses;
- Design a CT module for orientation;
- Assist in planning a CT conference with a NGO;
- Update and develop content for CT Canvas site;
- Communicate with VT-based International Programs and Off Campus Study (IPOCS) and SiF staff to help produce deliverables for the Bi-Annual Davis Collaborative donor report;
- Act as a general resource to all SiF staff members and offer a student perspective where needed.
Qualifications include:
- Academic experience in CT required.
- Advanced French language skills preferred. Intermediate French reading, writing, and listening required and some translation of documents will be necessary.
- Excellent written communication skills.
- Collaboration skills and eager self-direction is sought after.
- The student does not have to be a former study abroad student at SiF but should be interested in educational and cultural exchange.
The student intern will have to sign an internship agreement or a “convention de stage” ; the latter is a tripartite document required by the French government, signed by the student intern, the home institution (Middlebury College and the Center for Careers and Internships) and the SiF as host institution, that details the duration of the internship, the tasks assigned to the student intern, etc.
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- Funding: Interns receive a $5,000 CCI award to support their summer experience.
- Requirements: Your résumé must be CCI-approved to apply. Selected interns must participate in all cohort meetings and complete pre-internship forms, a post-internship evaluation, and a donor thank-you letter.
- Eligibility: Open to returning Middlebury students. Seniors graduating in May 2026, students not enrolled in Spring or Fall 2026, and those planning to transfer are not eligible.
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For further information, please contact Amy Tondu, Associate Director of the Middlebury School in France, at atondu@middlebury.edu .