A Voice For the Voiceless
The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change.
We are currently recruiting graduate students to volunteer as Peace Fellows with partners.
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Blogs
Peace Fellows are expected to post blogs to the AP website, at least weekly. This has been a feature of the program since it started in 2003. Blogs play a critical role in helping AP publicize the work of partner organizations. They raise issues, profile marginalized communities, describe partner campaigns, and provide AP with the raw material for news bulletins. Many blogs have provoked an intense online debate.
All Fellows receiving training in blogging at AP before they are deployed. While blogs must be culturally sensitive and reflect the position of AP’s partner organizations, they also serve as a highly personal expression of the Fellow’s work. This helps to connect Fellows to their own network of friends and family while they are abroad, and helps them to organize events on their return. Blogging has also proved to be highly therapeutic for Fellows who feel isolated and alone.
These pages contain a complete archive of past blogs, organized by year.
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Zach Scott (Georgetown, 2007) blogged from the caravan where he lived for ten weeks while volunteering with the Travellers at Dale Farm in southeast England. The Travellers are unpopular with the local population and Zach’s blogs provided them with a unique platform. As a result, Zach’s blogs provoked a storm of critical comments, and negative coverage in the local media.
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