Applications are open for the Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship for the spring 2026 semester. The Scoville Fellowship is a highly competitive national fellowship program that provides recent college and graduate school alumni with the funding and opportunity to work for six to nine months with one of more than two dozen participating institutions in Washington, DC, including leading think tanks and advocacy groups that focus on nuclear weapons risk reduction and other international security issues. Since its inception in 1987 our program has brought 232 people to work in Washington.
We have scheduled two information sessions for prospective applicants to learn more about the fellowship. Registration is not required to join the calls. The Zoom links to the information sessions are posted on our website at https://scoville.org/overview/information-sessions/.
Scoville Fellows are supervised by senior-level staff members at their host institutions and may work on a range of issues, including nuclear and conventional arms control and nonproliferation; atrocity prevention, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding; diplomacy; emerging technology threats; environmental security; and global health security. They contribute to their host organizations' goals through research, public education, advocacy, and by writing articles, blog posts, fact sheets, letters to the editor, op-eds, and/or reports. In addition, fellows often help organize talks and conferences and attend coalition meetings, policy briefings, and congressional hearings. Benefits of this fellowship include salary, basic health insurance compensation, mentoring, moving costs to DC, meetings with policy experts, a modest stipend for professional development purposes, and an entrée into an increasingly influential network of alumni working for domestic and international NGOs, the federal government, academia, and media.
Upcoming Application Deadlines:
Spring 2026 Fellowship: October 20, 2025 (begin between January 15 and April 1, 2026)
Fall 2026 Fellowship: January 9, 2026 (begin between July 15 and October 1, 2026)
For more information, contact: Windila Balbone at 202-380-7769