Contribute to Scholarships to Train the Next Generation of IHL and Human Rights Specialists

11 February 2021

Support our one-month crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for scholarships and donate now via our crowdfunding platform or via bank transfer to change someone's life and career!

Situations of armed conflict affect the lives of millions of people globally. They remind us that the need to ensure respect for international law during and following armed conflicts and to train the next generation in these fields are as acute as ever.

Every year, more than 500 talented young students apply to our LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (LLM) and to our MAS in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law (MTJ) with a scholarship. Among these, we can only accept around 20 thanks to the generous support of our donors who fund scholarships for these programmes.

This means that we leave out many other promising students because of their limited resources.

‘Studying in Geneva can represent an important financial burden for students and their families. As a result, many talented candidates – from both western and non-western countries – cannot enrol in our programmes’ explains Professor Gloria Gaggioli, Director of the Geneva Academy.

‘It is key for us to ensure a broad diversity in our student body, with students bringing different social, geographical and cultural backgrounds and perspectives in class. Such a mix is not only essential for the programme itself, but also to address contemporary challenges in IHL, human rights and transitional justice’ she adds.

We could do much more with your support: every contribution matters, we know that times are difficult for all.

You have the opportunity to contribute – via our one-month crowdfunding campaign – to scholarships that will cover the tuition fees of students with limited means for the upcoming academic year. We talk about 18,000 Swiss Francs per student that can change someone's life and opportunities.

You can donate either via the crowdfunding platform or via bank transfer.

So with 18,000 Swiss Francs we could help one student, with 36,000 two, with 54,000 three, and so on!

‘I am myself an alumna of the LLM and I still use every day what I have learned during my time at the Geneva Academy. This has changed my life and career. I hope that this will continue to change the life and career of many others, including those with limited means’ says Maud Bonnet, Executive Director at the Geneva Academy.

‘Following graduation, students who received a scholarship often go back to their country or regions affected by conflict or undergoing political transitions, bringing much-needed expertise in complex transitional contexts’ stresses Thomas Unger, former Co-Director of the MTJ.

We count on our alumni, friends, community and on any person who believes in the power of education and in the value of international law to alleviate sufferings and make our world a better and safer place for all.

Every amount given via this campaign will be entirely allocated to our scholarship fund. In case we cannot raise enough money to cover one or several scholarships, the raised funds that cannot be allocated to a scholarship will be in any case used for our students in 2021-2022.

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