{"id":336,"date":"2021-06-30T10:33:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/?p=336"},"modified":"2021-08-19T08:55:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:55:25","slug":"learning-to-be-an-advocate-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/2021\/06\/30\/learning-to-be-an-advocate-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to be an Advocate for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer, I am interning in the Outreach Department of Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP), a nonprofit based in Washington, DC. CMEP\u2019s mission is to educate American Christians on the current human rights issues in the Middle East (particularly in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories), elevate diverse Middle East voices, and advocate for changing U.S. policies concerning the Middle East to work toward holistic peacebuilding. Through my internship, I hope to learn more about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and how to understand various perspectives while advocating for the human rights of all involved. I am inspired to grow in becoming an active peacemaker and compassionate advocate.<\/p>\n

I am a Philosophy and Theology double major with a Peace and Justice concentration, currently plan to attend law school, and my time at CMEP will certainly help me in my future career path as a lawyer. Advocating for those in need is something I hope to do as a lawyer. More specifically, this internship provides an opportunity for me to explore whether I would ever want to work for a non-profit or even pursue a specific career in peacebuilding advocacy in the Middle East. On a practical level, I am gaining professional communication skills through my outreach work as well as organizational and planning skills through various cataloguing tasks. I\u2019m incredibly thankful for this amazing opportunity to be working in DC for CMEP!<\/p>\n

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\"Where
Where I work: United Methodist Building, Washington DC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"View
View from outside the office: The US Supreme Court, Washington DC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"My
My desk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Some
Some pictures in the office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Hanging
Hanging in the office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"My
My train commute: Union Station, Washington DC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kathleen Wallace ’23
\nPhilosophy, Theology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This summer, I am interning in the Outreach Department of Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP), a nonprofit based in Washington, DC. CMEP\u2019s mission is to educate American Christians on the current human rights issues in the Middle East (particularly in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories), elevate diverse Middle East voices, and advocate for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,10,11,9,12,4,5,8],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blog","tag-churches-for-middle-east-peace-cmep","tag-cmep","tag-internship","tag-peace","tag-royal-experience","tag-the-university-of-scranton","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}