Grant Program for Creative and Innovative Peace Projects

Deadline: 30 September 2014
Open to: not-for-profit organizations worldwide
Grant: US$50,000

Description

Peace Projects is a grant program launched by The Journalists and Writers Foundation to support innovative conflict resolution and peace-building projects focused on preventing, managing and resolving violent conflict and promoting post-conflict peace-building. Peace Projects Grant Program awards will support projects that apply a broad range of disciplines, skills and approaches promoting peaceful coexistence through dialogue and reconciliation; fostering pluralism, good governance, freedom of belief; advancing social and economic development and environmental responsibility; upholding respect for human rights, and gender equality and empowerment, among others.

Project topics:
•Inter-communal and inter-state dialogue/cooperation;
•Peace education;
•Pluralism and multiculturalism;
•Youth, conflict and peace-building;
•Early warning and conflict prevention;
•Mediation and negotiation;
•Post-conflict reconciliation;
•Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration;
•Good governance, rule of law and transitional justice;
•Poverty, development and peace-building;
•Gender and peace-building;
•Religion and peace-building;
•Role of media in conflict and peace-building;
•Social-psychological impacts of violent conflict and trauma healing;
•Development and peace-building;
•Social media and peace-building.

Grant

Project Grants of maximum US$50,000 will be given to implement the project. Best Implementation Cash Awards will be provided:

1.US$30,000 – First Place Award;
2.US$20,000 – Second Place Award;
3.US$10,000 – Third Place Award.

Eligibility

Eligible to apply are not-for-profit organizations with at least one member of the team over 18 years old. There are no geographical restrictions on applicants.

Application

Application deadline is 30 September 2014, 11:59 pm (GMT+02:00).

Submit your proposal online HERE.

For further information visit the official website HERE.

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