Description Max. Grant amount: USD 50.000
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.
Eligibility
Eligible to apply are all not-for-profit organizations with at least one member of the team over 18 years old. There are no geographical restrictions on applicants.
Budget
Maximum ammount awarded under this Call for Porposals is: USD 50.000.
Best Implementation Cash Awards will be provided as follows:
- First Place Award ammount: USD 30.000;
- Second Place Award ammount: USD 20.000;
- Third Place Award ammount: USD 10.000.
Deadline: 30 September 2014.
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