DEADLINE:
Applications due: Monday, January 16th, 2023 at 11:59pm ET via CARAT
BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
The Projects for Peace Alumni Award seeks to recognize individuals who demonstrate innovation and persistence in building peace and transforming conflict. Projects for Peace is a global program that partners with educational institutions to identify and support young peacebuilders and changemakers. The program encourages young adults to develop innovative, community-centered, and scalable responses to the world’s most pressing issues. Along the way, these student leaders increase their knowledge, improve skills, and begin to see themselves as agents of change. Since 2007, Projects for Peace has worked with approximately 115 colleges and universities to support almost 2000 projects.
Each year, the Projects for Peace Alumni Award will award up to $50,000 to support the continuing peacebuilding efforts of past Projects for Peace grantees. The Award is made possible through the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation at Middlebury.
Eligible students are:
Applicants must be current Harvard College students or alumni who have already completed a Project for Peace.
Benefits:
- Winners receive up to $50,000.
- Winners will attend a multiday Conflict Transformation retreat at Middlebury College, with an opportunity to discuss their work with the Conflict Transformation community at Middlebury.
- The Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation at Middlebury expects to fund at least one award each year through 2028.
Selection criteria:
- Evidence of persistence in pursuing peacebuilding activities. Applicants need not be currently working on the same issues, or using the same approaches, as their original Project for Peace.
- Evidence of innovation and creativity in approaches to peacebuilding and conflict transformation.
- Demonstration of how conflict transformation integrates, or could integrate, with their peacebuilding approach.
- Evidence of productive engagement with the conflicts that may underlie targeted issues. For example, transforming binary conflicts to patterns of understanding and problem-solving.
- Commitment to community-engagement as well as public sharing of actions and impact.
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Evidence of critical reflection on progress to date, and consideration of how their work could be expanded and/or revised.
- Applications due: Monday, January 16th, 2023 at 11:59pm ET via CARAT
- Selection Committee meeting: Harvard nominates one individual to Projects for Peace by February 13, 2023. Projects for Peace notifies URAF of preliminary decisions by March 2023.