USIP Annual Grant Programme
Overview
Awards support activities that apply across a broad range of relevant disciplines, skills, and approaches. USIP welcomes proposals of an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary nature.
Most USIP grants are one to two years in duration. Most awards fall in the range of $50,000 to $120,000.
Topic areas of interest to USIP include, but are not limited to:
- Conflict analysis and prevention;
- Mediation and conflict resolution;
- Postconflict peace and stability operations;
- Religion and peacemaking;
- Rule of law and transitional justice;
- International organizations and collective security;
- Economies and conflict;
- Social, psychological, and physical impacts of war and conflict;
- Media and conflict.
USIP may provide grant support to nonprofit organizations and individuals-both U.S. and foreign-including the following: institutions of post-secondary, community, and secondary education; public and private education, training or research institutions, and libraries.
Individuals seeking funding must identify a nonprofit organization (i.e., educational institution, research institution, civil society organization, or NGO) that will receive, administer, and report on the use of grant funds on behalf of the applicant.
Only one application per competition may be submitted by the same project director.
Unsuccessful applicants of previous Grant Program competitions may not submit the same application unless it has been substantially revised.
- In March 2010, the USIP Board of Directors approved 21 annual grant competition awards from the October 2009 competition.
- USIP normally receives between 200 and 300 proposals annually and gives awards on average to 15 percent of the applicant pool.
- In March 2009, the USIP Board of Directors approved 24 annual grant competition awards from the October 2008 competition.
- USIP normally receives between 200 and 300 proposals annually and gives awards on average to 15 percent of the applicant pool.
Example Grants
True Cost of the Troubles: This grant funded report featured survivors of violence in Northern Ireland.
2009
JOHN SLOBODA, Oxford Research Group, London, United Kingdom: A grant to define and test a generalizable framework for enumerating the casualties of armed conflict. Drawing on a newly-created international network of casualty recording practitioners, the initiative will produce a report that evaluates findings, raise the quality of data on the casualties of armed conflict, and professionalize the conduct of casualty recording. (USIP-009-09F) $100,161
CHANDRA LEKHA SRIRAM, University of East London, London, United Kingdom): A grant to support a study of transitional justice as an element of peacebuilding in countries emerging from conflict. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, the initiative will map and assess existing practices that integrate peacebuilding and transitional justice programs, examine retributive justice and restorative measures, and identify processes that return former combatants to communities and promote reconciliation. (USIP-002-09F) $95,447