Deadline: 15 September 2015
Peace Direct is accepting applications for its third Tomorrow’s Peacebuilders Awards to showcase the best locally led peacebuilding organisations across the world.
The participants will have to show their strategy of making communities more peaceful, or breaking cycles of violence. Special prizes will also be given for technology and peacebuilding and photography and peace.
The Tomorrow’s Peacebuilders awards were launched in 2013 by Peace Direct. They are the only awards of their kind in the world.
Prize and Benefits
The three winning organizations will receive:
- $10,000 prize funding for peacebuilding activities.
- Invitation to attend a winners’ event in London.
- Promotion of their work online, including on the Insight on Conflict and Peace Direct websites and newsletters.
- Alongside the main prize and categories, the organisation that best makes use of technology in their work will receive a scholarship to attend the ‘Build Peace 2016’ conference in Zurich, Switzerland, and become a Build Peace Fellow, receiving additional support for their peacebuilding work.
Award Categories
- Women-led peacebuilding
- Youth peacebuilding
- Environmental peacebuilding
- Inter-religious peacebuilding
- Arts and peacebuilding
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant can be from any country.
- The applicant must:
- Undertake peacebuilding work- the organization is either a peacebuilding organisation or has peacebuilding as a substantial element of its work.
- Be locally based- the organization must be based in the country or communities where the work will be done.
- Be an independent organisation, not an in-country or satellite organisation of an international NGO.
- Be working, or planning to work, in at least one of the following thematic areas: women-led peacebuilding; youth peacebuilding; environmental peacebuilding; inter-religious peacebuilding; arts and peacebuilding; or technology and peacebuilding.
How to Apply
Applicants can download the application form through the website. Completed applications can be sent via email.
For more information, please visit The Tomorrow’s Peacebuilders Awards.
