Below is the list of projects funded by USIP under its 2009 Annual Grant Competition. The project strategies applied in these interventions will give an idea as to what kind of actual interest does USIP take in funding projects. There are also budgetary amounts sanctioned under each project that can also help 2010 Annual Grant applicants to estimate their project expenses.
“HIRUT ABEBE-JIRI, Ethiopian Red Terror Documentation and Research Center, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: A grant to inventory, preserve, and make publicly available hundreds of thousands of documents related to the “Red Terror” of the late 1970s in Ethiopia. Through the documents and an educational toolkit, the project will give Ethiopians access to, and a chance to reconcile with, a critical period in their country’s past. (USIP-087-09F) $80,855
SUSAN ALLEN-NAN, George Mason University, Arlington, VA: A grant to support the expansion of a successful Georgian-South Ossetian Track II diplomatic initiative engaging influential Georgians and South Ossetians. The unofficial dialogues will generate new options for concrete confidence building initiatives, continue building relationships amongst influential Georgians and South Ossetians, and disseminate among policy makers and the general public the resulting policy recommendations and information about improved relationships between the two communities. (USIP-057-09F) $129,000.
AMJAD ATALLAH, Public International Law & Policy Group, Arlington, VA: A grant to support a study to identify best practices in the prevention and resolution of water-based conflicts. Based on research, a series of simulations, and expert roundtable discussions, the initiative will develop and enhance legal and political mechanisms for preventing and resolving water-based conflicts by identifying gaps in these mechanisms and suggesting potential strategies to improve them. (USIP-069-09F) $51,909
SEVERINE AUTESSERRE, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY: A grant to assess how an emerging international culture of peacekeeping affects the efficacy of conflict resolution programs in the context of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The project will explore how Western and non-Western approaches to peacekeeping differ, and how both interact with local contexts. It will then assess the conditions under which peacebuilding interventions are more or less likely to succeed. (USIP-004-09F) $94,000…”
The complete list of projects is available at this link.
2010 USIP Annual Grant Competition
