Projects for Peace Alumni Award

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Internal Deadline: Wednesday, January 24th, 2024 at 12 PM noon pacific time

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Description

The Projects for Peace Alumni Award seeks to recognize individuals who have demonstrated innovation and commitment in building peace and transforming conflict throughout their career. The award is intended to celebrate and enhance the achievements of past Projects for Peace grantees.

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 more than 2000 projects. Reed College has been a partner with Projects for Peace since 2008 and has awarded grants nearly every year.

Each year, the Projects for Peace Alumni Award awards up to $50,000 to support the continuing peacebuilding efforts of a Projects for Peace grantee. The Award is made possible through the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation at Middlebury.

REED'S PROJECTS FOR PEACE ALUMNI

Award Benefits

Winners receive up to $50,000.
Winners will attend a multiday conflict transformation convening 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.

Eligibility

Applicants must have implemented a Project for Peace any time in the history of the program. The applicant’s name must appear on the approved final report submitted at the conclusion of their Projects for Peace grant.
Applicants must be nominated by the educational institution (Reed College) which supported their Project for Peace. No direct-apply or “at-large” applications will be accepted.

Reed College may nominate one applicant per year.

Selection Criteria

Projects for Peace seeks individuals who have demonstrated the potential to make sustained contributions to their field and who have charted a clear path forward. Nominees may be from any range of disciplines and approaches to peacebuilding. The selection criteria includes:

Evidence of enduring commitment to the pursuit of peacebuilding. 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.
Commitment to community engagement as well as public sharing of actions and impact.
Demonstration of how conflict transformation does integrate, or could integrate, with their peacebuilding approach.
Evidence of productive engagements with conflicts that may underlie targeted issues. Conflict transformation moves from destructive “us versus them” dynamics to patterns of constructive engagement, understanding and problem-solving.
Evidence of critical reflection on progress to date, and consideration of how their work could be expanded and/or revised.

Application Procedure

Eligible applicants can download a PDF of the application instructions. Follow all directions there and submit all materials via email to clbrfellowships@reed.edu by the internal application deadline.

Exception for Letters of Reference

The two internal letters of reference should be sent directly from the recommenders to clbrfellowships@reed.edu by the internal application deadline. Letter writers will have an opportunity to revise their letters prior to the nomination deadline on February 12th, so the internal letters do not need to be the final letters of recommendation. The internal letters will be reviewed by Reed's Projects for Peace campus liaison (Nate Martin), and by any campus selection committee members appointed by the liaison.

Next Steps

Any applications will be reviewed following submission, and it's possible that applicants will be asked to interview over Zoom in the week after the deadline, potentially on short notice. Decisions will be communicated via email as soon as possible, as the nominee's final materials will need to be submitted by Reed staff to Projects for Peace by February 12th.

Questions?

Please contact CLBR Fellowships.