• http://www.usip.org/grants/unsolicited.html
• Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility; 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. When applicants are employed by an eligible institution, such as a college or university, USIP prefers that grants be made to the institution rather than to the individual..
• Award: $40,000 to $75,000
• Deadline: 10/1/2008
• Details: The Unsolicited Grant Initiative funds projects focused on preventing, managing, and resolving violent conflict and promoting post-conflict peacebuilding outside the borders of the U.S. Awards are offered across a broad range of relevant disciplines, skills, and approaches. USIP welcomes proposals of an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary nature.

  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.
  

NB: USIP invites proposals for projects on the causes and impacts of war and processes of peacemaking that include outputs such as:

* Applied and scholarly research;
* Curricula, texts and educator training related to secondary through post-graduate study;
* Training, symposia, and continuing education programs for practitioners, policymakers, policy implementers, and the public;
* Public information efforts, including development of video and film projects;
* Expanded library resources, the development of bibliographic databases and indexes, and the expansion of cooperative efforts in resource sharing;
* "Track II" dialogues and related programs.