Deadline: 6 March 2020
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) is seeking applications for its Peace and Security Grant Programme to support a transition towards:
- The use of ‘soft’, rather than ‘hard’ power as a first line of response to conflict within their society and around the world
- The de-legitimisation of violence as a tool for responding to conflict, securing interests or projecting power
- A culture of human rights and non-violent problem-solving, promoted at all levels of society.
Funding priorities
- Challenging militarism
- They are interested in funding work which:
- Highlights and holds the UK government to account for the human, economic, environmental and security costs of militarised responses to conflict
- Scrutinises and challenges the use of new technology for warfare
- Exposes and challenges the economic drivers of war, especially the arms trade
- Highlights and challenges the culture and values of militarism in the UK
- Promotes conscientious objection to military service as a globally recognised and applied human right.
- They are interested in funding work which:
- Scrutiny of counter-terrorism measures in the context of human rights and peacebuilding
- They are interested in funding work which:
- Promotes greater transparency and accountability in relation to government counter-terrorism policy
- Challenges state abuses of power in relation to counter-terrorism
- Advocates policy responses to the use of terror tactics which address their underlying causes
- Challenges the use of counter-terrorism policies which foment conflict or undermine opportunities to build peace.
- They are interested in funding work which:
- Building support for alternative approaches to defence and security
- They are interested in funding work which:
- Articulates and builds support for models of defence and security which address the root causes of conflict and injustice, and which are based on non-violence, dialogue and mediation, human rights and environmental sustainability
- Addresses the risks of nuclear weapons and articulates options for non-nuclear security
- Offers ideas and action on the re-shaping of violent masculinities which underpin the military system
- Promotes the understanding and effective practice of non-violence in social change.
- They are interested in funding work which:
Eligibility Criteria
- JRCT is interested in funding work which:
- Is about removing problems through radical solutions, and not simply about making problems easier to live with
- Has a clear sense of objectives, and of how to achieve them
- Is innovative and imaginative
- And where the grant has a good chance of making a difference.
- Within its areas of interest, the Trust makes grants to a range of organisations and to individuals.
- If applicants are based outside the UK and applicants are registered as a charitable organistion in their local jurisdiction, applicants may apply for general support if all of their work fits within their published programmes, and the following criteria are also met:
- Applicants organisation is governed by an unpaid board
- Applicants organisation is not for profit
- Applicants organisation’s formal purposes fall within the list of charitable purposes recognised within English law.
For more information, visit https://www.jrct.org.uk/peace-and-security