[September 2025]
Are you passionate about building peace, resolving conflicts and making a lasting global impact? Whether you’re an NGO, researcher, student or grassroots peacebuilder, securing funding is a crucial step in turning your vision into action. This curated list highlights the latest Peace & Conflict Resolution funding opportunities for 2025.
Socially Engaged Arts Support Grant Program 2025
Deadline: 05-Oct-2025
The Kawamura Cultural Arts Promotion Foundation has launched Japan’s first Socially Engaged Art Support Grant Program. This initiative supports art projects that work closely with communities and aim to create positive social change…[more]
Apply for Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program
Deadline: 30-Sep-25
The Harvard Radcliffe Institute is seeking applications for its Fellowship Program to support fellows in developing new tools and methods, challenge artistic and scholarly conventions and illuminate their past and present…[more]
Call for Entries: World Food Day Poster Contest
Deadline: 07-Nov-2025
The World Food Day Poster Contest invites children and youth to showcase their creativity by illustrating how better food can lead to a better future. Participants are encouraged to design posters that highlight how food can help build a peaceful, sustainable, and food-secure world where everyone has access to a healthy diet…[more]
Apply for I Know Gender 8: Gender Equality and Education Program
Deadline: Ongoing
Applicants are encouraged to apply for the I Know Gender 8: Gender Equality and Education Program…[more]
Open Call for I Know Gender 11: Women, Peace and Security
Deadline: Ongoing
The UN Women is seeking applications for its I Know Gender 11: Women, Peace and Security to develop and or strengthen awareness and understanding of gender equality and women’s empowerment as a first step towards behavioral change and the integration of a gender perspective into everyday work for all UN staff at headquarters, regional and country levels…[more]
Call for Proposals: Humane Studies Fellowship
Deadline: Ongoing
Applications are now open for the Humane Studies Fellowship to support students completing major research projects, presenting their work at top conferences, and publishing their work in major journals…[more]
Entries open for Graduate Sabbatical Grants
Deadline: Ongoing
Are you looking for sabbatical support while you focus on your dissertation? If yes, then this call is for you!…[more]
Starving Artist’s Art Ambassadors Program
Deadline: Ongoing
The Starving Artist Initiative is seeking passionate creative ambassadors focused on art and peace-activism. They want to cultivate a community of art-activists who are leading change in their communities. The aim is to help provide tools and resources for those who would benefit from the expertise, guidance and networks to help amplify their messages…[more]
Young Civil Societies for Democracy Funding Program
Deadline: 15-Oct-2025
The Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ Foundation) has introduced a new funding program, Young Civil Societies for Democracy, under the “Education drives the future” cluster. This program supports international youth education projects led by organizations in Germany, Georgia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and Belarusian exile communities…[more]
CFAs: UNSCAR UN Trust Facility Supporting Cooperation on Arms Regulation
Deadline: 30-Sep-2025
The United Nations Trust Facility Supporting Cooperation on Arms Regulation (UNSCAR) is inviting proposals for its 2025 call, providing a unique opportunity to strengthen global cooperation and action on small arms control…[more]
Applications Open for zivik Funding Programme
Deadline: 01-Oct-2025
The Institute for Foreign Relations (IFA) is inviting applications for the zivik Funding Programme, which supports civil society actors around the world in preventing crises and resolving conflicts. The programme acknowledges the important role that non-governmental organisations (NGOs) play in complementing state efforts by offering new perspectives and addressing urgent priorities…[more]
Call for Applications: Balzan PhD Fellowships
Deadline: 31 December 2027
The Australian National University has announced its Balzan PhD Fellowships to expand the horizons of restorative justice research in all regions of the planet, including Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Oceania, and right across Asia…[more]
CFAs: Humanitarian Demining/Unexploded Ordnance Disposal (UXO) of Civil Areas and Unexploded Ordnance Risk Education
Deadline: 12 November 2025
The European Commission is inviting submissions for the Humanitarian Demining/Unexploded Ordnance Disposal (UXO) of Civil Areas and Unexploded Ordnance Risk Education topic…[more]
Advancing Autonomous Systems and Robotics for High-risk Disaster Response in Conflict-afflicted Crisis Zones
Deadline: 12 November 2025
The European Commission is inviting applications for its Advancing Autonomous Systems and Robotics for High-risk Disaster Response, Strengthening Disaster Resilience in Conflict-afflicted Crisis Zones Initiative…[more]
Submit Applications for Residency Funding
Deadline: Ongoing
The Institute for Humane Studies is seeking applications from graduate students who wish to travel to a university, academic center or organization other than their own to support them financially…[more]
SwedBio Funding Program for CSOs, International Organisations, Institutes & Universities
Deadline: Ongoing
SwedBio welcomes submissions of concept notes to support a limited number of strategic initiatives through their ‘Collaborative Partner Implementation Pathway’…[more]
Grant Project Competition for Financing Feasibility Study Visits in Development Cooperation Projects
Deadline: Ongoing
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia has announced a new grant competition, “Support to financing of pre-assessment visits for development cooperation projects in recipient countries designated by the Republic of Latvia”…[more]
Call for Nominations: Ignite Awards for Human Rights (Philippines)
Deadline: 30-Nov-2025
Amnesty International Philippines has launched the Ignite Awards for Human Rights, the first award-giving body in the country that is solely dedicated to honoring Human Rights Defenders. This initiative aims to recognize individuals and organizations whose work has significantly impacted human rights by changing lives, influencing policies, encouraging activism, and demanding accountability…[more]
RFAs: Global Innovation Fellowships – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (UK)
Deadline: 24-Sep-2025
Applications are now open for the Global Innovation Fellowships – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, offering UK-based early and mid-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences an exciting chance to develop their skills, networks, and careers. This fellowship supports work across creative, cultural, public, private, and policy sectors to tackle challenges requiring innovative approaches and fresh solutions…[more]
Applications open for New Earth Foundation Grant Program in United States
Deadline: 01-Feb-2026
The New Earth Foundation seeks to fund innovative projects that enhance life on our planet and brighten the future, furthering peace. The grants given by NEF support a wide variety of projects in many fields of endeavor, including but not limited to environmental initiatives that are working to help eliminate pollution and to save the planet’s ecosystems, community efforts that create models of social sustainability, educational innovations that prepare youth to become the socially responsible leaders of the future, and strategies that offer economic improvement and opportunities…[more]