Peacebuilding and Mediation grants, Carnegie Foundation, New York, NY, USA. Deadline: concept notes due 8 November 2026.
Armed conflict is now at its highest recorded level since the Second World War, and the international mechanisms built to prevent, manage, and respond to it have weakened. The Andrew Carnegie Foundation’s International Program responds to this challenge through complementary lines of work: preventing violence before it escalates, mitigating or resolving ongoing warfare, ensuring accountability for violations that have already occurred, and building the foundations for lasting peace once conflict subsides.
Inspired by Andrew Carnegie’s founding vision, the International Program is guided by a definition of peace that extends beyond the absence of armed conflict and violence to the active creation of conditions that sustain nonviolent growth and change. The International Program seeks to support organizations that, through peacebuilding and mediation work, mitigate or prevent armed conflict and political violence, build the foundations for lasting peace, and shape policy and practice. They are looking for:
- Credible diplomatic, dialogue, and mediation initiatives, from formal engagement to grassroots efforts.
- Innovative and nonconventional interventions that existing peacebuilding and mediation models have not yet tested.
- Research that is action-oriented and supports peacebuilding, with a clear connection to policymakers and practitioners.
- A clear theory of change for shifting conditions that lead to violence.
- Organizations that have strong relationships with local and regional actors, and whose access and expertise position them to shape the processes that lead to durable peace.
- Work in which the U.S. is a central party to peacebuilding and mediation efforts. (Note: this is a preference but not a requirement.)
- All regions, prioritizing violent conflicts where conditions create a genuine window of opportunity.
