Competitive Research Grants for Local Faculty
The Program on Conflict and Development (Program on Conflict and Development) is working to build local research capacity by offering competitive grants to scholars. As part of USAID’s Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN), Program on Conflict and Development helps bring the work of these local scholars to decision-makers. For more information about these grants, please contact our Director, Dr. Edwin Price, or our Latin America Lead, Johanna Roman.
Anthony Laos Memorial Middle East Research Fund
Permanently endowed program for research on Middle Eastern issues of conflict and development with emphasis on Iraq, agriculture and rural development.
Democratic Republic of the Congo Peace Center Grants: Raising the Voices of Congolese Scholars
In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Program on Conflict and Development provided funding to faculty at the Université Catholique du Graben in Butembo; these Howard G. Buffett Foundation-supported awards strengthen the collaboration between academic and government institutions through the design, implementation and evaluation of scalable solutions that address obstacles to peaceful development.
Latin America Grants
In partnership with the Conflict and Development Foundation, Program on Conflict and Development has offered grants to organizations in selected Latin American countries to conduct research and development programs in target countries. Programs have been completed in El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Trinidad & Tobago.
Public Health Grants
Program on Conflict and Development has administered a competitive grants program at Texas A&M University’s Health Science Center School of Public Health, which supported the development of solutions to community health challenges in conflict-affected areas.
Stabilization Lab
Program on Conflict and Development is currently pursuing funding to establish a Stabilization Lab (Stab Lab) at Texas A&M University. The StabLab will examine which governmental interventions yield the greatest return on investment, and produce dividends of peace, security, and prosperity.
Transformative Solutions Grants
Eleven grants of up to $25,000 of USAID/HESN funds were awarded through international competition to scholars who hypothesized and tested innovations to overcome the negative impacts of conflict that preclude broad-based development.
Environmental Management in the Oil Sector Grants
Program on Conflict and Development partnered with the USAID-funded Environmental Management in the Oil Sector (USAID/EMOS) program to deliver “Emco” awards, which engaged Ugandan researchers in the development of Transformative Solutions to problems caused by the exploration, extraction, processing, marketing and utilization of Uganda’s mineral resources.
