Deadline: 27-Mar-23

Nominations are now open for the 2023 Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) Prize for Transformative Futures in Peace and Security.

Under the leadership of Ambassador Thomas Greminger, Director of the GCSP, the Prize for Transformative Futures in Peace and Security was initiated by Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan, Head of the Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme, and Ms Anne-Caroline Pissis Martel, Head of the Global Fellowship Initiative and Creative Spark. It seeks to reward groundbreaking concepts that offer exceptional promise in addressing peace and security challenges. The inaugural edition of the prize will be awarded in 2023.

The prize is intended to encourage and recognize excellence in contributing to new approaches to enhancing sustainable global peace and security.

Award Information

• The prize for the application coming in the first position is a fully funded 2-month incubation programme within the GCSP’s Creative Spark in Geneva (worth CHF 15’000) and a certificate of excellence. The two other finalist applications will receive a certificate of recognition. No equivalent or alternative will be provided.

Eligible Fields

• Concepts from a wide variety of fields may be eligible for consideration, including, but not restricted to, transformative technologies, pandemics, biothreats, autonomous weapons, climate change, human rights, cybersecurity, education, or disarmament, for example.

Eligibility Criteria

• The prize is awarded for groundbreaking concepts by any individual, group of individuals, or organisation (from private or public sectors), that offer exceptional potential in addressing peace and security challenges.
• Applications may come from any country, but the potential impact of the concept should go beyond national borders in its reach or thinking and seek to address global peace and security challenges in innovative and creative ways
• Employees, staff, current fellows and current participants of the GCSP, as well as their family members, are not eligible participants. For the categories to be eligible participants, a period of 1 year since the termination of the relationship with the GCSP must be respected.
• Applications must be submitted via the online application form in order to be considered for the prize, and shall include:
  • A project concept abstract of 250 words maximum;
  • A well-developed project concept description which should not exceed 750 words in length;
  • A description of the technical process of the project concept submitted (if applicable);
  • An estimate of the budget required for the project concept;
  • An explanation of how the project concept provides a novel contribution to the field of global peace and security;
  • A description of the short-term and long-term impact of the project concept in the field of global peace and security;
  • Up to five image files (optional).
  • Applications submitted via any other channel will not be considered.
  • Applications must be in English.
  • A panel of independent GCSP experts will evaluate and attribute a score to each valid application received. The 15 best-graded applications will then be passed to a panel of international judges, which will be co-chaired by the Director of the GCSP and the Head of the Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme, for their consideration

Criteria

• The panel of judges will select the winners (first, second and third place), and the selection will be based on the following criteria:
  • Dedication to sustainable global peace and security; Creativity;
  • Originality;
  • Transformative potential;
  • Sustainability;
  • Potential impact on peace and security.

For more information, visit GCSP Prize.