SMGP APPLICATION

The Student Media Grant Program grants funds to students or recent graduates to conduct development or extension programs in the field and chronicle issues affecting conflict areas.

Student Media Grant Program Application Information

STUDENT MEDIA GRANT PROGRAM

Announcement:

The 2022-2023 Application Period is Closed

The Program on Conflict and Development is reviewing applications for SMGP projects that will take place in 2023. We hope to announce our new grantees by the end of January 2023. Good luck to all of the students that submitted their proposals!
No new proposals will be accepted.
A new application period will open around on Sept 15th, 2023!
This grant is funded by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation Chair on Conflict and Development at Texas A&M University.

Past Projects

Past winners have traveled to and produced photography highlighting issues in many conflict-affected regions.

2019 Projects

Ricardo Velasco – Memory and Sustainability for Peace and Reconciliation in Transitional Colombia
Jorge Choy – Where dreams and nightmares meet: Central American, African, and Asian migrants and asylum seekers in Mexico’s Southern Border
Alexis Aubin – Colombia: A Wounded Land
Nathalia Hernandez – Curanderas (Healers): Mayan Women’s Voices and Bodies in Resistance
Daoud Qamar – Living in Neglect: The People of the Hill

2018 Projects

Guatemala: Photo with Coffee – Guatemalan Children Telling their Stories
Brazil: Living with Fear – The War Inside Brazil
Ghana: Illegal Artisan Gold Mining in Ghana: Debbie Onuoha is studying her Masters of Art in Documentary Film Directing. She is currently completing her photojournalism project in Ghana. Updates will be available early 2019.

2017 Projects

2016 Projects

2015 Projects

2014 Projects

2013 Projects

India: Poverty and Food Insecurity
Mali: Household Food Insecurity

ABOUT US

The Program on Conflict and Development seeks to improve the effectiveness of development programs and policies for conflict-affected and fragile countries through multidisciplinary research and education.

The Program's work aims to reduce armed conflict, sustain families and communities during conflict, and assist states to rapidly recover from conflict.

This website is supported and maintained by the Conflict and Development Foundation - an independent 501(c)3 organization that is not part of the Texas A&M University System.

COUNTRIES

DEVELOPMENT

ConDev’s research focuses largely on mitigating conflict related to four program areas, which were hand-picked based on their potential to combat key drivers of international conflict:

This website is made possible by the support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development. The contents are the sole responsibility of ConDev, and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.

CONTACT US

Program on Conflict and Development
Department of Agricultural Economics
Texas A&M University

600 John Kimbrough Blvd.
411 Agriculture & Life Sciences Bldg.
2124 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-2124

+1 (979) 458-9399
condevprogram@condev.org