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Grant Application Guidelines

Grant proposals should be submitted by email, as a single (1) pdf file.

Grant proposals should contain the following elements:

A. Cover Sheet (1 page)

B. Proposal (not to exceed 5 pages)

C. Budget (1 page)

D. Curriculum vita(e) (not to exceed 1 page per PI)

A. COVER SHEET

All grant proposals must be accompanied by a completed Proposal Cover Sheet Form. See

separate form.

B. PROPOSAL

Formatting

The proposal should be

・ Double spaced

・ up to 5 pages long

・ 12 pt. font

・ 1” margins.

Content

The content of the grant proposal should be divided into sections that answer the following

questions.

1. What is the question or challenge and why is it important? The proposal should start with

a brief discussion of the questions or challenges that the proposer expects to address, with

regard to both science and diplomacy. It should go on to discuss why the question matters (e.g.

fill gaps in the literature/knowledge/data, nations are in conflict etc.) and how they are related to

the goals of the funder.

2. What is the state of research/effort on this question? The proposal should contain a

summary of the existing literature or activity on the questions/challenges being addressed. This

summary should include citations to the most important papers in the literature or projects.

3. Why is the proposer qualified to address the question/challenge for which funds are

sought? The proposer’s education, teaching, previous research accomplishments, experience

in international relations, etc., related to the proposed research should be discussed briefly.

4. What is the method or approach? The proposal should contain a discussion

of the theoretical framework, data sources, sampling methods, and empirical analyses or other

activities and methods (theory or model of social change) that bear on the project.

5. What will be the outputs from the research project? The proposal should include a

discussion of creation of data sets, anticipated papers, conferences, briefings, training of

students and postdocs, new relationships, etc., that the research or project is expected to yield.

6. What is the justification for the amount of money requested? The proposer should

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