Pankaj Award to End Conflict 2026 (Fully-funded to One Young World Summit) – YOA

Deadline: June 15, 2026

Applications are open for the Pankaj Award to End Conflict 2026. The world is watching in concern as a brand new period of battle spreads, multiplies, and deepens, pushed by identification, ignorance, and inequality. Established establishments and actors are perpetuating its causes quite than fixing them. Meanwhile, the results are devastating for most of the most susceptible communities all over the world.

This Award has been launched to recognise the younger leaders who’re tackling battle at its roots and creating unity inside and between communities torn aside by divisions.

Regent Global and One Young World will establish ten younger leaders as finalists for the award, based mostly on their demonstrated influence:

• Providing options to finish or stop battle at a neighborhood, nationwide, or regional degree
• Increasing consciousness and understanding between communities by way of dialogue and schooling
• Preventing the outbreak and escalation of violence inside and between communities
• Empowering and defending the rights of marginalised and oppressed teams
• Implementing sustainable peacebuilding measures to stop the re-emergence of battle

Benefits

All finallists will obtain:

• Funding from $10,000 – $100,000 to put money into their work to finish battle
• A completely-funded place to attend the One Young World Summit Cape Town, South Africa from 3 – 6 November 2026.
  • Travel to and from Cape Town (flights in financial system).
  • Hotel lodging in Cape Town in a non-public room between 2 – 7 November 2026 (inclusive). 
  • All meals coated (contains breakfast, lunch and dinner on convention days).
• Lifelong membership of the One Young World Ambassador Community, a world community with 20,000+ members in 190+ nations. 

Eligibility

Applicants should:

• Be aged between 18 and 35 years of age*
• Be main a registered non-revenue organisation, social enterprise, or function-pushed firm
• Be answerable for direct resolution-making authority inside their organisation/firm
• Be out there to take part within the One Young World Summit from 3-6 November 2026

* Most delegates who take part within the One Young World Summit are between 18 and 35. The One Young World group will take into account candidates who’re older than 35, pending demonstration of applicable private influence, initiative, and willingness to interact. They aren’t in a position to settle for purposes from those that will probably be aged below 18 on the time of the Summit (3-6 November 2026) 

Assessment Criteria

Applicants and their initiatives will probably be assessed based mostly on:

• Track document of influence in resolving and/or stopping battle at a neighborhood, nationwide, or world degree
• Plan to use funds to scale the scope and depth of their influence 
• Collaboration with affected communities within the creation and supply of their resolution/initiative to finish battle
• Sustainability of the answer/initiative in stopping the re-emergence of battle

Application

The application deadline is June 15, 2026. Late purposes is not going to be thought-about.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Pankaj Award to End Conflict.