Prizes

Earned reputability, publicity, and status… but if you want money, we have that too.

Toda Peace Institute had funding for prizes:

  • 1st place: $500
  • 2nd place: $300
  • 10 honorable mention prizes of $50

Even if you don’t win, you’ve made us smile, which is the real prize!

Who can participate?

The competition is open to everyone who wants to be a “changemaker” to build healthy digital communities. Special invitations for participation will go to the following groups:

  • Kids of any age who have some awareness of peace and peacebuilding and are interested in fostering healthy online norms
  • High school and college students who are already involved in social justice and peacebuilding efforts
  • Peacebuilding organizations and community of practice of peace innovators
  • Social media users interested in promoting peace and social justice

More Detailed Instructions

  1. Create digital content and send to an email address, noting whether you are okay with us tagging you or not.
  2. Digital Peace Factory staff will post this content with their name and/or organization to the Digital Peacebuilding sites on Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook, and other relevant social media platforms.
  3. Our staff will count the number of likes, hearts, up votes, shares, etc. on each platform. We will calculate the most popular posts. (Shares are valued more than likes.)
  4. The top 20 posts will then be judged by a team for their content and creativity – how well the post communicates something about peacebuilding. The team of judges will then chose winners based on their content/creativity score plus the number of likes and shares.

Please refrain from

  • Including references to political figures
  • Including false information – satire is allowed if it does not include false information or harm to another
  • Unkind humor
  • Offensive content towards any particular group or identity
  • Submitting memes created or captioned by others

Submission Content

We encourage  you to create content on peacebuilding values and skills. For example, you can create content on any of these topics:

  • To encourage people to listen to each other
  • To inspire people to talk to people who are different in belief or background
  • To help people find common ground
  • To commit to treating our neighbors with dignity, no matter where they are from or what they believe
  • To urge people to take a deep breath in these anxious times
  • To encourage patience and trust in democracy