Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is home to rich religious, ethnic, and linguistic diversity. Instead of being celebrated, these differences became fuel for a 26-year civil war, creating deep divisions within society. The country is now recovering from the civilian and economic tolls. We are working to promote cooperative engagement across traditional dividing lines in Sri Lanka to create a more inclusive national identity, especially through work with youth, women, and community media.

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Bridging differences, building understanding -

Search for Common Ground research has shown that users experience the worst violent content and the most effective responses to it in private groups or private channels. This is particularly important and relevant for groups who may belong to minority groups or be otherwise ostracized in their mainstream culture or society. As such, group administrators have unique authority and influence over their members and are critical stewards of healthy and safe online interactions.

We-gital Heroes Youth in Digital Peacebuilding - Networks for Peace is a five-year activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The activity is implemented by FHI 360 under the Strengthening Civil Society Globally Leader with Associates Award. This project implemented by Search is funded under Networks for Peace’s Pillar 2 – […]

WT2: Work Together, Win Together – Phase II - WT2: Work Together, Win Together’s Phase II was launched in February 2020 and was a 16-month project supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to strengthen peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka through raising youth’s capacity to recognize hate speech and advance peaceful co-existence and reconciliation […]

WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY: COUNTERING HATE SPEECH - The Preventing Violent Extremism Through Promoting Tolerance and Respect for Diversity project launched in June 2021, supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This five-month project aims to create an enabling environment for young women to actively participate in online counter-hate-speech campaigns. CONTEXT Since the end of […]

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Country Director
Nawaz Mohammed
Country Director – Sri Lanka & Maldives
Telephone: 094 11 2506600
Email: srilanka@sfcg.org

Postal Address
15 Kinross Avenue
Colombo 04
Sri Lanka