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Research Report – Handling Harmful Content Online: Cross-National Perspectives of Users Affected by Conflict – April 2021

Search for Common Ground undertook a study to examine how users in conflict-affected societies handle harmful content online, and to identify barriers that they face in using existing mechanisms such as content reporting to make their online spaces safer. The study was possible with financial support from Facebook.

We spoke to 68 individuals in seven countries across four regions: the Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras), East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania), Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan), and Southeast Asia (Myanmar).

The study found that the worst violent content, and most effective responses to it, appear in private groups and messages. Users, including direct participants in violence and active resistors of violence want to make their online spaces safer. However, current strategies that these users favor in tackling harmful content do not address the underlying stress and grievances. The report proposes that if we are to make online spaces safer for people, particularly those who live in conflict-settings – multi-stakeholder engagement is key. There are several recommendations that the report puts forth to drive collective efforts in understanding and proposing root causes of conflict dynamics, instead of just relying on existing mechanisms as the ultimate solution.

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Peace Exchange

Peace Exchange is an open online community to share experiences and resources on conflict sensitive practices, tools and literature.

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Search Joins Consortium to Develop New, Innovative Research and Learning Project

This partnership will develop new approaches to conducting baselines, evaluations, and program monitoring processes.

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Learning and Doing with DME for Peace

This review is the result of a desire to reflect on and learn from the ongoing activities of the DME for Peace project, a knowledge sharing platform focused on best practice for Peacebuilding M&E, and was carried out as a part of the Peacebuilding Evaluation Consortium (PEC) grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York (Carnegie). Between March 1, 2013 and March 31, 2015, the DME for Peace project of Search for Common Ground (SFCG) implemented activities as a part of the PEC, led by the grant prime Alliance for Peacebuilding (AFP). This review examines the period from March 1, 2013 to December 31, 2014; this period covers the entirety of the grant barring the final quarter which was ongoing during the time of this Review.

The overall goal of the PEC is to expand the current understanding of evaluation practices in the peacebuilding community and facilitate field-wide change by developing methodological rigor in peacebuilding evaluation, promoting shared learning and transparency, and encouraging the use of evidence to inform policy. DME for Peace and its associated activities focused on the PEC outcome of Improving the Culture of Evaluation and Shared Learning. To develop a field-wide culture of transparency, open inquiry, and shared learning from both successes and failures for the improvement of peacebuilding practices and impact, DME for Peace continued to develop as a hub for practitioners, evaluators and academics to share best and emerging practices on how to design, monitor and evaluate peacebuilding programs. The objective of the Review was to examine the effectiveness and relevance of DME for Peace project activities in increasing shared knowledge of Peacebuilding M&E.

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New Evidence on Elections and Civic Participation in Fragile States: Results from an RCT Impact Evaluation in Sierra Leone

To RSVP, please click HERE. This year there will be more than 20 elections across Africa, including many in conflict and fragile states like the Central African Republic, Chad, and Niger. Elections are often flash points for violence and instability, but they can also be critical times to […]

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Our Rapid Response to Violent Conflict

Violent conflict is not static. While changing political, social, economic and cultural circumstances impact its dynamics in the long run, more immediate events – a sudden change in local leadership, a series of protests, an accident, or even the passing of the seasons – impress a new direction […]

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Conflict Scans – Guidance Note

This document is a guide to the conflict scan approach, which was developed by program and DM&E teams at SFCG to encourage learning and reflection with regards to the contexts in which we work.

For more information on the sfcg approach to conflict analysis, please contact our ILT department.

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