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The Women Peacebuilders who are Reshaping South Sudan

Young women are the members of South Sudanese society who are most likely to be victims of violence and least likely to be voices of peace. Search for Common Ground is changing this dynamic. Following a six-year civil war that killed as many as 400,000 people, South Sudan […]

Report – Building Social Cohesion in the Midst of Conflict: Identifying Challenges, Measuring Progress, and Maximizing Results – November 2020

This report reviews five years of Search’s social cohesion programming to examine the most effective measures for understanding success and what long-term impact looks like.

Strengthening Transparency and Accountability for Mining Communities

Despite the large diamond deposits in Kono and Moyamba districts, these resources’ mismanagement has contributed to perpetuating inequality and poverty. Although the government has taken bold steps to regulate the mining sector, populations still fear the loss of productive agricultural land with little compensation, limited community development, and few alternative livelihood options…

Empowering women to be effective political actors

Women are under-represented in politics at both the national and local levels. Although they constitute half of the population, women and girls, particularly in rural areas, continue to be excluded from governance, political life, and decision making processes…

Promoting Health, Stability, and Security in the Middle East

The Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance builds capacity across and within nations to deal with disease outbreaks.

2018 Voluntary Principles Annual Report

Search for Common Ground is strongly committed to the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs). The VPs are closely aligned with our mission to transform conflict and promote sustainable peace. In 2018, we implemented the VPs across numerous country programmes. In this report, examples from Madagascar, Tanzania, and Guinea are used.

Plateau Will Arise: Building an Architecture for Peace and Tolerance

The documentary focuses on the Peace Architecture Dialogue (PAD), a state-level platform that focuses on creating a mutual understanding of conflict and security issues in the state and coordinated responses by stakeholders from Government, Security and Civil Society. The PAD is a platform set up by us under […]