Location: Middle East & North Africa

Search for Common Ground (Search) is working in this project aimed at contributing to reducing the risk of violent extremism in custodial and non-custodial settings. The project goal is supported by three objectives as follows: Strengthening capacities of detainees, ex-detainees, and prison and related officials in non-violent alternatives to transforming…

Through cooperation with the American University of Beirut’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (AUB-IFI), Search will provide support to identify hotspots in Lebanon with high water-related stress (in terms of quality and quantity) as well as water-related risks of conflicts, in order to propose and prioritize…

Our film “Second Wind” won the “Best Local Short Documentary”. “Second Wind” follows the lives of several former inmates on their journeys through post-carceral reintegration as they gradually reconnect with their communities. The documentary sheds light on former inmates’ experiences inside the prison system and the lack of opportunities for…

The crisis in Yemen has inexorably deepened, with over 20.1 million people in immediate need of humanitarian assistance to survive. Over four million people, including two million children, continue to be internally displaced, with over 400,000 families migrating or seeking asylum to avoid living in extreme precarity. The socio-economic breakdown…

This conflict scan report was prepared by the Search for Common Ground Palestine team. It is the third Palestine scan report prepared as part of Search’s global Working Together Against Corona programme, funded by the European Union. Building on the two previous reports, the report identifies key trends, compared across…

Yemen’s humanitarian crisis has contributed to the internal displacement of an estimated 4 million people, making it the fourth-largest population of internally displaced persons (IDPs), in the world. The ongoing war has notably created a gap in the social structure between IDPs and their host communities. Internally displaced women remain…

Developed by Search for Common Ground in Yemen in 2015, the Community Dialogue Approach (CDA) is a form of local-level mediation which places community members at the heart of dialogue to resolve local conflicts. By engaging local stakeholders directly, peacebuilding skills are rooted within local populations and genuine concerns are…

This report captures findings from the final evaluation of the project “Fostering Social Stability through Strategic Communications” implemented by Search. The project was funded by CSSF and implemented from June 2019 to March 2021 in Lebanon. The project aimed to reduce tensions at a local level amongst and between host…

This report compiles the interventions conducted under a number of Search-Yemen projects implemented between 2018-2019. Through Search's flagship Community Dialogue Approach, trained Insider Mediators worked collaboratively with community members to develop shared solutions and identify action plans to resolve the conflicts, noting local resources that could be leveraged and trusted…

In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, many anticipated disastrous effects for conflict-affected countries beyond the immediate health implications - heightened political tensions, increased polarisation between and among groups, and intensified insecurity and violence that would coincide with impending socio-economic disaster. While there have been intense societal shocks, this…