Thank You for Choosing to Love Anyway in Your Communities
During our Love Anyway Feasts, people from different backgrounds gather to break bread and have tough conversations. Photo by Julie Schrup Gathering with loved ones and friends isn’t always smooth sailing. There are calendars to coordinate, recipes to hunt down, and dietary requirements to consider. But when we finally come…
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Search for Common Ground & United Nations Announce an Innovative Partnership for Humanitarian Diplomacy
Partnership with United Nations Office of the Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator advances shared mission of humanitarian diplomacy WASHINGTON, DC (FEBRUARY 7, 2023) — Global peacebuilding organization Search for Common Ground today announced a new partnership with the United Nations’ most senior official dedicated to humanitarian…
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Bringing Dignity and Relief to Migrant Families Who Had to Give Up Everything
Our food voucher program allows people to choose what they want and shop as regular customers do. Photo by our local partner. What if your children’s safety depended on the price of your morning latte? An everyday purchase we take for granted is the price some parents in the Northern…
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The Traveling History Museum
It’s About Time: a mobile museum project in Sri Lanka. Through interactive exhibits, site visits, walking tours, storytelling sessions, performances, and other scheduled events that reflect the history and identity of each locale, it aims to encourage critical thinking and deeper understanding of history’s implications in Sri Lanka. This approach…
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Strengthening Community Dispute Resolution
The project primarily focuses on addressing the root causes of conflict and preventing the escalation of local disputes by enhancing Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) capacity to mediate community-level grievances. It aims to support the development and implementation of inclusive, culturally sensitive, and accessible local mediation systems. The significance of this…
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Exercising Compassion Turns a Simple Piece of Wood into a Profound Impact
Alfonso stands in front of his truck, filled with wooden boxes for a woodworking workshop. Photo by Manuel Trillo. Alfonso and his family have been in carpentry for over 30 years. Three years ago, right in the middle of the pandemic, their office was destroyed by a fire. Instead of…
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Investing in Peacebuilding Matters: Saving Lives in Côte d’Ivoire
Your blood rushes into your ears, muffling people’s screams as machetes slice through the air. You run faster, but you can’t escape the saccharine metallic smell coming at you from everywhere. A sudden burst of pup-pup-pup-pah-pah urges you forward, your feet peddling the air. Bullet casings fall to the…
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Holding onto our Shared Humanity in Israel and Palestine
Pain was a red-orange flame threatening to split Fatima’s* hips in half. Stress and trauma were ushering Fatima’s baby into the world before the baby was ready. Fatima fought for her about-to-be-born child’s life while bombs rained down on North Gaza. Under the explosions and her own grunts of pain,…
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Can Europe still contribute to peace in Niger?
Read this article from Search for Common Ground’s Eoin O’Leary & Beatrice Abouya on what role European countries can have in building a peaceful future for Niger. “The withdrawal of French forces from Niger is officially underway, just weeks after French president Emmanuel Macron’s announcement of a full withdrawal by year’s…
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