Theme: Peacebuilding

For 3 consecutive years, we have supported Sierra Leone’s efforts toward a smooth democratic transition by ensuring the inclusion of its citizens, particularly young people and women, in decision-making and governance. The project United for Greater Governance and Participation: Empowering Rural Communities to Strengthen Local Governance and Accountability Processes, funded…

  At the heart of the wide range of social, economic and security crises facing the Diffa region, in southeast Niger, a major problem with significant destabilizing potential has arisen: the reintegration of repentants and other persons detained as part of the fight against Boko Haram. In December 2016, the…

Violent extremism is the choice to use or support violence to advance a cause based on exclusionary group identities. Rwanda is not immune from the influences of extremist ideologies, whether they be internally grown or coming from neighboring countries. In fact, the national government is currently developing its National Action…

United Nations Security Council Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace, and Security was an enormous leap forward for the inclusion of young people in peace processes. While there has been progress since the Resolution’s passage in 2015, youth in many parts of the world are still relegated from contributing to peacebuilding…

The "Case study - UNICEF Somalia Schools as Zones of Peace Programme" reviews the expected and unexpected impacts in 2015 of the UNICEF Somalia’s Schools as Zones of Peace programme implementation through Child to Child Clubs in Garowe on the student (individual), school, family unit, and community level. The Schools…

This is the report of a final evaluation conducted at the end of ‘The Community Peacebuilding Project’ funded by the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) and implemented over a 13-month periods in Yemen. Search’s mission in Yemen is to promote a culture of…

This is the report of an internal mid-term review (MTR) conducted at the end of the second year of this four-year project, “Advancing Social Cohesion in Macedonia". The MTR was completed in June 2019 with the goal of reflecting on project results thus far and identifying potential areas for improvement.…

This is the baseline study report of “Advancing Social Cohesion Project” implemented by Search in Macedonia. This is a four-year project which builds on and expands USAID’s and Search’s previous work in the area of interethnic education in Macedonia. The overall goal of the project is to improve the relationships…

"Information flows and radicalization leading to violent extremism in Central Asia" is a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative study conducted in three countries of the Central Asian region by the SFCG Kyrgyzstan team with the support of Internews Kyrgyzstan and funding provided by the European Union. This comprehensive study consists of…

This report presents the finding of the “Conflict Assessment and Baseline Survey of the UNPBF-funded “Youth as Agents of Peace and Stability in Kyrgyzstan” phase II. The purpose of the study was to measure the extent of correlations between the vulnerability and susceptibility of the marginalized youth to radicalization leading…