Committed to Peacebuilding

Founded in 1982, Search for Common Ground (SFCG) is an international organization dedicated to transforming the way the world deals with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and towards cooperative solutions. SFCG's essential work is to create safe ways for adversaries to find sustainable solutions to their conflicts, based on their mutual interests. With 450 local staff working out of 50 offices in 30 countries, SFCG has a proven record of success in bringing entrepreneurial responses to entrenched conflicts throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. SFCG provides a voice for all stakeholders in the culture, with particular emphases on youth, women and minorities.

SFCG's programs are firmly rooted in the societies they serve. SFCG strengthens local leaders, organizations, and entire societies in weaving social cohesion, convinced that peace is most sustainable when it is owned by local residents. At the same time, the resources SFCG offers – including lessons learned elsewhere – can catalyze and reinforce the local peacebuilding process.

SFCG has an innovative toolbox including well-known conflict resolution techniques, such as mediation and facilitation, and less traditional ones, such as TV and radio radio soap operas and other programming, arts and sports festivals, and community organizing. SFCG supports effective dialogue between people and their governments, and among the people themselves, on the issues causing conflicts. These programs reduce tensions, counter negative stereotyping, give voice to moderates, and promote peace.

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