Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka

We are working to promote cooperative engagement across traditional dividing lines in Sri Lanka to create a more inclusive national identity, especially through work with youth, women, and community media.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is home to rich religious, ethnic, and linguistic diversity, which became fuel for a 26-year civil war, creating deep societal divisions. The country is now recovering from the civilian and economic tolls. We promote cooperative engagement across traditional dividing lines to create a more inclusive national identity, especially through work with youth, women, and community media.

World rankings

#1 is most peaceful, equal, and democratic

PEACE
#97
out of 163 countries
GENDER EQUALITY
#84
out of 145 countries
DEMOCRACY
#69
out of 167 countries

SRI LANKA: 2022 HIGHLIGHTS NEWSLETTER

Check out the highlights from our Sri Lanka team in 2022.

Latest projects

We-gital Heroes Youth in Digital Peacebuilding

Networks for Peace is a five-year activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The activity is implemented by FHI 360 under the Strengthening Civil Society Globally Leader with Associates Award. This project implemented by Search is funded under Networks for Peace’s Pillar 2 – piloting innovations to address dangerous speech and amplify positive […]

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WT2: Work Together, Win Together – Phase II

WT2: Work Together, Win Together’s Phase II was launched in February 2020 and was a 16-month project supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to strengthen peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka through raising youth’s capacity to recognize hate speech and advance peaceful co-existence and reconciliation on social media. Search targeted youth in […]

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