Location: Africa

Peace doesn’t happen in conference rooms. It’s not built with signatures on treaties. It doesn’t live in legal agreements or policy documents. Real peace—the kind that lasts—happens in the everyday. It’s in the moments where neighbors show up for one another, where former enemies share a meal, where people choose…

Discover powerful stories of young people from diverse backgrounds who have overcome adversity and transformed their lives through media, education, and leadership training. From Hussein in Kenya, who found his voice through youth journalism, to Fatoumata in Mali, who defied societal expectations, and Mamadou, who escaped the realities of descent-based…

This email series highlights voices of peace from around the world, to help you find yours. This month’s Voice of Peace is Anaïs Caput, Search’s strategy and design senior specialist. If you were to ask what impresses me most about Search, my answer today would be the same as in…

L’essor des technologies numériques a permis à des millions de personnes d’échanger et de s’engager sur des enjeux locaux et mondiaux. Dans les pays sahéliens, cette tendance est très visible avec un taux croissant de pénétration d’internet qui est de 33,1% au Mali, 19,9% au Burkina Faso et 16,9% au…

Anselm Gibbs, a BBC reporter based in Trinidad and Tobago, tells us about programmes USAID funds in the Caribbean. And Hilde Deman from Search for Common Ground, an international non-profit that uses USAID funding in countries affected by violent conflict, talks about the impact to their work in the Democratic…

Abdelsadig, a senior adviser at the peacebuilding organization Search for Common Ground, led the effort to bring 14 Sudanese women from various civil society sectors to U.N. peace talks in Geneva in August 2024. Their contributions were essential in formulating the 2024 code of conduct adopted by the RSF during…

Watch Search for Common Ground CEO Shamil Idriss discuss on ABC News how the U.S. foreign aid freeze has impacted our work in eastern Congo, where a war has reemerged.

Lessons from insider mediation in Burundi, Niger, and Zimbabwe  At a Glance: This policy brief highlights key lessons learnt on enhancing both the strategic value and the effectiveness of insider mediation as a tool for conflict prevention and resolution in diverse fragile and conflict- affected contexts. The brief draws on…

The Kwa Pamoja Tudumishe Amani II project in the Mtwara Region aims to strengthen collaboration between youth, community leaders, and security actors. The initiative engages youth, women, local government, Bodaboda (taxi moto) groups, and civil society organizations. Search has found that, when supported to engage directly with police and other…

Search for Common Ground, in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), is leading a three-year peacebuilding program, Daraja la Amani | Pontes de Paz, launched in April 2023. The program is being implemented in the border regions of southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique. Its primary aim is to…