Location: Asia

For 40 years, Search for Common Ground has been dedicated to ending human suffering caused by violent conflict. We connect peacebuilders from the bustling streets of the Middle East and Africa to the lively landscapes of Latin America and the diverse communities of the United States, fostering unity amidst diversity.…

Search for Common Ground started implementing the project Women Community “Sheroes”: Advancing Women Leadership in Repatriation and Reintegration (R&R) in February 2023. Funded by the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI), the project is implemented by Search for Common Ground together with its two local partners, Public Fund DIA…

Search for Common Ground (Search) through its partners, Shaoor Foundation for Education and Awareness (SFEA) and Pakistan Research Institute for Sustainable Media (PRISM), implemented a project led by youth titled “Youth for Humanity: Engaging Youth to Promote Religious Freedom in Pakistan”. This initiative centers on fostering public support for peaceful…

Search for Common Ground (Search) supported the implementation of the project ‘Inspiring the Next Generation of Independent Media in Pakistan,’ to support the growth of independent and diverse media in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. With a planned project duration of two years, the project implementation period was cut short to…

Promoting Principles of Interreligious and Intra-religious Tolerance through Media in Uzbekistan, launched in September 2023, is a 14-month project to foster positive narratives of interreligious and intra-religious tolerance and coexistence in Uzbekistan. Context Despite being a multiethnic and multi-confessional country with a variety of ethnic groups and interreligious tolerance being…

#YoshXabador: Youth Against Corruption, launched in January 2024, is a two-year project to foster the agency of youth to support anti-corruption in a safe and constructive manner. Context Despite the Uzbekistan government’s initiatives to curb it, the persistence of corruption in both the public and private sectors continues to be…

#Yoshstan: Empowering Youth CSOs, launched in October 2023, is a two-year project funded by the European Union that aims at expanding local youth’s access to legal information and information related to youth issues in Uzbekistan, supporting the important directions of reforms aimed at establishing direct dialogue with the people in…

The pervasive issue of Cyber Sexual and Women-Targeted Violence (CSWTV) has emerged in Sri Lanka alongside the increase in digital penetration and internet accessibility. This study, conducted in 2023 as part of the project “Caught in the Web – Tackling Gendered Drivers of the Conflict and Exclusion in Cyberspace”, commissioned…

Search for Common Ground (Search) was awarded funding to build Freedom of Religion and Belief (FoRB) Roundtables in Search for Common Ground (Search) was awarded funding to build Freedom of Religion and Belief (FoRB) Roundtables in Lebanon, Sri Lanka, and Uzbekistan from 2020-2023. Built into the model was a plan…

This email series highlights voices of peace from around the world, to help you find yours. This month’s Voice of Peace is Search CEO, Shamil Idriss. I want to introduce to you a new email series our team is crafting, designed to share some of the insights that guide our…