Location: Middle East & North Africa

Context Located on the border with Syria, Wadi Khaled is one of the most impoverished and politically marginalized areas of Lebanon. For many decades, state structures were mostly absent and residents were not registered as Lebanese nationals. Most residents did not receive full citizenship rights until 1994 when the area…

Search for Common Ground (Search) is working in this project aimed at contributing to reducing the risk of violent extremism in custodial and non-custodial settings. The project goal is supported by three objectives as follows: Strengthening capacities of detainees, ex-detainees, and prison and related officials in non-violent alternatives to transforming…

Through cooperation with the American University of Beirut’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (AUB-IFI), Search will provide support to identify hotspots in Lebanon with high water-related stress (in terms of quality and quantity) as well as water-related risks of conflicts, in order to propose and prioritize…

Our film “Second Wind” won the “Best Local Short Documentary”. “Second Wind” follows the lives of several former inmates on their journeys through post-carceral reintegration as they gradually reconnect with their communities. The documentary sheds light on former inmates’ experiences inside the prison system and the lack of opportunities for…

The crisis in Yemen has inexorably deepened, with over 20.1 million people in immediate need of humanitarian assistance to survive. Over four million people, including two million children, continue to be internally displaced, with over 400,000 families migrating or seeking asylum to avoid living in extreme precarity. The socio-economic breakdown…

This conflict scan report was prepared by the Search for Common Ground Palestine team. It is the third Palestine scan report prepared as part of Search’s global Working Together Against Corona programme, funded by the European Union. Building on the two previous reports, the report identifies key trends, compared across…

Yemen’s humanitarian crisis has contributed to the internal displacement of an estimated 4 million people, making it the fourth-largest population of internally displaced persons (IDPs), in the world. The ongoing war has notably created a gap in the social structure between IDPs and their host communities. Internally displaced women remain…

This situation in Lebanon is so desperate, the British Embassy announced it would be “temporarily” withdrawing non-essential staff. There is so little fuel and electricity, it’s become difficult to work. And a steady rise in protests and violence add fuel to an already delicate situation. Earlier, one of the largest…

Developed by Search for Common Ground in Yemen in 2015, the Community Dialogue Approach (CDA) is a form of local-level mediation which places community members at the heart of dialogue to resolve local conflicts. By engaging local stakeholders directly, peacebuilding skills are rooted within local populations and genuine concerns are…

This report captures findings from the final evaluation of the project “Fostering Social Stability through Strategic Communications” implemented by Search. The project was funded by CSSF and implemented from June 2019 to March 2021 in Lebanon. The project aimed to reduce tensions at a local level amongst and between host…