Location: Middle East & North Africa

This snapshot report was prepared by the Search for Common Ground Palestine team in December 2020 as part of Search’s global Working Together Against Corona programme, funded by the European Union. The snapshot identifies key trends among Palestinians at the intersection of COVID-19, social cohesion, community trust, and inter-group conflict…

This report captures findings from the final evaluation of the project “Tourathna - Our Shared Heritage,” implemented by Search Jordan in partnership with Royal Institute for Interfaith Dialogue (RIIFS) . The project was funded by the U.S Department of State, and implemented from October 2018 to May 2020 in targeting…

This report reviews five years of Search’s social cohesion programming to examine the most effective measures for understanding success and what long-term impact looks like.

For 10 years, Search for Common Ground has been working in Yemen to transform conflict. Our global mission is to change the way the world deals with conflict, away from adversarial approaches and toward cooperative solutions—a goal that drives us now more than ever.

Search for Common Ground has worked in Yemen for 10 years, achieving some powerful results along the way. As the protracted conflict in Yemen has continued, the humanitarian crisis across the country has remained the worst in the world, leaving 24 million people in need of humanitarian or protection assistance.…

The DIWAN project was implemented by Search for Common Ground in Wadi Khaled between 2017 and 2019 with funding from the Global Affairs Canada. Diwan aimed at strengthening equitable and inclusive decision-making processes and ensuring more participatory and representative governance in the community. The project engaged with representatives from local…

This Phase II of the Peace Pioneers program was implemented by Search Lebanon from July 2018 to June 2019, with support from the Embassy of Switzerland in Beirut. The project aimed to stimulate private sector engagement in peacebuilding with CSOs in Lebanon. Building on Phase I, this new phase engaged…

Supported by the British Council's Cultural Protection Fund with funding from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sports, Tourathi was implemented from July 2017 to February 2019, by Search for Common Ground in partnership with Arcenciel, Biladi, and NAHNOO, in six geographical areas in Lebanon: Zahle, Sarafand, Tripoli, Salima,…

OneAct project seeks to promote social stability in Lebanon, especially between refugees and host communities, through local champions, positive dialogue, and national media campaigns—including the #OneAct campaign, launched in 2020 [...]

After the explosion in Beirut in August 2020, thousands of ordinary people took action to help others. People generously opened their homes to strangers, helped to clean the streets of destruction, and fed the hungry. These tragic events showed that we have great reserves of compassion and strength, and that…