Location: Middle East & North Africa

This email series highlights voices of peace from around the world, to help you find yours. This month’s Voice of Peace is Search’s CEO, Shamil Idriss. The US election has dominated minds and airwaves in recent weeks. While our staff and partners across the globe process the outcome in various…

Women are largely excluded from peace and reconciliation processes, despite clear evidence that their participation increases the sustainability of peace agreements. When women are involved in negotiations, peace agreements are 20 percent more likely to last at least two years and 35 percent more likely to last at least 15…

Everywhere in the world, populations are vulnerable to climate change and its effects. However, depending on existing coping mechanisms and availability of support, these effects will be felt differently and have different consequences. In more vulnerable or fragile settings, where people rely on natural resources for survival, tensions can arise…

La sensibilité aux conflits fait référence à la capacité de comprendre et de gérer le contexte d’un conflit et l’impact que même des interventions bien intentionnées (telles que des activités de développement, d’aide humanitaire ou de consolidation de la paix) peuvent avoir sur ce conflit. Elle implique de reconnaître la…

People all over the world look to religion and belief systems for guidance on how to live their lives, including in the public sphere. Unsurprisingly, religious actors therefore play a significant role in shaping the social and political landscapes of many societies – despite their engagement remaining a contentious issue…

Conflict Sensitivity refers to the ability to understand and navigate the context of a conflict and the impact that even well-meaning interventions (like development, humanitarian, or peacebuilding activities) may have on said conflict. It involves recognizing the complex dynamics of conflict, including the interests, grievances, and power relations of the…

This email series highlights voices of peace from around the world, to help you find yours. This month’s Voice of Peace features Maya Savir and Huda Abuarqoub, Search’s Israel and Palestine country directors. Together, they speak about what true “victory” in the Middle East looks like. In the ongoing Israel-Palestine…

This email series highlights voices of peace from around the world, to help you find yours. This month’s Voice of Peace is Jillia Wharton, a Search for Common Ground donor. She is a transformational leadership and team development coach. Based in San Francisco, CA, she has been a Search donor…

This blog was written by Jillia Wharton, a Search for Common Ground donor. She is a transformational leadership and team development coach. Based in San Francisco, CA, she has been a Search donor since 2007. In 2008, I traveled to Nepal with Search for Common Ground. I had just recently…

This email series highlights voices of peace from around the world, to help you find yours. This month’s Voice of Peace is Will Fuller, who leads Common Ground USA’s Resilient States Project in Pennsylvania. Common Ground USA conducts all of Search’s US-based programming. Two veterans sit across from one another…