Voices of Peace: What I Thought About While Hiding in a Bomb Shelter
This email series highlights voices of peace from around the world, to help you find yours. This month’s Voice of Peace is Dalia Goodhardt, an Orthodox Jewish Israeli who serves as program manager in Search’s Jerusalem office. My husband shook me awake. “Dalia, Dalia—sirens!” The sirens wailed as I ran…
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Unified Hearts, Unified Brand
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.…
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Freedom of Religion & Belief Roundtables: Key Learnings from Search for Common Ground in Lebanon, Sri Lanka & Uzbekistan 2020-2023
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…
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Voices of Peace: Taking a Stand Without Taking a Side
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…
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Universal Code of Conduct on Holy Sites
Holy Sites are places of profound significance and sacred religious attachment whose special character and integrity are to be preserved and protected against all violence and desecration. In focusing on issues of definitions, preservation, access, sharing, conflict prevention and resolution, reconstruction, memorialization, expropriation, education, establishment, excavation and research, this Universal…
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A Window on Mount Zion: From Conflict to Dialogue and Cooperative Action
The Window on Mount Zion project implemented by Search for Common Ground (SFCG) in partnership with the Jerusalem Intercultural Center from 2015 to 2016, with financial support from the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), had at its core two main components: 1) Establishment and sustainment of a Jerusalem Forum…
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As We Pause Our Jobs Empowerment Program in Iraq*, A Legacy of Family Lives On
In a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Iraq, many parents struggle to meet their children’s basic needs. When emergency situations become long-term displacement, relief aid funding dries up, and people have to fend for themselves. We met Khernof, a widow with four children, in an IDP camp…
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Nadima Changes the Story for Young Brides Traumatized by ISIS
Nadima’s vision was so clear, she could imagine every element. She dreamed of opening a glamorous salon for women. The interior would be spacious and clean; painted a chic charcoal grey with mirrors and trim details picked out in gold. It would be a comfortable space for women to get…
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Holding onto our Shared Humanity in Israel and Palestine
Pain was a red-orange flame threatening to split Fatima’s* hips in half. Stress and trauma were ushering Fatima’s baby into the world before the baby was ready. Fatima fought for her about-to-be-born child’s life while bombs rained down on North Gaza. Under the explosions and her own grunts of pain,…
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Put People First with a Holiday Meal in Juarez
Excitement crackled through the main room, which had been prepared for the occasion. All around the communal tables sat people ready to give thanks. “I’m grateful because I will cross tomorrow,” said one person who had been waiting months for an appointment. “I’m grateful because I’m waiting [here], and I’m…
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