Location: South Sudan

Mali, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic have recently signed peace agreements. However, the negotiations were mainly limited to adult elites. Although they make up the demographic majority, young people in these three countries lack the means to express themselves and participate in the decisions that affect their lives.…

Search implemented "Youth Talk - Empowering Young People through Media" in Central African Republic, Mali, and South Sudan between 2019 and 2022, with support from the Bezos Family Foundation. The project aimed to empower youth in the three conflict-affected countries and give them opportunities to raise issues, address topics of…

Funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Just Future project is a five-year-long project which started in 2021. In a consortium led by Cordaid, this program is implemented in six countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Mali, Niger, and Afghanistan. In each country, the consortium partners…

This Guide for "Youth As Mediators" was commissioned by Search for Common Ground (Search) in the framework of the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF) 21-month funded project “Strengthening Young Women’s Participation in Local and National Peace Processes in South Sudan.” Being prepared for mediation is extremely important at all three…

This Guide for Practitioners was commissioned by Search for Common Ground (Search) in the framework of the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF) 21-month funded project “Strengthening Young Women’s Participation in Local and National Peace Processes in South Sudan.” In South Sudan, youth are often seen as the perpetrators or victims…

This policy brief has been produced as part of the ‘Strengthening Young Women’s Participation in Local and National Peace Processes in South Sudan’ 21-month long project which was funded by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF). Between December 2019 and June 2021, Search for Common Ground (Search) worked in partnership…

This policy brief has been produced as part of the ‘Strengthening Young Women’s Participation in Local and National Peace Processes in South Sudan’ project which was a 21-month long project funded by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF). Between December 2019 and June 2021, Search for Common Ground (Search) worked…

This report presents and discusses the findings from the final external evaluation of the “Strengthening Young Women’s Participation in Local and National Peace Processes in South Sudan” project (January 2020-September 2021), which was founded by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPF) and implemented by Search for Common Ground (Search) South…

In the world’s youngest country, it is some of the youngest people who are having the greatest impact. Read the stories of Anna and Joyce, two young women finding creative ways to build peace in South Sudan.

Young women are the members of South Sudanese society who are most likely to be victims of violence and least likely to be voices of peace. Search for Common Ground is changing this dynamic. Following a six-year civil war that killed as many as 400,000 people, South Sudan is struggling…