Location: Sri Lanka

We’re peacebuilders in Sri Lanka who are a part of the world’s largest locally-rooted peacebuilding organization. Others like us are working across 33 countries to change the way the world deals with conflict. We believe that conflict is natural, but violence is always avoidable. In our 40 years of working…

Search for Common Ground research has shown that users experience the worst violent content and the most effective responses to it in private groups or private channels. This is particularly important and relevant for groups who may belong to minority groups or be otherwise ostracized in their mainstream culture or…

Overall Objective: To prepare experienced women leaders to effectively provide mentorship support for trained young women leaders in designing and implementing community initiatives In Specific, at the end of the workshop participants will be able to: Gain an understanding on key concepts, methodology and timeline of the project Be aware on key…

This module provides the base for capacity building training of selected emerging women leaders (which is one of the key activities of the project under outcome 1 and 2) to develop their Leadership qualities with an understanding on the Common Ground Approach (CGA) and Context Assessment Tools. Following the capacity…

Check out the highlights from our Sri Lanka Team in 2022.

The project implemented from January 2020 to July 2022 (including a 6-month extension) by Search was funded by the European Union under its ‘Enhancing Community Service Organisations' Contribution to Governance and Development Process in Sri Lanka’ programme. The theory of change that underpins the project assumes that “if local women…

We-gital Heroes, launched in March 2022, was a two-year project that aimed to establish a digital platform for youth capacity building, mentoring, and collaborative development of social media campaigns targeting online dangerous speech. The project was funded under the FHI 360-led Networks for Peace’s Pillar 2 – piloting innovations to…

WT2: Work Together, Win Together’s Phase II was launched in February 2020 and was a 16-month project supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to strengthen peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka through raising youth’s capacity to recognize hate speech and advance peaceful co-existence and reconciliation on social…

This toolkit is developed to facilitate a 3-day training program on countering hate speech developed by Search for Common Ground (SFCG) Sri Lanka. The training tool kit include the training modules namely overall landscape of social media, digital advocacy, online hate speech, digital storytelling, online safety and editing tools. It…