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 | Relief and Resolve in the Derek Chauvin VerdictA statement from our CEO Shamil Idriss. |
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 | Listen: Your Undivided AttentionOur CEO Shamil Idriss appeared on the leading technology podcast Your Undivided Attention for a conversation on peacebuilding, social media, and healthy societies. |
 | Supporting the Kyrgyz Government on Developing the Concept of the State Policy of the Kyrgyz Republic in the Religious SphereSupporting the Kyrgyz Government on Developing the Concept of the State Policy of the Kyrgyz Republic in the Religious Sphere launched in July 2020 in partnership with the Research Center for Religious Studies (RCRS)… |
 | Report – Principles for Peace – March 2021The “Principles for Peace: Local Insights on Building Peace” report explores the perspectives of local people in six conflict-affected countries — Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, Syria, and Yemen — concerning international support to peace process. This research was conducted as part of the global Principles for Peace initiative. In 57 consultations with 364 members of groups excluded from and underrepresented in these countries’ peace processes — such as women, ethnic minorities, internally displaced persons (IDPs), youth, and local government leaders — participants discussed what peace means in their conflict contexts, challenges and obstacles to realizing peace, and what peace should deliver for their communities and nations. This report highlights key trends and similarities across countries, details locals’ recommendations for international actors, and proposes new principles to guide international actors’ involvement in peace processes. The trends, recommendations, and principles focus on: ensuring meaningful and holistic inclusivity of conflict-affected, marginalized, and minority groups in peace negotiations; building social peace in addition to political peace to address community-level drivers of conflicts and facilitate enduring peace; promoting local leadership and vertical integration of local peacebuilding initiatives into national peace processes; and pursuing international involvement to the extent and in the forms desired by local communities. |
| Advancing the conversation on the Cost-effectiveness of Peacebuilding – A case study approach: Plateau State, NigeriaBy Sarah Ferbach, Institutional Learning Team Fellow, August 2020 This paper explores the cost-effectiveness of peacebuilding as a core question to the long-term prevention of violent conflicts. With most current investigations into the question of cost-effectiveness focusing either on individual programs or on the macro-economic benefits of peace, Search proposes to look at this issue at a different level. Taking Plateau State, Nigeria as a case study, this paper examines a range of programs to understand how multi-sectoral investments in peacebuilding have influenced patterns and trends in scenarios of conflict. This research paper includes three recommendations to support stakeholders in the designing of interventions with the greatest impact on the mitigation of conflict trends, enabling them to articulate the return on investment associated with peacebuilding and ensuring that more resources are directed towards the field. |
| New Youth, Peace, and Security Fund Launched to “propel youth leadership in peacebuilding to the next level”The Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) Fund aims to make peacebuilding fully inclusive of young people. |