Theme: Peacebuilding

Partnership with United Nations Office of the Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator advances shared mission of humanitarian diplomacy WASHINGTON, DC (FEBRUARY 7, 2023) — Global peacebuilding organization Search for Common Ground today announced a new partnership with the United Nations’ most senior official dedicated to humanitarian…

Our food voucher program allows people to choose what they want and shop as regular customers do. Photo by our local partner.  What if your children’s safety depended on the price of your morning latte? An everyday purchase we take for granted is the price some parents in the Northern…

Some of our new cohort in our education and nutrition project. Photo by Luis Silvera. Andres* is 11 years old, and until March 2023, he had never been to school. COVID struck his neighborhood in Venezuela when he was about to start the first grade. Venezuela had already been devastated…

It’s About Time: a mobile museum project in Sri Lanka. Through interactive exhibits, site visits, walking tours, storytelling sessions, performances, and other scheduled events that reflect the history and identity of each locale, it aims to encourage critical thinking and deeper understanding of history’s implications in Sri Lanka. This approach…

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…

The project primarily focuses on addressing the root causes of conflict and preventing the escalation of local disputes by enhancing Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) capacity to mediate community-level grievances. It aims to support the development and implementation of inclusive, culturally sensitive, and accessible local mediation systems. The significance of this…

Alfonso stands in front of his truck, filled with wooden boxes for a woodworking workshop. Photo by Manuel Trillo. Alfonso and his family have been in carpentry for over 30 years. Three years ago, right in the middle of the pandemic, their office was destroyed by a fire. Instead of…

You don’t know your last name. You don’t know your age because you don’t know your birthday. You know it’s almost Christmas, but you don’t know where your mom is. You lost her in the rainy jungle when the angry, shouty man with the gun tucked in his jeans carried…

  Your blood rushes into your ears, muffling people’s screams as machetes slice through the air. You run faster, but you can’t escape the saccharine metallic smell coming at you from everywhere. A sudden burst of pup-pup-pup-pah-pah urges you forward, your feet peddling the air. Bullet casings fall to the…

Raindrops plunked down on the zinc metal roof, sounding like a thousand tiny feet, dancing. Inside her house, Yajaira held out her outstretched palm and laughed. “I’m not getting wet anymore!” Yajaira laughed again, remembering how it had also rained as she rebuilt her roof, making the process all the…