How Your Support Keeps Children From Abandoning Their Education In Venezuela
Your support gives these kids a hot, nutritious meal during their school day. Photo by Ronal Labrador. “Mommy, my head hurts, please give me some bread,” exclaims Pablo, a four-year-old boy, as he gets ready for school. Pablo’s mother’s heart breaks as she tries to comfort her son, knowing that,…
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Search for Common Ground Applauds Rollout of Declaration on Climate, Relief, Recovery, and Peace at COP28
Search for Common Ground, the world’s largest peacebuilding organization, welcomes the release of the Declaration on Climate, Relief, Recovery, and Peace, supported by 70 countries at COP28. This significant step forward, along with the first-ever day dedicated to relief, recovery, and peace as part of the official COP agenda, marks…
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Policy Work in Three Explainers
What is Policy Work? Policy work is advocacy. It is an effort to educate and inform the institutions making decisions to resolve conflict. Policy work influences how the Department of State, the US Congress, the UN, and other international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) adjudicate resources. At the heart of our policy…
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Your Support Puts Families First in Northern Iraq
As Shkeb walks through the camp, he is filled with pride and thanks because he knows how far this community has come over the last nine years. Until recently, Shkeb had to travel far outside the camp to purchase basic necessities for his family, which ate up more time and…
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With SHE WINS, We All Win
Women receive training to strengthen their ability to work with victims of trafficking and violence against women. Photo by our local partner. In a Tashkent hotel conference room, a dozen women have gathered. Leaders of their own nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are here to design new projects to empower women in…
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The Mu Gina Gobe Project: Building a More Peaceful Tomorrow in Niger
Soumana poses outside his welding factory. Photo by Oriane van den Broeck. The staccato rhythm of hammers fills the air. In this metal workshop in Niger, Soumana, part of a diverse group of iron workers, races against the clock to fill orders. Not that long ago, this scene would have…
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Can Europe still contribute to peace in Niger?
Read this article from Search for Common Ground’s Eoin O’Leary & Beatrice Abouya on what role European countries can have in building a peaceful future for Niger. “The withdrawal of French forces from Niger is officially underway, just weeks after French president Emmanuel Macron’s announcement of a full withdrawal by year’s…
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CNN x Search for Common Ground: Search CEO Shamil Idriss on CNN discussing the Israel-Gaza War
On October 21, 2023, Search for Common Ground CEO Shamil Idriss joined CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield to discuss the Israel-Gaza War. Shamil discusses the need to end all violence against civilians now and ensure humanitarian aid can get in, how there is no military solution to this conflict, and explains that…
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A Letter from Our Founder, John Marks
We began in 1982 at the height of the Cold War, and we focused on building bridges between East and West. Back then, we had two employees, a handful of supporters, and a minuscule budget. And we had the audacity to think we could change the world – from a…
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A snapshot of our work in Sri Lanka in 2022
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…
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