Theme: Peacebuilding

This email series highlights voices of peace from around the world, to help you find yours. This month’s Voice of Peace is Anaïs Caput, Search’s strategy and design senior specialist. If you were to ask what impresses me most about Search, my answer today would be the same as in…

Executive Director of Search for a Common Ground, Hilde Deman, discusses the bigger picture of why many analysts agree that funding peacebuilding is just as important as defense for the continent’s, and the world’s, stability and provides insights on the impacts these cuts are having on ongoing crises.

Join Shamil Idriss in the Keynote Turning Conflict into Progress in Our Divided Times. Every leader today – whether student activist or community organizer, corporate CEO or country President – is challenged by debilitating polarization and escalating conflict. Even for the rest of us, the rancor and animosity of culture…

In this episode, host Giada Santana talks with Search for Common Ground’s executive director, Hilde Deman and politics reporter Magnus Lund Nielsen to discuss how non-profits grasp Trump’s executive order and the EU’s diminishing role in international development aid.

Anselm Gibbs, a BBC reporter based in Trinidad and Tobago, tells us about programmes USAID funds in the Caribbean. And Hilde Deman from Search for Common Ground, an international non-profit that uses USAID funding in countries affected by violent conflict, talks about the impact to their work in the Democratic…

Watch Search for Common Ground CEO Shamil Idriss discuss on ABC News how the U.S. foreign aid freeze has impacted our work in eastern Congo, where a war has reemerged.

The Kwa Pamoja Tudumishe Amani II project in the Mtwara Region aims to strengthen collaboration between youth, community leaders, and security actors. The initiative engages youth, women, local government, Bodaboda (taxi moto) groups, and civil society organizations. Search has found that, when supported to engage directly with police and other…

Search for Common Ground, in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), is leading a three-year peacebuilding program, Daraja la Amani | Pontes de Paz, launched in April 2023. The program is being implemented in the border regions of southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique. Its primary aim is to…

When we think about conflict, it’s easy to divide the world into winners and losers. We’re taught to root for the protagonist, cheer for our team, and stand with those we feel are “in the right.” But when it comes to the real world—where communities, nations, and individuals intersect—the stakes…

Introduction The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has endured a prolonged and devastating conflict that has inflicted immense suffering on its population and stunted economic growth. Decades of violence, political instability, and human rights abuses have left millions displaced, impoverished, and vulnerable to exploitation. A sustainable path to peace requires…