Search for Common Ground

This email series highlights voices of peace from around the world, to help you find yours.

This month’s Voice of Peace is Ryan McKinny, a world-renowned opera singer named “one of the finest singers of his generation” by Opera News. Ryan also serves on Search’s President’s Leadership Council, an experienced group of global business ex...

When conflict erupts, the instinct is to reach for force.

More security. More enforcement. More authority.

But we know something different.

The communities least likely to tip into violence aren’t the ones with the most security presence. They’re the ones with the strongest social fabric. 

And in coastal Kenya, the people weav...

The question people rarely ask about refugee settlements is whether the people living in them can truly thrive.
Survive, yes. Receive aid, yes. But build something? Own something? Lead something?

Many believe that economic opportunity is too fragile to build on. That the divide between refugee and host communities runs too deep to bridge. That dignity is something ...

For one month, billions of people from different countries, beliefs, and backgrounds gather around the same game. That’s the quiet power of football: it creates spaces where connection becomes bigger than division.

Across communities impacted by conflict, sport has helped rebuild trust, create belonging, and bring people back together again. The World ...

Next to a small shed that serves as a storage room, a group of women gathers regularly to weave baskets together. Like many listening groups around the country in Burundi, they meet to follow radio programs that share stories about economic opportunities and practical ways to build livelihoods. In this group, it inspired the revival of an old tradition.
Basket and bowl we...