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Black History Month in the 21st Century: Sharing a Room, Sharing a Country,...
As we reach the end of Black History Month in 2012, The Common Ground Blog asked our colleague Jeanné Isler, Project Director for Search for Common Ground on Race, to talk about her work on the...
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The need for a culture of common ground in Tunisia: a view from the back of a...
We are delighted to introduce our newest guest blogger, Lenore Dukes. Lenore has been with SFCG for the past 8 months, the last 2 months of which have been as an intern with our team in Tunisia. She...
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Sports motivate youth dialogue in the Sri Lankan hill country
Thank you to Ayodhya Krishani Amarajeewa from the SFCG Sri Lanka office for submitting this blog post about sports proving a path toward community empowerment for young people in Sri Lanka. “The...
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The Highest Common Denominator
By: Christopher White The problem with experts As the movement was in its early stages, Occupy Wall Street played itself out as a living embodiment of the ideal of democracy. Zucotti Park, with its...
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Who is Responsible for Maintaining Peace?: The Need for Self-Awareness in...
By Elisabeth Biber How can ordinary people like you and I make a real difference in a world beset with troubles and divisions? And if not us, whose responsibility is it to maintain peace? Before...
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Another Special Day in Bologna
By Kiran Peter, Pakistan (Cross-posted from the IPSI Institute) The IPSI symposium started yesterday with Michael Shipler, the Asia Director at Search for Common Ground and Rajendra Mulmi, the Director...
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The Dawn of a New Day for the Niger Delta
We are excited to announce the launch of the website for an innovative and trend-setting project we are leading in the Niger Delta. ‘Tomorrow is a New Day‘, funded by the European Union, is promoting...
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Are Personal Friendships and Political Affiliation Mutually Exclusive?
By Woodrow Covington At a party before I left for Sierra Leone I was speaking with a group of my graduate school friends when it came out that one of our classmates was a staunch Republican. The...
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What Exactly Is the Conflict Around Race?
Why Race? People sometimes ask me, “Why does a Conflict Resolution organization have a program on race?” The short answer is that the social construct we call race in the United States fuels conflict...
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Fishing for Change in the Niger Delta
By John Lynch & Stephanie Fagan We want to share a story with you from Nigeria’s Niger Delta. It begins with Oyowe, a widowed fisherman from Kobe. Oyowe’s community knew him as a tireless worker...
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