[3] Since its founding in 1982, Search for Common Ground has helped to avert genocide in Burundi,[4] supported post-civil war elections in Liberia and Sierra Leone,[5] shaped gender norms in Nepal with a TV show reaching 25 percent of the population,[6] and mainstreamed sexual assault training for soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Search for Common Ground created an archive of stories from people on all sides of the violence, including handwritten letters, audio recordings, and children’s drawings.

Issues came to a head in Lamu County in 2011, when a surge of al-Shabaab members posing as fishermen led the local government to ban nighttime fishing.

Search for Common Ground facilitated discussions to manage tensions and devise a solution: digital ID cards that enabled nighttime fishing to return after seven years of hardship.

[11] In 2013, Search for Common Ground partnered with the Ma’an Network to create The President, a political reality TV show that promoted the democratic engagement of Palestinian youth.

[3] In the 2000s, a senior United Nations official referred to the Democratic Republic of the Congo as “the rape capital of the world,”[12] with 54 percent of human rights abuses committed by the military and police.

The show tells the story of Aasha Singh, the fictional first female Prime Minister of Nepal, played by Nepali star Gauri Malla.

Search for Common Ground created Studio Ijambo as an independent radio station staffed by a mix of Hutus and Tutsis and promoting reconciliation through news programs and soap operas.