Repairing the Past: What the United States Can Learn from the Global Transitional Justice Movement
Transitional justice is about the most difficult dilemmas facing a society during some of the most troubling and challenging moments of its history. It is applied when a country needs…
COVID-19 in War Zones: A Peacebuilder's Perspective on the Pandemic
Jess Murrey, advisor at Search for Common Ground (2006 Skoll Awardee), recently spoke with two peacebuilders, Shoqi Al-Maktary from Yemen and Ehsanullah Abrar in Afghanistan, to learn how countries torn…
Essam Daod on Why Mental Health Support in Refugee Crises is so Important—and Underfunded
Essam Daod co-founded Humanity Crew in 2015 to provide first response mental health and psycho-social support for refugees and people in crisis. Journalist Ray Suarez sat down with Daod to…
Police Violence, Video, and Truth Telling at WITNESS
It’s been 55 years since police violence sparked the Watts rebellion. It’s been 28 years since the Rodney King arrest, beating, filming, and subsequent uprising in South Los Angeles. Today,…
Babban Gona Turns Potential Fighters into Productive Farmers
The quiet agricultural revolution that Kola Masha has sparked in north central Nigeria has its roots in the early 20th century fields of South Dakota where his grandfather banded together…
Democracy in Crisis? Populism, Polarization, and Civic Engagement
In the last several years, a wave of populist leaders have risen—and in many cases taken office—around the world. As a globalized economy and the automation of work catapults winners…
We Stand #WithRefugees
Today, we are committing to standing #WithRefugees. By the end of 2016, more than 65.6 million people had been displaced by conflict or fled human rights violations—22.5 million were refugees,…
Skoll World Forum 2017 Reflection: Civil Society Under Fire
In the past five years, 70 countries have passed restrictive laws controlling civil society organizations, with more than half of them restricting foreign funding. There is a crisis of effectiveness…
Colombia: Referendum Result Presents Opportunity for Dialogue
After more than four years of negotiations, the referendum to ratify the final peace agreement that would end the armed conflict between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas was held on October 2, 2016. It…
