Search for Common Ground, led by co-founders and 2006 Skoll social entrepreneurs John and Susan Collins Marks, explores innovative ways to use media to bridge divides.  They’ve hit on a winning formula leveraging the popularity of soccer in Africa.  “The Team” brings together soccer players from different tribes to tackle historic animosities.  Search for Common [...]

Search for Common Ground, led by 2006 Skoll social entrepreneurs John and Susan Collin Marks, has just announced its 2009 Common Ground Awards.  These are “presented annually to honor outstanding accomplishments in conflict resolution, negotiation, community building, and peacebuilding. Recipients have made significant contributions toward bridging divides between people, finding solutions to seemingly intractable problems, [...]

I am honored to be a part of The Elders delegation visiting Israel and the Palestinian Territories from Aug 24-28.  We are meeting with a number of civil society and business leaders, as well as political leaders, to listen, learn and lend momentum to the peace process.
The Middle East has been an area of interest for me for some [...]

Search for Common Ground, led by 2006 Skoll social entrepreneurs John and Susan Collins Marks, is looking for creative types to illustrate what “common ground” looks (and sounds) like.  SFCG, which has a strong media component in its conflict resolution approach, is running a contest asking people to put music and pictures together to convey [...]

Search for Common Ground, co-founded by 2006 Skoll social entrepreneurs John Marks and Susan Collin Marks, is one of the organizations the Sundance Institute is working with under its Stories of Change documentary initiative.  In its current newsletter, Search for Common ground outlines the project:
“The Sundance Institute and the Skoll Foundation have given a grant [...]

The Sundance Institute announced at the Sundance Film Festival this week the initial five grants under its “Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus throught Documentary” initiative.  This is part of the $3 million, three-year partnership between the Skoll Foundation and the Sundance Institute launched in 2007. Per the announcement, “The development and production grant [...]

Common Ground News Service - Partners in Humanity, the key communications vehicle for Skoll social entrepreneur Search for Common Ground’s work on Muslim-Western issues, has just marked its fifth anniversary.  The Common Ground News Service publishes and promotes articles by local [...]