FOR THE DIGNITY OF ALL
Common Ground USA (CG-USA) is Search for Common Ground’s most significant investment in a self-sustaining, peaceful, and inclusive United States.
An initiative of
We stand on the shoulders of 40
years of peacebuilding around the globe.
Our Vision
Our Team represents our value of “Dignity of All” from the inside out.
We envision an America where we engage in collaboration across differences to address our greatest challenges, and where we can all belong and thrive. Most Americans want to overcome the divisions we face in our society. Disagreement is an opportunity to transform conflict into cooperation on our daily and most pernicious problems. It takes courage. And everyone can do it.
Our Values
Enduring change comes from solving our hardest problems together
We begin with “Dignity of All,” or multi-partiality, the premise that enduring solutions require ownership from across divisions. Our team and our work intentionally emanate from a diverse span of experience, ideologies, races, religions, ages, genders, and geographies.
Our Methodology
Collaboration Builds Trust
Our programs work through multiple levels and fronts – from the national networks to the grassroots, from institutions to individuals, from boardrooms to living rooms to online spaces – but employ the central tenant: that conflict is transformed by growing collaboration, connection, and trust across differences.
Our Impact
Experience, Evidence, and Enduring Change
We apply tested evidence-based interventions and decades of Search for Common Ground’s experience in conflict zones across the world to humanize our neighbors and address misconceptions that tear us apart. We hold a long-term vision while taking immediate action and bringing together siloed components of the field to that end.
Our Latest
Let’s Turn Conflict
Into Community
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