Search for Common Ground
From its website:
- Founded in 1982, Search for Common Ground works to transform the way the world deals with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving. We work with local partners to find culturally appropriate means to strengthen societies' capacity to deal with conflicts constructively: to understand the differences and act on the commonalities.[1]
Contents
Operations
Angolan elections
On 24 July 2006, Paul Bonicelli, deputy assistant administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, discussed the upcoming Angolan elections in front of a US Congressional panel:
Bonicelli said the Bush administration is supporting the electoral process with a $3 million grant, in addition to the close to $8 million already devoted to supporting democracy programs in the southern African nation since 2001.
In Angola, he explained, USAID works through American nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), such as the International Republican Institute (IRI), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), IFES (formerly the International Foundation for Election Systems) and Search for Common Ground, which partner with local NGOs to train election workers.
They have provided technical and project management training, as well as voter education materials, to six civil-society electoral networks in the provinces of Luanda, Benguela, Huambo, Bie, Uige and Lund-Sul, emphasizing voter registration, democratic principles and citizen rights and "promoting political dialogue." They also are providing training to Angolan political parties on codes of conduct and dispute resolution techniques, Bonicelli said.[2]
Principals
- John Marks -- President and Founder
Funds
A list of the funding organizations can be found here
In the list one finds:
- National Democratic Institute
- National Endowment for Democracy
- US Agency for International Development
Contact
Washington DC office
- Search for Common Ground (Washington DC)
- 1601 Connecticut Ave. NW, #200
- Washington, DC 20009-1035
- Phone: (+1 202)265-4300
- Fax: (+1 202)232-6718
- E-mail: search@sfcg.org
- website: www.sfcg.org
Brussels office
- Search for Common Ground (Brussels)
- Rue Belliard 205 bte 13
- B-1040 Brussels, Belgium
- Phone: (+32 2) 736 7262:Fax: (+32 2) 732 3033
- E-mail: brussels@sfcg.be
