Search for Common Ground has a 37-year track record of equipping individuals and societies to find alternatives to violence. Its mission is to transform the way the world deals with conflict, away from adversarial approaches and toward cooperative solutions through a type of peacebuilding called “conflict transformation.” Search has over 950 staff in 32 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America, 90% of whom are working in their home countries. The team strives to build sustainable peace for generations to come by working with all sides of a conflict, providing the tools needed to work together and find constructive solutions.
Search is an organization dedicated to learning and evidence building, particularly in the field of peace and conflict. Search’s Institutional Learning Team is composed of 22 staff supporting quality of research, evaluation and learning across the organization and directly engaging with over 50 staff dedicated to these activities across country teams. In addition to Search’s own evaluations and research, we have partnered with academic and donor organizations to produce methods, training, and research that respect conflict sensitivity, amplify local experience, capture the fluidity of cross-border and virtual dynamics of conflict.
Institutional Representative: Adrienne Lemon, Director, Institutional Learning
Adrienne Lemon has served as Search for Common Ground’s Director of the Institutional Learning Team since 2017, overseeing learning systems and quality of research and evaluation across the organization. Her expertise is on social movements and collective behavior, particularly concerning periods of conflict and post-conflict reconstruction. She has led research and evaluation across a wide array of contexts including the Great Lakes Region, the Sudans, the Horn of Africa, Madagascar, Myanmar, Tunisia, Israel and Palestine. In her current position she manages the quality of research produced globally, and the development of learning systems that link action and decision-making to evidence.
As director, Adrienne’s focus is to elevate Search’s critical engagement with our impact on conflict. The team has pursued key research partnerships and consistently strives for better analysis and research approaches to support our understanding of conflicts and the influence of peacebuilding programs on them. Prior to Search, Adrienne conducted her doctoral research in Burundi on the influence of identity and social networks on political participation during conflict. She also served as a consultant on conflict and peacebuilding related to extractive industries, gender-based violence, and youth empowerment. Adrienne holds a PhD in Sociology from Boston University and is currently based in Brussels, Belgium.
Search for Common Ground has a 37-year track record of equipping individuals and societies to find alternatives to violence. Its mission is to transform the way the world deals with conflict, away from adversarial approaches and toward cooperative solutions through a type of peacebuilding called “conflict transformation.” Search has over 950 staff in 32 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America, 90% of whom are working in their home countries. The team strives to build sustainable peace for generations to come by working with all sides of a conflict, providing the tools needed to work together and…