Tor: Research Partnership to Support Advocacy and

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Brussels, Belgique Search for Common Ground Temps plein

**About Search for Common Ground**
- Founded in 1982, Search for Common Ground (Search) is an international non-profit organisation working to end violent conflict and build healthy, safe, and just societies. Using innovative tools, Search seeks to transform the way the world deals with conflict, away from adversarial approaches, towards cooperative solutions. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium and Washington, DC, Search is present in more than 30 countries with over 800 employees worldwide.

**Context**
- Fragility and violent conflicts risk undermining global efforts to reach the SDGs. Only 20% of fragile and conflict-affected countries are on track to achieve their targets by 2030, with millions of people at risk of being left behind. While conflict and protracted crises are on the rise worldwide and with increased divisions within and between societies, there is an urgent need to invest efforts in conflict prevention and move away from adversarial approaches to solving conflict towards cooperative ones.

Despite their best intentions, actions of foreign actors in such contexts (governmental, private, non-profit, media, etc.) have the potential to aggravate existing tensions in local communities and contribute to the eruption of violence if local conflict dynamics are not well understood and taken into account in interventions. In order to reduce this potential negative impact and increase their contribution to positive change, it is essential that these actors (re)shape certain policies and practices that consider more centrally the needs and insights of local communities affected by fragility and conflict.

**About the project**
- In light of this context, Search has been awarded funding for an advocacy project in Belgium in the frame of the 2022-2026 DGD programme cycle, titled ‘Promoting Stakeholders in Belgium and Beyond as Champions of Peace and Sustainable Development’. The project aims to shape interventions by policymakers (Belgian, EU, multilateral and international level), the private sector (with HQ in OECD countries) and other development stakeholders (Belgian NGOs/CSOs and international networks) that are conducive to durable peace and sustainable development in FCAS by advocating for policies and practices that:

- Support and regulate **sustainable business practices** (that are economically viable, socially responsible and environmentally friendly);
- Mainstream conflict-sensitivity (the ability to understand the context, how interventions interact with that context, and to act on this understanding to minimise negative impacts and maximise positive impacts on conflicts);
- Integrate peacebuilding (transforming violent conflict and promoting cooperative solutions).

While the project aims to promote the approaches mentioned above in general, it also focuses more specifically on the following topics linked to conflict in FCAS:
- Natural resource extraction;
- Climate change;
- Humanitarian-Development-Peace (Triple) Nexus;
- Digitalisation.

While activities are mainly implemented in Belgium, they focus on insights and best practices from FCAS, with a specific attention on the Sahel and Great Lakes regions. The impact we seek to have on communities affected by fragility and conflict in these regions, is that they can live in peaceful, just, and healthy societies as a result of the project. The project serves to (1) capture their insights and best practices and (2) provide opportunities for people living in these contexts to engage with the project’s target audience.**Objective of the assignment**:
To support the production of evidence-based advocacy documentation within the project, Search is looking to collaborate with 2 Belgium-based academic / research organisations in order to develop specific research and analysis to supplement our internal research capacities and feed into our advocacy and awareness raising activities. The research would contribute to the outcome of the project with research capacities on the topics involved in the project and support the development of actionable and practical recommendations for Belgian and/or European policymakers, private sector actors or other development stakeholders, as well as contribute to Search’s internal learning activities. Ideally, the collaboration with the academic / research organisation should also serve to increase Search’s impact, expertise, support-base and networks in the Belgian / European (policy) space.Research scope and questions of interest:- **
Theme 1: Peacebuilding impact**: E.g., What difference does conflict sensitivity have for the effectiveness of Triple HDP (Humanitarian, Development, Peace) Nexus programming and which recommendations can be drawn for policymakers and for operationalisation of this concept? What is the social return on investment value of peacebuilding? What is the cost-effectiveness value of peacebuilding interventions in comparison to security operations? How do EU/Belgian citizens perc

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