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RISE TO PEACEThe way of the word over the way of the gun
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U.S. nonprofit · People across borders
Connecting the world.
We bring people together across borders to understand global challenges, share what they know, and put research, education, data, and ideas to work for peace.People across borders sharing knowledge, opportunity, and ideas for peace.
The way of the word over the way of the gun.
Our Story
From war to a wider world.
Ahmad Shah Mohibi was born in war. Education, information, travel, technology, and people from different cultures showed him a wider world. Rise to Peace grew from the idea that knowledge and opportunity should not stop at borders.
Meet the People
Raphaella Alioto GraceBA Justice and Peace StudiesUnited States
John SimpsonSenior LecturerOther
Shannon KernStudentUnited States
Lola McEwenRegional Lead- Latin America & CaribbeanUnited States
Gianna FurnariIntern/CampaignUnited States
Thalia GustinaResearcherUnited States
Douglas MedinaU.S. EnvoyUnited States
Peter Oliver SussmanResearch Associate & AnalystUnited States
Amyelle NoppeneyPolicy AnalystFrance
Omolola Brown-OdigieDoctoral ResearcherUnited Kingdom
Find your place
Bring something. Learn something. Pass something forward.
Students, researchers, technologists, practitioners, advisors, writers, and institutions can all enter the work from a different place.
01FellowshipLearn by doing research, interviews, data work, and publication→
02Research & AnalysisResearch, write, interview, compare evidence, and publish→
03Intelligence & DataHelp improve data, monitoring, analysis, and responsible AI-assisted workflows→
04Expert & AdvisoryBring professional, technical, regional, or lived experience→
05Projects & PartnershipsBring a question, tool, course, event, dataset, or project idea→
The work
What one person learns should not have to stay with one person.
We research and publish, collect and analyze data, teach, speak, mentor, convene, use modern tools, and work on projects so useful knowledge can travel.
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Media & public conversation
Local knowledge should travel.
Members bring research, lived experience, and regional perspective into interviews, events, classrooms, and public conversations.
Read the analysis →Our Story
From war to a wider world.
Still at the centerThe way of the word over the way of the gun.
Ahmad Shah Mohibi was born in war. Education, information, travel, technology, opportunity, and people from different cultures showed him a wider world.
Rise to Peace grew from that experience and a simple belief: where someone is born should not decide how much knowledge, opportunity, or human connection they can reach.
Today, people across countries bring what they know to understand conflict, terrorism, security, and the forces that shape peace — through research, media, mentoring, data, events, and projects. What one person learns should not have to stay with one person.
People at Rise to Peace
Different places. Different perspectives. Shared work.
Students, researchers, practitioners, technologists, advisors, journalists, and community voices bring what they know, learn from one another, and carry useful ideas farther.
Meet everyone
Douglas MedinaU.S. EnvoyUnited States
Peter Oliver SussmanResearch Associate & AnalystUnited States
Amyelle NoppeneyPolicy AnalystFrance
Omolola Brown-OdigieDoctoral ResearcherUnited Kingdom
Lucas SastreBA Political Science, MA Latin American and Caribbean StudiesUnited States
Nawras HamanooriGraduate Research AssistantUnited States
Shane RyanBA Political ScienceUnited States
maroua moujahidstudent researcherMorocco
Steven OchoaResearcherUnited States
Vienne AbrahamianResearch and Policy LiaisonUnited States
Souheil MouhajirCo-Director of the Africa ProgramUnited States
Martin BrownUnited States
Zalán AlkonyiPhD in HistoryHungary
Noura GadallahMA in political scienceEgypt
Raquel RomeroBA Public AdministrationUnited States
Annabelle GadelWriting and Publication CoordinatorCanada
Radu CheoseaMSc CybercrimeUnited Kingdom
KAMRAN SALEEMAML/CFT investigatorPakistan
Jack LindstromMaster of International AffairsUnited States
Zara MansoorPakistan
Sujoud AwaisResearcher and editorMalaysia
Priyanka PatilGeopolitical Intelligence AnalystIndia
Abdur RehmanPhD / Peace and Counter TerrorismPakistan
Abdul BasitResearcherGermany
Denis BleilBA Global Affairs with a concentration in Human SecuritySouth Korea
Gail QuennevilleAdvsiorUnited States
Mohammad Urva RindBS Defence and strategic studiesPakistan
Furqan KhanMA International RelationsUnited States
Noah Marks-DelgadoBSc Security and Crime ScienceUnited Kingdom
Lauren McGuireDoctor of Social WorkUnited States
Abdifatah AbdiBachelor's Degree, LawSomalia
Jakub SzydelskiCommunication specialistPoland
Dr Victoria GregsonSenior Lecturer and Course Director MSc Counter TerrorismUnited Kingdom
Raphaella Alioto GraceBA Justice and Peace StudiesUnited States
Sandra Wong CabelloMA in Public Management, MA in International Security and Specialization in International MigrationMexico
Adrian BurgosPursuing an MA in International AffairsUnited States
Grace WendoPrograms LeadKenya
Hanna Bahia RousselGeopolitical Risk AnalystFrance
Deon FosterJamaica
Dr Waseem DinPolicy Analyst, ResearcherPakistan
Alexander AurinSecurityUnited States
Chris Mensah-AnkrahResearcherGhana
Tanvi AggarwalBA Political ScienceIndia
Umar bin IlyasBA. LLBPakistan
Jaida HeidkampMaster's of Public and International Affairs, Concentration in Security and IntelligenceUnited States
Vanshika MishraMA International RelationsIndia
Michael LeoProgram DirectorTanzania
Huma RafiqBS international RelationsPakistan
Rumeau Philippe ÁKosSecurity Studies StudentHungary
Thalia BlanksonResearcherUnited States
Aammarah MahomedInternational RelationsSouth Africa
Simon CoddingtonSecurity Lane Performance ManagerUnited Kingdom
Fabrizio Gabriel del Piélago MerinoCEOSpain
Ehtasham AliResearch AssistantPakistan
Hussain Bux KorejoDeputy Director ProgramsPakistan
Ainesh DeyPostgraduate StudentIndia
Ahmad Shoaib NooriProject ManagementAfghanistan
Syeda Sawera HashmiPolicy Analyst, Governance and Public PolicyPakistan
John SimpsonSenior LecturerOther
Thalia GustinaResearcherUnited States
Gianna FurnariIntern/CampaignUnited States
Shannon KernStudentUnited States
Farhan AliResearch fellow/Counter —TerrorismPakistan
Yiyang LiuBoard DirectorChina
Vishwajeet SinghStudentIndia
Emmanuel FatadeFounderNigeria
Vani WarwalUndergraduate StudentIndia
Tamanna SharmaStudentIndia
Umaima AliPhD StudentPakistan
Tareq Hamid Al-FahdawiDirector of the Centre for Strategic StudiesIraq
Timothy McGillUnited States
Zujajah ShaikhStudentJapan
Chandara SambanNews Correstpondent / Junior ResearcherCambodia
Alaa HadidGermany
Salwa SabahatMemberPakistan
Benjamin BaruchResearch InternUnited States
Lola McEwenRegional Lead- Latin America & CaribbeanUnited States
Matthew Mason-RogersPolitics & International Relations GraduateUnited Kingdom
Harriet BerryStudent - MSc Crisis and Security ManagementOther
Solomon NaftaliyevInternational security, war & conflict, Middle East и Indo-PacificIsrael
Velana ValdezStudent - B.A. Political Science and PhilosophyUnited States
Lamin SannehGraduate Student ResearcherUnited States
Mildred MirandaDoctor of Criminal Justice (DCJ) — Successfully DefendedUnited States
Mahmmoud NasserWriter and researcher on Global South affairsEgypt
Mariana Seidner IsaacsIntern AnalystColombia
Mehtab YaqoobResearch analystPakistan
Viviana RizzoEarly-career feminist peace and conflict researcherItaly
Gregory SzczepanskiVice-PresidentPoland
Ahmad Shah MohibiFounderUnited States
Michael SherwinFounding Board MemberUnited States
What we do
Understand the world.
Develop people. Put knowledge to work.
Rise to Peace has spent years studying terrorism, violent extremism, conflict, and international security — including the conditions that drive them and the ways communities and institutions prevent and respond to them. That work sits alongside foreign affairs, politics, human rights, information, technology, development, and peacebuilding.
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Understand the world
Researchers and practitioners work across terrorism and violent extremism, international security, foreign affairs, politics, conflict, cyber and digital threats, human rights, emerging technology, and other questions that shape peace and stability. Evidence, interviews, OSINT, data, and local context help us understand what is changing and why.
Research & analysis → 02Develop people
Fellowships, mentoring, coaching, expert access, publication, university partnerships, and real assignments give students and emerging researchers a serious place to learn, contribute, and build experience.
Join Rise to Peace → 03Put knowledge to work
We turn research and experience into briefings, media, training, conferences, data systems, education, community projects, and professional collaborations with organizations that need useful work around a real question.
Professional engagement →Active Intelligence
A living record of global incidents.
Built to make data useful.
Active Intelligence continuously organizes open-source reporting into a structured, source-linked record. AI-assisted detection, filtering, and pattern analysis help reduce noise and surface developments worth reviewing. Human researchers remain responsible for verification, context, and sensitive classifications.
AI-assisted detectionSource-linked recordsTrend analysisHuman review
Global incident intelligence
See what is changing — and the evidence behind it.
Active Intelligence turns a continuous stream of public reporting into a searchable incident record. Teams can compare activity over time, follow countries and event types, review the underlying sources, and use the record as a starting point for deeper analysis.
754 events / 24h42 countries / 24h
Open the live database →
Decision support
Data matters when people can use it.
Government and public institutions can use the record for briefing and situational awareness; private-sector teams for geopolitical and operational context; nonprofits for program planning and field awareness; and researchers or media for evidence, comparison, and follow-up. It does not make decisions for them — it gives them a current, source-linked record to inform better ones.
Build a data or intelligence project with us →Learning by doing
Sometimes the biggest difference is
having a place to begin.
Students and early-career researchers do not need to arrive knowing everything. They need a serious place to ask questions, practice the work, receive honest feedback, meet people, and contribute something real.
Get challenged, not just praised
Editorial review, mentoring, revision, and project feedback help people strengthen their judgment and learn how professional work gets better.
Build a body of work
Approved publications, project experience, documented responsibilities, and cross-border collaboration give participants something concrete to carry forward.
Meet people outside your lane
Students, researchers, technologists, practitioners, journalists, advisors, and regional voices learn from one another instead of working in separate rooms.
Young people should not only be invited to listen.Give them access to people, tools, responsibility, and honest feedback. Let them learn, contribute, and leave with stronger judgment, real relationships, and work they can point to.Join Rise to Peace →
Recent work
Research from Rise to Peace.
Research and analysis shaped by evidence, data, interviews, regional knowledge, professional experience, and people looking at the same world from different places.
Global Security Brief · September 12, 2026
Terrorism & Counterterrorism · September 11, 2026
The 9/11 I Don’t Remember
By Alexander AurinRead analysis ↗
Global Trends & Current Affairs · September 11, 2026
Generation after 9/11: The story of Muslim Arab girl
By Noura GadallahRead analysis ↗Editorial independence: Signed articles reflect the research and analysis of their authors. Rise to Peace does not endorse political candidates or parties.
Explore all publicationsBrowse articles, reports, and research briefs →Take part
There is more than one way in.
Join Rise to Peace, work with us professionally, or support the research, learning, mentorship, and projects that keep the door open for others.
For peopleJoin Rise to PeaceStudents, researchers, practitioners, advisors, writers, technologists, and others can find a way to contribute and grow.Join Rise to Peace →
For organizationsWork with usResearch, briefings, training, universities, conferences, data, media, global projects, and partnerships.Explore professional engagement →
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