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About Us
We advance peace and stability by expanding education—especially for youth and women—promoting peace through dialogue and mutual understanding, and treating clean water, food sustainability, and basic resources as stability issues. We combat hate and violence by strengthening people and communities early.
A world where misinformation and dehumanization fail to recruit; where communities have the tools, opportunity, and leadership to choose stability over violence; and where peace is built through knowledge, dialogue, and resilience.
We’re built to deliver—research, briefs, reports, and public education that people can actually use, not slogans that disappear after a campaign.
The fellowship is our backbone. It’s how we scale impact without losing quality—training people and producing real work at the same time.
We don’t take political sides. We take human dignity seriously—and we build prevention through education, dialogue, and resilience.
Rise to Peace was founded by Ahmad Shah Mohibi. He grew up in war and learned early that violence doesn’t start with a weapon—it starts when people lose opportunity, lose trust, and lose access to truth. Later, through frontline public-service experience and close work with practitioners handling violence after the fact, the same lesson held: prevention wins. This organization exists to do prevention at scale—through the way of the word over the way of the gun.
Since 2017, we’ve trained 600+ fellows and interns from 34 countries. Fellows learn research, writing, responsible digital engagement, and execution— while producing publications, supporting convenings, and strengthening public education.
- Explore: risetopeace.org/about-us/fellowship/
- Apply: fellows@risetopeace.org
Our model connects people across regions, disciplines, and time zones—students, researchers, journalists, and practitioners—working toward one mission. It’s how we scale consistency across publications, convenings, and public awareness.
- See our work: What We Do
- Read output: Publications
Rise to Peace is not funded by any government. Your support sustains research, training, dialogue, and public education that pushes the world toward peace.
Why Rise to Peace Exists
Rise to Peace grew from a simple belief: people from different backgrounds can learn from one another and better understand the conditions that lead to terrorism and violent extremism. Nearly ten years later, that idea still guides our work.
A Ceasefire, or simply a prelude to the next act? Analysing the collapse of the US-Iran Islamabad Peace-Talks.
The United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on 7 April 2026, narrowly averting further escalation after weeks of hostilities and shortly before a declared US deadline to instenisfy strikes against Iranian targets. The agreement included Iran’s commitment…
Closure of the Strait of Hormuz: Is Alaska the Plan for a Bailout?
By Lola McEwen – Rise to Peace Fellow This past year, President Donald Trump met with President Vladimir Putin at a summit at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) in Anchorage, Alaska, primarily discussing the state of the war in Ukraine. This…
Biometrics, Surveillance & Rights: The DHS Vision vs. Civil Liberties
By Mildred Miranda – Rise to Peace Fellow The expansion of biometric integration across the Department of Homeland Security in 2026 represents a pivotal transformation in American security governance. The proposal to unify facial recognition, fingerprint databases, and interoperable identity…
The OAS’s Role in Current Geopolitical Tensions in the Americas
By Lola McEwen – Rise to Peace Fellow The United States of America carried out a mission in Venezuela on January 3, 2026, that resulted in the capture of then Venezuelan presidentNicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, to face…