Impact
A decade of work.
Explore the evidence.
Research, public dialogue, community work and the people who make it possible across regions, year by year.
2027The Next Decade: Give Someone Else the Opening
2026From Spreadsheets to a Live Global Security Monitor
2026From a Campus Sidewalk to a Global Network
2025Returning to CNN to Revisit the Evacuation
2025WarGuy: The Founder Story Becomes a Memoir
2025U.S. Troops Ambushed by Gunman in Syria
2023Following Extremism From Streets to ScreensPublications
People
Story & milestones
humanitarian · 2016
Mongolia: Service Beyond Security
Through Mission to Heal, Shah supported a rural medical mission in Mongolia. His career materials describe operations support for a mission that served nearly 1,000 patients and supported four surgeries—an experience that reinforced the idea that security also means access to basic human needs.
View mission photographorganization · 2016
One Story Became a Platform
Shah founded Rise to Peace in 2016, with Michael R. Sherwin as a founding board member. The premise was simple: people should have a place to understand violence, learn from one another and build alternatives through research, education, dialogue and practical work.
Read the full storyleadership · 2016–2017
It Started by Asking People on Campus to Join
Before there was a global network, there was direct recruiting: Shah pitching strangers on a campus sidewalk, asking students and young professionals to volunteer, research, write and help build something. Some joined for a semester; others stayed, returned as mentors, or carried the experience into careers of their own.
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humanitarian · 2016
Mongolia: Service Beyond Security
Through Mission to Heal, Shah supported a rural medical mission in Mongolia. His career materials describe operations support for a mission that served nearly 1,000 patients and supported four surgeries—an experience that reinforced the idea that security also means access to basic human needs.
View mission photograph