Impact
A decade of work.
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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
Story & milestones
leadership · 2017–present
A Fellowship Became a Leadership Pathway
Rise to Peace evolved into a learning and career-development environment for students, interns, researchers, analysts, advisers and working professionals. Participants could publish, monitor, interview, build data projects, support events, learn open-source research and take responsibility early—then remain connected as mentors and collaborators.
Read the full storyintelligence · From 2017
Active Intelligence Began as Human Work
Before today’s AI-assisted workflows, Active Intelligence was built around people. Researchers followed public reporting, local sources and open social platforms, logged security incidents, compared sources and produced recurring updates. The core principle was—and remains—human judgment before publication.
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From the Field to the Elliott School
Shah completed graduate study in International Policy and Practice at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, connecting field experience with policy, diplomacy and institutional practice.
Read the full storycommunity · Jul 8, 2017
Say Hello: Peace Starts With Human Contact
One of the early community projects pushed the mission outside policy language and toward a simpler idea: contact, conversation and human recognition are part of how societies resist fear and division.
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convening · Dec 6, 2017
Global War on Terrorism: Myths, Realities, Solutions
Rise to Peace convened a public discussion at George Washington University’s Elliott School around the Global War on Terrorism—part of an early strategy to bring lived experience, researchers, journalists and practitioners into the same room.
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George Washington University, Elliott School · 2017-12-06
Global War on Terrorism: Myths, Realities, Solutions
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leadership · 2017–present
A Fellowship Became a Leadership Pathway
Rise to Peace evolved into a learning and career-development environment for students, interns, researchers, analysts, advisers and working professionals. Participants could publish, monitor, interview, build data projects, support events, learn open-source research and take responsibility early—then remain connected as mentors and collaborators.
Read the full storycommunity · Jul 8, 2017
Say Hello: Peace Starts With Human Contact
One of the early community projects pushed the mission outside policy language and toward a simpler idea: contact, conversation and human recognition are part of how societies resist fear and division.
View original storyconvening · Dec 6, 2017
Global War on Terrorism: Myths, Realities, Solutions
Rise to Peace convened a public discussion at George Washington University’s Elliott School around the Global War on Terrorism—part of an early strategy to bring lived experience, researchers, journalists and practitioners into the same room.
View event