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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 ScreensImpact by year
2018 · Global work and the people behind it
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convening · Apr 25, 2018
Afghanistan in 2020: Is Peace Possible?
Rise to Peace held a public dialogue on Afghanistan’s future at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., bringing lived experience and policy perspectives into the same room.
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media · Jul 2018
The Peace Process Goes on Air
Shah appeared on TOLOnews to discuss U.S. direct talks with the Taliban and the Afghan peace process—an early example of the organization using media as public education, not simply publicity.
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convening · Nov 13, 2018
Countering Violent Extremism: From Definition to Prevention
Rise to Peace continued its public-dialogue series with a discussion focused on violent extremism and prevention, reinforcing the organization’s push to move the terrorism conversation beyond labels and toward the human process that produces violence.
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