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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 Screens

Taliban and Afghan delegates during the Doha peace conference, July 8, 2019. · Rise to Peace

2020

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2020 · Global work and the people behind it

73Publications ↗18People ↗Archive updatingConferences ↗Archive updatingMedia ↗1Photos & visual archive ↗

Major research & publications

EuropeHow Refugees Make their Way to Europe: A special report by Rise to Peace ↗AfghanistanSpecial Report: The Rise of the Islamic State in Afghanistan ↗

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Following the U.S.–Taliban Talks

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Yarning: Women Teaching Women in Badakhshan

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peace-process · 2020

Following the U.S.–Taliban Talks

Through analysis, interviews and contacts connected to the peace process, Shah and Rise to Peace examined prisoner releases, intra-Afghan negotiations, regional influence and what agreements would mean for people living with the consequences on the ground.

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