organization · 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.
The story
What happened—and what it changed.
Rise to Peace began as a practical answer to a personal question: how can people affected by violence gain the knowledge, relationships and responsibility needed to confront it without reproducing it?