Search for Common Ground (Search) is implementing the “Religious Roundtable” project that aims to promote religious tolerance and human rights in the Middle East and South and Central Asia regions through the inclusive, collaborative, and sustainable engagement of diverse religious actors. The 36-month project, closing in 2023, targets key stakeholders through religious coexistence and tolerance in Lebanon, in addition to engaging online and social media audiences through collective advocacy campaigns.
The project’s overall goal in Lebanon is to promote religious freedom through the inclusive, collaborative, and sustainable engagement of diverse religious actors. Search’s Global Religious Engagement unit leverages Search’s Common Ground Approach to Religious Engagement to convene roundtables of religious actors, civil society, governmental stakeholders, and other key leaders to recognize their shared concerns and priorities to strengthen religious freedom in Lebanon. As a locally rooted, neutral, and faith-literate but not a faith-based organization, Search is implementing a program that enables a diverse coalition to develop working relationships and launch joint advocacy projects in some of the world’s most complex and sensitive contexts including Lebanon.
