ABSTRACT
The mission of Search for Common Ground, the organization which the author founded in 1982 and still head, is to transform the way the world deals with conflict from adversarial, win–lose approaches to nonadversarial, win–win solutions. Since 2006, the organization have capitalized on the global passion for soccer to produce a dramatic TV and radio series, called The Team, in seventeen African, Middle Eastern, and Asian countries. The organisation formed a partnership with the Congolese Army to implement a series of activities whose aim is to reduce and eliminate the occurrence of sexual violence. The organisation's US–Iran Working Group, founded in 1996, provides a prime example of how they combine discreet, long-term Track Two work with open, people-to-people projects. The establishment of "The Radio Partnership for Peace," the first of its kind in Asia, was announced by the largest summit ever of FM radio stations in Pakistan's history held in Islamabad over the weekend The Nation.
