For both 2017 and 2018, it has been the privilege of the Vignette and its team of storytellers to travel around the globe highlighting the leading peacebuilders who work with Search for Common Ground, an international NGO that works with communities around the world to build sustainable peace.
The following are a selection of some of the videos that were promoted online and also at their annual awards ceremonies.
The photos were used at Search’s gala event and throughout the year for their campaigns and annual reports.
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- Fatima Ezzahrae Benoughazi, 22, teaches as she volunteers at a program for underprivileged youth, in Tangier, Morocco, September 17, 2017. (Photo credit/Tara Todras-Whitehill for Vignette Interactive/Search for Common Ground)
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- Maryam teaches a class on the Koran at a Madrasa in her neighborhood in Jos, Northern Nigeria, June 19, 2018. (Photo credit/Tara Todras-Whitehill for Search For Common Ground)
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- Maryam, a Muslim, left, leans on her friend Mercy, a Christian, at a peace rally near Maryam’s house in Jos, Northern Nigeria, June 19, 2018. Maryam and Mercy became friends at a program that was held by Search For Common Ground on peace building between Christians and Muslims. (Photo credit/Tara Todras-Whitehill for Search For Common Ground)
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- Abdulrahaman, a Muslim, center right, leads a workshop on peace building as his friend Zima, a Christian, listens, inside a mosque in Jos, Northern Nigeria, June 20, 2018. Abdulraham and Zima became friends at a program that was held by Search For Common Ground on peace building between Christians and Muslims. (Photo credit/Tara Todras-Whitehill for Search For Common Ground)
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- Journalist Michael Sambula interviews Valnora Edwin, the Executive director of the Campaign for Good Governance, Thursday, April 19, Freetown, Sierra Leone. (Photo credit/Tara Todras-Whitehill for Search For Common Ground).
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- Abdulrahaman, a Muslim, left, and his friend Zima, a Christian, pose for a photo inside a mosque in Jos, Northern Nigeria, June 20, 2018. Abdulraham and Zima became friends at a program that was held by Search For Common Ground on peace building between Christians and Muslims. (Photo credit/Tara Todras-Whitehill for Search For Common Ground)
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- Fatima Ezzahrae Benoughazi, 22, plays as she volunteers at a program for underprivileged youth, in Tangier, Morocco, September 17, 2017. (Photo credit/Tara Todras-Whitehill for Vignette Interactive/Search for Common Ground)
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- Mudenge hosts a football game between Rwandan and Congolese youth on September 24th, 2017 near his home in Rwerere, Rwanda. Speakers take turns giving testimony about the genocide before the match. Boniface Mudenge is a mediator and peace-builder. As Founder of Inyenyeri Itazima Association, Boniface survived the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, and over the following two decades he risked his life to advocate for peace and justice among Hutus and Tutsis.
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- Sylvie Mutwambaka Mirindi and the Mamans Sensibilisateurs have their weekly meeting at a members house on September 28th, 2017 in Walungu in South Kivu- Democratic Republic of Congo. Sylvie Mutwambaka Mirindi is the Founder of Mamans Sensibilisateurs, a committee made up of women who, like Sylvie, are married to members of the Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC). These women both witness and face violence in their homes and community. Among other programs, Sylvie and the Mamans Sensibilisateurs launched programs that have dramatically reduced violence in their homes and communities, as well as a co-counseling system for married couples to discuss their problems constructively without violence.
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- Idrissa Sani Malam, 38, a taxi driver who also works with the local gangs to encourage young members to leave and seek employment and a safer way of living and supporting their families, poses for a photo with one of his children in front of his house, in Zinder, Niger, October 11, 2018. (Photo credit/Monique Jaques for Search For Common Ground)
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- Oussema Hakiri, is seen hosting his radio program at Express FM, in Tunis, Tunisia, December 7, 2018. (Photo credit/Tara Todras-Whitehill for Search for Common Ground)
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- Souhaib Hakiri, poses for a photo before rehearsing a play at a theater, in Beja, Tunisia, December 8, 2018. (Photo credit/Tara Todras-Whitehill for Search for Common Ground)