Community Development and Conflict Management

Community engagement activities will be developed through partnerships with relevant stakeholders across South Asian countries and within the refugee and South Asian diaspora in the United States.

Community engagement activities will be developed through partnerships with relevant stakeholders across South Asian countries and within the refugee and South Asian diaspora in the United States.

The programme connects SAFI’s research directly to the populations it concerns — youth, vulnerable groups, refugees, immigrants, and practitioners — and treats their assessment of a problem as evidence in its own right, not as an afterthought to expert analysis.

Conflict management work focuses on the practical: mapping local mediation capacity, documenting what has worked, and creating channels through which community-level findings reach the officials whose decisions shape them.

What this program produces

• Partnerships with community organisations across the region
• Diaspora and refugee engagement programmes in the United States
• Internships and professional development for students
• Conflict management research grounded in local practice

To inform, engage, and equip policymakers in South Asia by addressing gaps in foreign and public policy through analysis, opinion research, and foster informed public discourse, focused on locally driven solutions and free from any regional dominance.

Who this program is for

SAFI’s targeted groups include, but are not limited to, youth, scholars, students, experts, academics, vulnerable populations, refugees, immigrants, and practitioners. Outputs from this program are written to be useful to each of them — not only to specialists.