TRENDS Global promotes peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and psychosocial health. Through community dialogues and collaborative initiatives, we facilitate local solutions to local challenges, fostering sustainable peace and development.
TRENDS Global is a non-profit organization working at the intersection of research, design, and community action. We partner with international agencies and local leaders to design conflict management systems that reflect the realities of each society.
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Projects built with communities, not for them.
Evidence-Based Solutions
Experience across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
Evidence-based insights drive our peacebuilding strategies and interventions.
Collaborative spaces where innovation meets local wisdom to develop practical solutions.
Equipping communities and leaders with skills through simulations, workshops, and curriculum design.
Measuring the effectiveness, efficiency, and long-term impact of peacebuilding initiatives.
In post-war Liberia, the HOPE Program strengthened community resilience and helped individuals overcome trauma. Through locally designed dialogue sessions, people found common ground, built hope, and began creating a shared vision for a better future.
Our Adaptive Peacebuilding Project in Afghanistan brought communities together to resolve local conflicts through open dialogue. The initiative created safe spaces for discussion, allowing participants to share grievances and collaboratively develop reconciliation roadmaps.
"TRENDS Global helped us see what the world can be. Volker and his team came to Ghana and shared their wisdom with our people and helped us move forward."
"TRENDS Global helped us see what the world can be. Volker and his team came to Ghana and shared their wisdom with our people and helped us move forward."
"TRENDS Global helped us see what the world can be. Volker and his team came to Ghana and shared their wisdom with our people and helped us move forward."forward."
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Strategy & Operations
Research Associate
Law & Human Rights
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Evaluation Lead
Solution Labs
Executive Director
Partner with TRENDS Global to co-create programs that promote peace and resilience. Whether you’re a policymaker, researcher, or community leader — your collaboration can create change.
