Creating New Ground for Understanding
New Ground Research bridges global divides through expert analyses, collaborative action, and developing groundbreaking initiatives..
WHO WE ARE
New Ground Research is an independent non-profit foundation and think tank operating from Granada, Spain, with an advisory office in Doha, Qatar.
Its flagship multi-year initiative aims to counter Islamophobia and antisemitism through a collaborative framework driven by diverse experts and insights. Additionally, New Ground illuminates historical and contemporary Mediterranean exchanges across trade, architecture, art, and knowledge transfer. The foundation also delivers expert geopolitical and geoeconomic analysis to clarify dynamic political and security trajectories across the Middle East and GCC.
INITIATIVES
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Global Initiative to Counter Islamophobia & Antisemitism (GIIA)
GIIA is a pioneering project that has evolved over several years to develop an international approach for addressing the roots of these twin forms of racism and their contemporary manifestations.
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Next Middle East Initiative (NMI)
The initiative focuses on how shifting power balances and domestic dynamics across key Middle East actors shape emerging security arrangements and the evolving role of external powers, offering policy-relevant insights for de-escalation, dialogue, and regional confidence-building.
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Mediterranean Intercultural Narrative Advancement (MEDINA)
The MEDINA Initiative aims to enhance dialogue by reimagining the Mediterranean Sea not as a dividing border but as a shared space of complex historical, political, cultural, economic, and intellectual exchange between its shores.
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CROSSROADS Research (CRR)
Crossroad Research provides independent analysis at the intersection of Middle Eastern geoeconomics, geopolitics, and global climate politics, exploring how these regional dynamics both shape and are influenced by broader global trends, international power relations, and transnational challenges.
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