As Lebanon was grappling with a multifaceted crisis that began rocking the boat of stability, UMAM D&R launched an initiative titled "Successive Ends of an Ongoing Conflict: Revisiting the Many Efforts to End Lebanon's ‘Civil War'" in August 2015. Between the buildup of garbage in streets around the country, an influx of Syrian refugees, and a protracted presidential vacancy, there was a heightened need to understand the various aspects of Lebanon's strained history.

To adequately revisit the past, a thorough research campaign began under the title "Peace Upon You" with a focus on obtaining historical documents and uploading them onto the Memory at Work website. The structure of the research project was relatively broad so as to allow for further development and expansion, leaving open the possibility that unique findings could branch off into previously unimagined avenues.

As Lebanon was grappling with a multifaceted crisis that began rocking the boat of stability, UMAM D&R launched an initiative titled "Successive Ends of an Ongoing Conflict: Revisiting the Many Efforts to End Lebanon's ‘Civil War'" in August 2015. Between the buildup of garbage in streets around the country, an influx of Syrian refugees, and a protracted presidential vacancy, there was a heightened need to understand the various aspects of Lebanon's strained history.

To adequately revisit the past, a thorough research campaign began under the title "Peace Upon You" with a focus on obtaining historical documents and uploading them onto the Memory at Work website. The structure of the research project was relatively broad so as to allow for further development and expansion, leaving open the possibility that unique findings could branch off into previously unimagined avenues.

Nonetheless, there were some parameters that guided the efforts of UMAM D&R’s research team, including: a review of "cease-fire agreements;" domestic and local initiatives to end the civil war fighting; regional, international, and non-Arab initiatives that tried to close out the war; the "dialogue tables" that were designed to attract Lebanese stakeholders; and documents related to the war and its termination, produced by either political parties or through comprehensive agreements. Moreover, the UMAM D&R archival collection increased with written documents and audio material from local radio and television political talk shoes examining the 2005-2008 period in Lebanon's contemporary history. All told, the Peace Upon You section of Memory at Work ended up with thousands of documents.

While documentation and research serve as the engines of UMAM D&R's work, advocacy and outreach play an integral role as well. After all, the organization's vast collection of material related to Lebanon's history cannot contribute to a greater public understanding of the past if the public is not engaging with these newspapers and articles, books and magazines, and audio-visual material.

Hence, a number of working sessions were held around Lebanon with a mixed array of participants that reflected Lebanon’s diversity. In January 2016, two meetings were held with high-ranking members from Lebanon's social, political, and religious realms. Topics of discussion ranged from the disparity between the dynamics of decision-making at the government's executive level and relations between Lebanon’s various groups and communities, to the sectarian mobilization within the Lebanese parties as part of the general political mobilization. Later in 2016, five working sessions were held at universities around the country in an attempt to discuss elements of Lebanon's past with a demographic that lives with the effects of the war despite not actually living during the war.

A dual Arabic-English booklet titled "Peace Upon You," which discussed some of the research themes of the project, streamlined the facilitation of these sessions. The results of the "Peace Upon You" research campaign into political initiatives and the myriad attempts to close the civil war chapter in Lebanon's history were compiled into a lengthy Arabic publication. Finally, a capstone conference for the research campaign was held on October 22, 2016.