The Berghof Approach
While conflict is inevitable, violence is not. We bring people in conflict together, creating space for conflict transformation.
Watch our Executive Director Chris Coulter at the Munich Security Conference!
Watch our Executive Director at #MSC2026!
As leaders gather in Munich amid record defence budgets, Chris Coulter argues that lasting security depends on the patient work of conflict prevention and mediation.
Chris Coulter
Jana Sleem
Carla Schraml
While conflict is inevitable, violence is not. We bring people in conflict together, creating space for conflict transformation.
Learn about conflict transformation and other key themes in our work.
The PDSP supports Yemeni and international efforts for a political solution that provides the basis to end the war, to resume an inclusive political dialogue, and to relaunch the political transition.
As part of our digital peacebuilding project, we offer workshops for parents and teachers on how to address misinformation and conspiracy theories.
This eight-week online course provides an in-depth understanding of National Dialogues and how to prepare, conduct and implement them.
Our radio programme in Somalia fosters community dialogue around climate change and conflict.
We organise workshops where people share their experiences and listen to stories from "the other side" to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma.
The Berghof Foundation is one of the world’s few organisations to entertain high-level channels of communication with all parties to the conflict in Yemen. The Berghof Foundation is one of the world’s few organisations to entertain high-level channels of communication with all parties to the conflict in Yemen.
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