blog post | 20 Dec 2022 Divided or united?

Our consultant Mariia Levchenko interviewed civil society activists across Ukraine on the impact of war on Ukrainian national identity.

Mariia Levchenko
blog post | 26 Jan 2023 Exploring religion as a force for conflict transformation

Nura Detweiler
feature | 28 Dec 2022 Transformation through art
blog post | 14 Dec 2022 If people don’t feel safe, how can they play an active role in negotiating peace?

Véronique Dudouet
feature | 22 Dec 2022 Violent extremism cannot be countered by governments alone

The Berghof Approach

While conflict is inevitable, violence is not. We bring people in conflict together, creating space for conflict transformation.

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What is conflict transformation?

Learn about conflict transformation and other key themes in our work.

Project Highlight Afghanistan: Support to resilient and sustainable peace

The overall goal of Berghof Foundation’s work in this region is to support Afghan-driven efforts to resolve the protracted conflict and to achieve resilient and sustainable peace.
Project Highlight Yemen: Strengthening inclusive local governance

The project supports mediation, local consultation, and dialogue in four Yemeni governorates and seeks to include local governance issues in the peace process.
Course Transformative peace education

This online course provides theoretical basics informed by current issues as well as insights into proven methods from the Berghof Foundation’s peace education practice in Germany and abroad.

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Impact Engaging youth for peace in Germany

We run projects that enable young people to recognise peace and nonviolence as important values in their lives.
Impact From fighting fires to weathering food crises: Community safety makes an impact in Yemen

Together with our Yemeni partners, we work in five cities to improve the local communities' abilities to provide a safe environment for their citizens.

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. German Federal Foreign Office German Federal Foreign Office

More about our work in Yemen