blog post | 5 Jun 2026 Treat water as an essential strategic resource in the Middle East

Water is not only an environmental issue, it's central to security. Learn how to de-risk water in the Gulf.

Nazanine Moshiri, Dr Beatrice Mosello
event | 13 May 2026 Video: Dealing or healing?
blog post | 21 May 2026 Lessons on climate, environment, peace, and security

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event | 30 Apr 2026 Video: Restoring local service provision in Yemen
blog post | 18 Mar 2026 Political integration still matters

Véronique Dudouet, Johanna-Maria Hülzer, Gyda Sindre, Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs

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 Yemen Political Dialogue Support Programme

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.
Project Highlight Digital.Truth

As part of our digital peacebuilding project, we offer workshops for parents and teachers on how to address misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Course National Dialogue and peacemaking

This seven-week online course provides an in-depth understanding of National Dialogues and how to prepare, conduct and implement them.

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Impact Healing grievances across generations after the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict

We organise workshops where people share their experiences and listen to stories from "the other side" to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma.
Impact How communities are building climate resilience through shared water governance in Balad, Iraq

Faced with growing water scarcity and rising tensions, farmers, tribal leaders, community representatives, and local authorities came together to create Iraq’s largest Water Users Association.

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

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