Yemen’s accountability systems have faced long-standing challenges, further strained by years of conflict.

Video: Accountability in times of warInsights from Yemen

Watch the recording of our event to learn about Yemen’s path to stronger accountability, current reforms, and insights from regional experiences.

event 3 Sept 2025

Volunteers clean the streets and distribute food near the site of the explosion, on the 3rd day after a huge unknown blast at the port of Beirut, Lebanon on August 7, 2020.

Still struggling to give “P” a chance?Options for integrating the peace pillar into the triple nexus

Lessons from our in-country work show that there is more we can and should do to integrate peace more effectively into nexus programming.

blog post 28 Jul 2025
Author(s) Joshua Rogers

In Sierra Leone, efforts to integrate diamond smuggling networks into formal politics during the 1996 and 1999 peace agreements entrenched corruption in the country.

Bridging the divide: How peacebuilding and anti-corruption can work together

Pursued separately, peace and anti-corruption efforts can backfire. Aligning them is crucial for building just, inclusive and lasting governance.

feature 24 Jul 2025

In Guatemala, participants find strength and solidarity through shared stories.

Women shaping peace after warHow networks of former combatants are driving gender-transformative peace processes

Long after peace deals are signed, women from resistance movements continue to lead. Their networks are spaces of healing, solidarity and transformation.

feature 10 Jul 2025

In memoriam Dr Norbert Ropers

We mourn the passing of our beloved colleague, Dr Norbert Ropers, with great sadness and deep respect for his unwavering commitment.

feature 30 Jun 2025

This Friday, May 19, 2017 file photo, general view during a meeting of a delegation of Syria's main opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) with UN Special Envoy for Syria during peace talks, at the United Nations Offices in Geneva, Switzerland. Much has changed since Syria's warring sides held the last round of UN-brokered talks in Geneva in the summer: The U.N. is sidestepping the divisive question of President Bashar Assad's future, the Islamic State group has been defeated in all its strongholds, and Russia, Iran, Turkey and the U.S. have engaged in high level diplomacy that has largely frozen the lines of conflict.

Video: Psychology and peacemakingThe inner dynamics of peace negotiations

Watch the recording of our event to learn more about how psychological insights can support more effective negotiation and mediation strategies.

event 19 Jun 2025

"Globalised conflicts require mediation to evolve"Interview with our new Head of Unit Europe, Dr Christina Horváth-Stenner

Christina spoke with us about her experience in high-level negotiations, her goals for Berghof’s Europe work, and what trampoline jumping teaches us about mediation.

feature 18 Jun 2025

Video: Dynamics of peace processesBuilding on The Berlin Moot’s call for innovative approaches to mediation

Watch the recording of our event to learn more about the role of mediators, donors, location and space in shaping peace processes.

event 3 Jun 2025

Far-right groups gather in front of La Moneda presidential palace on 9 September 2023 in Santiago de Chile to celebrate the 1973 coup d'etat

The rise of far-right memory politicsHow the past is instrumentalised across the globe

A new collection of research papers and a policy brief highlight the global misuse of history by far-right actors and offer strategies to counter their influence.

feature 16 Apr 2025

Protester with placard about disinformation. On August 7, 2021, several thousand people defied the prefectural ban on demonstrating, marching in the streets of Toulouse (France). Chanting the word "Freedom", and anti-Macron slogans, the demonstrators marched on the boulevards of the city center, thus protesting against the Sanitary Pass.

Reimagining digital spaces: A peacebuilder’s take on disinformation

As digital spaces become increasingly influenced by disinformation, peacebuilders play a crucial role in shaping a more informed online (and offline) world.

blog post 3 Apr 2025
Author(s) Tessa Schindler

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