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Video: Voices of women peacebuildersCelebrating International Women’s Day 2025
Watch the recording of our event to hear the stories of women from Nigeria, Syria, and Zimbabwe who are leading peacebuilding efforts in their communities.
- event 6 Mar 2025
Empowering peaceExperts share why women improve peace outcomes for International Women’s Day
Mediators and peacebuilders stress the importance of gender equality in peace processes and how to support the next generation of peacebuilders.
- feature 7 Mar 2025
Toolkit on climate-focused mediation and dialogueInsights from Iraq
This toolkit offers insights, examples and key elements of an approach to addressing climate change related tensions and conflicts at the local level in Iraq through mediation and dialogue. Its aim is to offer both conceptual insights and practical perspectives on the topic extracted from our dialogue and mediation engagement in Iraq and from interviews with Iraqi dialogue facilitators and mediators. This toolkit was created as part of a cooperation project with the purpose of Strengthening Iraqi Capacities to Respond to Climate Risks and their Impact on Existing Conflict Dynamics. This project, implemented by the Berghof Foundation and Peace Paradigms Organisation (PPO) with support from the German Federal Foreign Office, is part of the Weathering Risk Peace Pillar led by adelphi.
- Collection 2 items
Public consultations for peace in Southern Thailand
The project contributes to the peace process between the Thai government and the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) by supporting locally-led consultations on the conflict, complementing formal dialogue.
- Current Project
Celebrating ten years of peacebuilding and conflict transformation in Somalia
Since 2015, we have worked with community members and government actors to strengthen their capacity to facilitate dialogue and foster reconciliation in Somalia.
- feature 28 Mar 2025
Chris Coulter appointed Berghof’s Executive Director
Chris Coulter has been appointed the Berghof Foundation's new Executive Director after serving for an interim period.
- press release 27 Mar 2025
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
Rewriting history, undermining democracyThe role of the New Right in South Korean memory politics
This case study examines the evolution of the South Korean New Right over the past two decades in its revisionist assaults on mainstream historiography and the country’s consolidating transitional justice paradigm. Analysing the most salient areas of contention, the author finds that far-right memory politics in South Korea represents a calculated effort to distort national memory for political ends, posing serious risks to the country’s democratic integrity.
- Year 2025
- Author(s) Hannes B. Mosler
Between nostalgia and apocalypseWhite nationalist remembrance of the past and fear of the future in post-apartheid South Africa
This case study explores mobilisations framed around remembrance in white nationalist movements in post-apartheid South Africa, with a particular focus on the AfriForum. The authors draw on the concepts of restorative nostalgia and apocalyptic anticipation to analyse how the opposition to policies aimed at redressing past inequalities related to colonialism and apartheid often relies on racial stereotypes, fear, and, at times, hatred.
- Year 2025
- Author(s) Malose Langa, Peace Kiguwa
Glorification, whitewashing, erasureThe populist challenge to dealing with the past in Lithuania
This case study explores the populist instrumentalisation of history in Lithuania since 2014, the year Russia invaded Ukraine. The author documents how far-right and populist actors in Lithuania increasingly turn to the experience of the Second World War and its aftermath to propagate simplistic narratives that rely on antisemitic tropes, whitewash historical crimes, and turn victims into villains and perpetrators into victims, with the ostensible aim of strengthening patriotic sentiment.
- Year 2025
- Author(s) Violeta Davoliūtė