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The overall goal of Berghof Foundation’s infrastructures for peace programme in Iraq, Yemen, and Somalia is to strengthen conflict transformation mechanisms.

• Current Project

This research explores intergenerational perspectives on Lebanon’s social contract, aiming to shape inclusive reforms grounded in trust, participation, and shared civic aspirations.

• Current Project

This report examines the current climate finance landscape in Afghanistan, analysing funding trends before and after 2021 and identifying entry points for action under current political constraints.

It explores how political constraints and institutional gaps have reshaped access, delivery, and co-financing dynamics, while identifying emerging models for indirect implementation through UN agencies, NGOs, and regional mechanisms. Comparative case studies from Haiti, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo illustrate how other fragile states have mobilised climate finance amidst instability.

• Year 2025
• Author(s) Dima Reda

Vor dem Hintergrund eines wieder erstarkten Fluchtaufkommens, von kommunalen Überlastungsanzeigen und Debatten um Zuzugsbegrenzungen kam es in 2023 wieder verstärkt zu Protesten gegen die Unterbringung von Geflüchteten. Basierend auf einer bundesweiten Expert*innenbefragung skizziert der Beitrag dieses Protestgeschehen und zeigt regionale Unterschiede sowie Kontinuitäten und Veränderungen seit der Protestwelle in den Jahren 2016 und 2017 auf.

• Year 2025
• Author(s) Michaela Glaser

The Primer explains the importance of informal political spaces in achieving long-term peace. These arenas are often the most immediate and accessible venues where marginalised groups or lower-level fighters -- including women and young people -- can express their views, develop leadership skills, and take action, especially when formal institutions are inaccessible, exclusive, or no longer trusted. Acknowledging and supporting these peaceful forms of organisation allows DDR and peacebuilding actors to enable ex-combatants to pursue social change without violence, resolve grievances constructively, and rebuild confidence between them and the wider community.

• Year 2025

This Primer provides guidance for DDR practitioners, peacebuilding stakeholders, and international partners on how to sequence DDR efforts alongside political transformation in ways that align and ideally strengthen one another. Using insights from cases like Nepal, Liberia, Northern Ireland, the Philippines, and Colombia, it examines how different sequencing choices affect the relationship between security and political inclusion in post-conflict settings. The document presents conceptual frameworks, comparative case examples and practical principles to help develop more coordinated and context-sensitive strategies.

• Year 2025

The Abyan governorate in southern Yemen faces growing environmental pressures that have become key drivers of local conflict. Water scarcity, land degradation and extreme weather events are intensifying social tensions in a region already affected by war and weak governance. This study examines how environmental stressors contribute to disputes and connect to displacement, livelihood loss and declining social cohesion. It also highlights the roles of tribal customs, religious authorities, local governance and community initiatives in mediating resource-related conflicts and identifies opportunities for local stakeholders and international donors to strengthen environmental management and support conflict-mediation efforts in Abyan.

• Year 2025
• Author(s) Summer Nasser

تواجه محافظة أبين في جنوب اليمن ضغوطًا بيئية متزايدة أصبحت من المحرّكات الأساسية للصراع المحلي. فندرة المياه وتدهور الأراضي والظواهر المناخية المتطرفة تؤدي إلى تفاقم التوترات الاجتماعية في منطقة متأثرة أصلًا بالحرب وضعف الحوكمة. وتبحث هذه الدراسة في كيفية مساهمة الضغوط البيئية في تأجيج النزاعات وارتباطها بالنزوح وفقدان سبل العيش وتراجع التماسك الاجتماعي. كما تبرز الدراسة أدوار الأعراف القبلية والسلطات الدينية والحكم المحلي والمبادرات المجتمعية في التوسط في النزاعات المرتبطة بالموارد، وتحدّد فرصًا لأصحاب المصلحة المحليين والجهات المانحة الدولية لتعزيز إدارة البيئة ودعم جهود الوساطة في النزاعات في أبين.

• Year 2025
• Author(s) Summer Nasser

How can women’s roles in mediation be truly meaningful? Read why peace processes must be locally grounded and attentive to gender-specific realities.

• blog post 17 Dec 2025
• Author(s) Carla Schraml

From dispute to shared responsibility, community dialogues are helping Iraqi villages manage water scarcity and build trust for a more resilient future.

• Impact