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Berghof Foundation Annual Report 2025Online year in review
Our 2025 annual report gives an overview of our work around the world during the year as well as insights into our finances and funding.
- Year 2026
The Refugee Convention at 75: time to address climate-conflict displacement
Eighty-three million internally displaced persons fall outside the world's main binding protection treaty. Climate change is adding millions more.
- blog post 28 Jul 2026
- Author(s) Laís Clemente Pereira, Alexandra Steinkraus, Nike Löble
Perspectives for a renewed social contract in Lebanon
Lebanon has faced a succession of overlapping crises—including the 2019 financial collapse, the Beirut port explosion, institutional paralysis, recurring Israeli aggressions, and ongoing political and regional instability—that have profoundly reshaped state–citizen relations and intensified long-standing governance challenges. Against this backdrop, Westminster Foundation for Democracy, and the Berghof Foundation conducted research from March–December 2025 to examine how diverse groups of Lebanese citizens understand the current social contract, their priorities for a renewed and inclusive one, and the barriers and opportunities for achieving it.
- Year 2026
- Author(s) Lara Azzam, Mohammad Al Mishlawi, Jana Sleem
آفاق تجدید العقد الاجتماعي في لبنان
واجه لبنان سلسلة من الأزمات المتداخلة، بما في ذلك الانهيار المالي عام 2019، وانفجار مرفأ بيروت، والشلل المؤسسي، والاعتداءات الإسرائيلية المتكررة، وعدم الاستقرار السياسي والإقليمي المستمر، والتي أعادت تشكيل العلاقات بين الدولة والمواطنين بشكل جذري، وزادت من حدة تحديات الحوكمة المزمنة. في هذا السياق، أجرت مؤسسة وستمنستر للديمقراطية ومؤسسة بيرغوف بحثًا خلال الفترة من مارس إلى ديسمبر 2025 لدراسة كيفية فهم فئات متنوعة من المواطنين اللبنانيين للعقد الاجتماعي الحالي، وأولوياتهم لعقد متجدد وشامل، والعوائق والفرص المتاحة لتحقيقه.
- Year 2026
- Author(s) Lara Azzam, Mohammad Al Mishlawi, Jana Sleem
From Maputo to the mountainBuilding peace in Mozambique
This book details the journey of the Maputo Accord. Written by Mirko Manzoni and Neha Sanghrajka, who supported and facilitated the mediation and negotiation of the Accord, it traces step-by-step the painstaking efforts to build trust and confidence in often challenging circumstances, drawing on the authors’ own recollections of the mediation and subsequent efforts to implement the Accord. Insights from the mediators and others closely associated with the process bring to life Mozambique’s unique journey towards peace and reconciliation and the courage, perseverance and innovation of everyone involved.
- Year 2026
- Author(s) Mirko Manzoni, Neha Sanghrajka
A Sustained Dialogue process brings communities together in Somalia
Through a Sustained Dialogue process, we brought together communities in Somalia that had been divided by violent conflict.
- Impact
