Our Projects
Through advice, support, learning and research, the Berghof Foundation's programming enables conflict transformation and promotes peace around the world.
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Course Advanced peace mediation
This course is a five-day intensive programme, designed for experienced mediators who work at Track 1-1.5 levels. -
Course Transformative peace education
This online course provides theoretical basics informed by current issues as well as insights into proven methods from the Berghof Foundation’s peace education practice in Germany and abroad. -
Current Project #vrschwrng
The model project aims to give young people the opportunity to have a critical look at conspiracy theories and their underlying narratives. -
Current Project A network for faith-based mediators
The project accompanies and builds the capacity of a group of nine faith-based mediators through exchanges and peer-to-peer learning. -
Current Project Afghanistan: Support to resilient and sustainable peace
The overall goal of Berghof Foundation’s work in this region is to support Afghan-driven efforts to resolve the protracted conflict and to achieve resilient and sustainable peace. -
Current Project Climate Security in Somalia
This project focuses on sensitising vulnerable communities to the adverse impact of climate change on peace and security in Beledweyne District. -
Current Project Community resilience to violent extremism
The comparative research project examines root causes and driving factors of violent extremism in local communities across seven countries in the MENA and Balkans. -
Current Project Creating spaces for transformative dialogues in Turkey
The project brings together like-minded people across sectors and provides the space and the tools for meaningful exchanges on regional dynamics and democratisation in Turkey. -
Current Project Frieden-fragen.de
Frieden-fragen.de is an online portal for children covering issues of war and peace, conflicts and violence. -
Current Project History dialogue in Georgian-Abkhazian conflict
We support our partners in overcoming the 'silence on history' that characterises many interactions across conflict lines and acknowledge the grievances caused by violence and injustice on all sides. -
Current Project Insider mediation in Zimbabwe
This project aims to contribute to national efforts for peace and stability in Zimbabwe through the strengthening of local and national capacities for conflict transformation. -
Current Project Intergenerational dialogues on fighting for justice and peace
Through participatory research and training, this project fosters intergenerational dialogue between youth and former combatants on peacebuilding and justice in Mindanao, Philippines. -
Current Project Memory and history dialogue in Azerbaijan and Karabakh
We use individual biographical narratives to stimulate reflection and discussion in the respective societies. -
Current Project Negotiation support to RLMs
This project aims to support peace negotiation processes by enhancing Resistance and Liberation Movements’ (RLMs) negotiation capacities through training, peer-to-peer learning, and process support. -
Current Project Nexus of peacemaking and constitution building
The project examines the intersection of peacemaking – with a focus on mediation – and constitution making, and aims to strengthen cooperation between the two fields. -
Current Project Non-state armed groups and political transformation
Together with the United Nations we work to improve international support to the transformation of non-state armed groups after war. -
Current Project Peace education meets religion
This project aims to strengthen the peace education skills and competencies of religious or religiously motivated multipliers working in the formal and non-formal education sector. -
Current Project Promoting reconciliation in Hirshabelle State, Somalia
The project focuses on supporting and empowering local peacebuilders in their efforts to address conflict and support reconciliation in Hirshabelle State. -
Current Project Radicalisation research and prevention in Germany
The research project MOTRA tackles the issue of radicalisation in Germany based on evidence-based knowledge and cross-sectoral dissemination and networking. -
Current Project Security doctrines in a changing world
The project aims to foster global South-North exchange and to better reflect global South perspectives in International Relations theory, by providing insights into modes of South-South cooperation. -
Current Project Service Centre Peace Education
The project offers learning media, teacher trainings and activities at schools to strengthen peace education at schools in Baden-Württemberg. -
Current Project Somalia: I4P and inclusive dialogue in Galmudug State
The project seeks to support Infrastructures for Peace (I4P) and raise awareness on the nexus between climate change and conflict. -
Current Project StArt Peace Education!
The project compiles the latest findings on peace education in German-speaking countries in a state-of-the-art report and podcast and formulates recommendations for policy and educational practice. -
Current Project Strengthening community safety in Yemen
This project aims to strengthen the safety of communities in Yemen through local dialogue. -
Current Project Strengthening the Ethiopian transition and reform process
The project supports a multipartial group of influential Ethiopian insiders from across the political and civic spectrum in their efforts to foster inclusive dialogue on multiple tracks in Ethiopia. -
Current Project Supporting local dialogue and faith-based insider mediators
Local religious leaders and scholars play an active role in addressing root causes of radicalisation, promoting religious tolerance, and supporting peaceful coexistence on a local and national level. -
Current Project Supporting local peace structures in Ethiopia
Working closely with the GIZ and national partners, the project aims to strengthen Local Peace Committees in Benishangul-Gumuz in Ethiopia. -
Current Project Supporting peaceful settlements in Syria
The project supports a diverse group of independent Syrians in developing conflict resolution options and provides space for dialogue with external powers. -
Current Project Supporting social media influencers in Lebanon
This project supports social media influencers to de-escalate social and political tensions and to engage in a dialogue to develop options for a new national vision in Lebanon. -
Current Project Supporting women in RLMs in peace processes and transitions
Through capacity building, this project supports women in resistance and liberation movements to enhance their peace negotiation skills and opportunities for post-war democratic leadership. -
Current Project Trust-building in Security and Rule of Law partnerships
With this research project, we aim to contribute to the development of a research agenda on the state of trust and trust-building in SRoL partnerships. -
Current Project 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. -
Current Project Yemen: Strengthening inclusive local governance
The project supports mediation, local consultation, and dialogue in four Yemeni governorates and seeks to include local governance issues in the peace process. -
Overview Our courses and trainings
We offer innovative courses and trainings where interested practitioners can draw on our long experience and technical expertise in international conflict settings. -
Overview Our work in Asia
We support inclusive dialogue and transitions that allow peaceful engagement in politics. -
Overview Our work in Europe
Our activities across an ever-changing Europe range from encouraging dialogue to promoting peace through education, to researching radicalisation in and beyond the region. -
Overview Our work in Latin America
We provide tailor-made and hands-on support, particularly in the fields of dialogue with multiple actors and on different levels, as well as process facilitation and joint learning. -
Overview Our work in Sub-Saharan Africa
We support various types of dialogue spanning high-level political dialogue, civil-society forums, and grass-roots dialogue initiatives. -
Overview Our work in the Middle East and North Africa
Our projects aim at supporting actors and institutions as well as efforts to overcome political and societal divisions through inclusive dialogue processes and consensus-building. -
Past Project: 2017 - 2019 Conflict resolution with Salafi-jihadi groups
The research project examined (de-)escalation trajectories of Salafi-jihadi armed groups and explored options and challenges for conflict resolution. -
Past Project: 2017 - 2019 Culture of conflict 3.0
Using innovative methods, the project strengthens the media and information competence of young people and supports the development of skills, which enable them to critically consume media. -
Past Project: 2018 - 2020 From female combatants to post-war democratic leaders
Using filmmaking as an accessible and evocative research method, female ex-combatants document how they experience reintegration, post-war development and leadership. -
Past Project: 2019 - 2020 Incremental inclusivity in peace process design
This project analyses the incremental inclusion of non-state armed groups and societal actors during different stages of a peace process. -
Past Project: 2020 - 2021 Mediation and conflict resolution course
With the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (FES) in Afghanistan, we offer a four-month online programme for 30 next-generation Afghan young leaders. -
Past Project: 2022 Memory and history for social conciliation in Bosnia
Through the discussion of individual memories about the conflict escalation we are laying the ground for a deep and empathetic conciliation process between the different ethnic sections within Bosnia. -
Past Project: 2022 - 2020 Peace Counts
Peace Counts is a unique combination of peace education and peace journalism. It began as an initiative of journalists who travelled to 30+ conflict regions to report about individuals making peace. -
Past Project: 2015 - 2020 Regional peacebuilding in Colombia
Our work accompanied Colombian actors in developing and implementing conflict transformation and peace efforts on different levels, and shares the lessons learnt in order to improve national policies. -
Past Project: 2019 - 2020 Rural policing in southern Mexico
This project explores alternative forms of security provision in rural areas of southern Mexico that emerged as responses to criminal violence and the failure of the state to defend its citizens. -
Past Project: 2017 - 2020 Safety nets against Sunni-Shia polarisation in Lebanon
This project aims to create forums and to establish safety nets which contribute to bridging divides and addressing mutual concerns and fears. -
Past Project: 2019 - 2020 Somalia: Supporting the stabilisation of Galmudug State
The project seeks to support the stabilisation of Galmudug through a multi-track approach to dialogue, which supports the cohesion of Galmudug society.