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 National Dialogue and peacemaking
This eight-week online course provides an in-depth understanding of National Dialogues and how to prepare, conduct and implement them. -
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 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 Building community resilience on climate and security risks in Iraq
This project fosters local capacity, addresses climate-induced mobility, and promotes collaboration to tackle environmental and security challenges in the Kurdistan Region and Federal Iraq. -
Current Project Climate-focused mediation and peacebuilding in Iraq
This project focuses on climate-focused mediation and peacebuilding in different districts throughout Iraq. -
Current Project Community peacebuilders promoting reconciliation in Hirshabelle and Galmudug States, Somalia
The project focuses on supporting and empowering local peacebuilders in their efforts to address conflict and support reconciliation in Hirshabelle and Galmudug States. -
Current Project Community safety partnerships
This project aims to contribute to sustainable peace in Yemen by strengthening community safety and inclusive infrastructures for peace. -
Current Project DesINFORMIERT!
We raise awareness among young people on TikTok about disinformation and conspiracy theories, strengthen their media literacy, and encourage their participation in democracy. -
Current Project ErinnerungsZeit
Our animated graphic novel invites young people to participate in remembrance of National Socialism. It raises awareness and encourages reflection on discrimination from the past and the present. -
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 Global Learning Hub Transitional Justice and Reconciliation
The Hub strengthens partnerships and advances the policy and practice of transitional justice through mutual learning and knowledge generation, capacity development and advice. -
Current Project Inclusive dialogue, gender sensitive peacebuilding and reconciliation in Benishangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia
The project supports local actors, particularly youth and women, and our insider peacebuilders network in strengthening community cohesion and trust through dialogue and reconciliation. -
Current Project Infrastructures for peace and environmental peacebuilding in Galmudug and Hirshabelle State, Somalia
This project focuses on the nexus between climate change and conflict in these two federal member states and is part of the Peace Pillars Consortium. -
Current Project Lebanon: Inclusive local governance and social cohesion
By bringing together government representatives, civil society and locals from 25 municipalities in Lebanon, we aim to empower communities to address local challenges. -
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 Non-state armed groups and political transformation
Together with the United Nations we work to improve support to the transformation of non-state armed groups after war. -
Current Project Peace Days
Our PeaceDays@School project days give pupils and teachers the chance to explore the topics of peace, conflict, war and violence (prevention) from different perspectives. -
Current Project 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 Radicalisation research and prevention in Germany
The MOTRA research network counters violent radicalisation through phenomenon monitoring, knowledge transfer and networking with different actors and perspectives. -
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 Strengthening enhanced climate and community resilience in Iraq
This project builds climate resilience in Iraq by combining community solutions, sustainable infrastructure, and conflict-sensitive strategies to tackle climate security risks. -
Current Project Strengthening EU external support for democracy (EMBRACE)
The cross-regional collaborative research project analyses blockages to democratisation and identifies ways to overcome them across the wider European neighbourhood. -
Current Project Strengthening inclusive local governance and peacebuilding in Yemen
The project supports mediation, local consultation, and stabilisation efforts in three Yemeni governorates and seeks to include local governance issues in the peace process. -
Current Project Supporting inclusive dialogue in Syria
The project supports different Syrian stakeholders to develop ideas and initiatives that contribute to finding peaceful and sustainable solutions to the conflict in Syria. -
Current Project Supporting multi-track dialogue in Ethiopia
The project supports Ethiopian-led and -owned dialogue efforts on multiple, interconnected tracks, including on the national and sub-national level, and with specific stakeholder groups. -
Current Project Supporting state-citizen dialogue for resilient communities in Anbar, Iraq
This project strengthens climate resilience in Anbar, Iraq, by fostering dialogue, improving climate adaptation, and integrating conflict sensitivity to address climate and conflict challenges. -
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 The role of armed and political movements in the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325
Through dialogue engagement in Myanmar and participatory action research in Yemen, the project supports women’s protection and participation in areas under the control of armed movements. -
Current Project Women mediators in peaceful protest movements
We support female insider mediators in peaceful protest movements to enhance their conflict resolution capacities. -
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. -
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: 2025 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. -
Past Project: 2021 - 2022 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. -
Past Project: 2020 - 2023 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. -
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: 2015 - 2024 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. -
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: 2023 - 2024 Digital.Truth
As part of our digital peacebuilding project, we offer workshops for parents and teachers on how to address misinformation and conspiracy theories. -
Past Project: 2022 - 2024 Fostering the meaningful inclusion of women in Ethiopian dialogue processes
The project supports Ethiopian women in their efforts to foster the meaningful participation of women in the country's dialogue processes. -
Past Project: 2022 - 2023 From female combatants to filmmakers
This project uses documentary filmmaking with female ex-combatants in Colombia and Uganda to show the various ways in which women participate in conflicts as well as their post-conflict experiences. -
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: 2025 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. -
Past Project: 2022 - 2023 Inclusive local and national-level dialogue in Lebanon
The Berghof Foundation and the European Union are cooperating with Lebanese partners in supporting a multi-level dialogue process accompanied by funding for local initiatives. -
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: 2019 - 2022 Insider Mediation for Conflict Transformation 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. -
Past Project: 2020 - 2021 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. -
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: 2025 Memory and history as a basis of social reconciliation of Armenians and Azerbaijanis
We use individual biographical narratives to stimulate reflection and discussion in the respective societies. -
Past Project: 2018 - 2021 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 - 2022 Next leaders for peace training
Through networking and mentoring, the Berghof Foundation seeks to empower the upcoming leaders of non-governmental organisations working for peace and dialogue. -
Past Project: 2018 - 2020 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. -
Past Project: 2013 - 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: 2020 - 2021 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. -
Past Project: 2020 - 2023 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. -
Past Project: 2023 - 2024 Psychology in high-level peace negotiations
This project investigates the psychological factors that shape high-level peace negotiations. -
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: 2020 - 2021 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. -
Past Project: 2021 - 2022 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. -
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. -
Past Project: 2021 - 2022 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. -
Past Project: 2019 - 2022 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. -
Past Project: 2022 - 2023 Strengthening women’s engagement in peace and security politics in Lebanon
The Berghof Foundation and UN Women are organising a two-track dialogue process for women holding high-level positions in traditional political parties and emerging political movements. -
Past Project: 2025 Supporting climate-focused local-level dialogues in Iraq
Building on climate-focused mediation and peacebuilding, the project aims to support local-level dialogue to address climate security risks in Iraq. -
Past Project: 2023 - 2024 Supporting insider mediation for sustainable transformation of conflict 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. -
Past Project: 2015 - 2021 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. -
Past Project: 2019 - 2021 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. -
Past Project: 2019 - 2021 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. -
Past Project: 2020 - 2021 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. -
Past Project: 2021 - 2022 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. -
Past Project: 2022 - 2022 Youth in dialogue about climate change and sustainable peace
We are creating virtual dialogue spaces and learning material for young people from Baden-Württemberg and from various world regions, to discuss strategies and visions for dealing with climate change.