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.
Timeframe: 2016 - ongoing
Our efforts in Afghanistan aim to support Afghan stakeholders in establishing sustainable and resilient peace by strengthening their individual and collective capacity to design and implement nonviolent conflict transformation as a self-owned and self-led process.
The work focuses on six objectives, namely:
- Supporting the most-needed capacities and a framework for sustainable peace by providing expertise in a range of areas, as well as through dialogue and mediation support;
- Contributing to make the political process more inclusive and in turn more sustainable;
- Contributing to the establishment of local peacebuilding mechanisms as well as locally-driven development initiatives in order to address drivers of conflict;
- Supporting the establishment of constructive dialogue between key Afghan stakeholders and relevant peers in the region;
- Supporting genuine conciliation across a range of existing cleavages (violent and non-violent conflicts) through the facilitation of dialogue and conciliation processes as well as approaches to dealing with the past;
- Contribute to the process of building legitimate and durable infrastructures for peace.
Most recent media appearance:
Theresa Breitmaier on German public television Tagesschau
Updates from this work:
- Zur Situation in Afghanistan: Dialog ist der einzige Weg aus der Krise 13 Apr 2022
- Dialogue is the only way out of the crisis in Afghanistan 13 Apr 2022
- Germany’s longest military mission ends 21 Jun 2021
- Climate and conflict as a vicious cycle: The case of Afghanistan 11 May 2021
- Latest developments in the Afghan peace process: A commentary 21 Dec 2020
- Die aktuellen Entwicklungen der Intra-Afghanischen Friedensverhandlungen: Ein Kommentar 21 Dec 2020
- Berghof welcomes Afghan breakthrough agreement 2 Dec 2020
- Attention turns to intra-Afghan talks following news of U.S.-Taliban deal 3 Mar 2020
- Thoughts on the anniversary of the start of the Second World War 4 Sept 2019
- Intra-Afghan Conference for Peace signals hope for the people of Afghanistan 23 Jul 2019
- Thoughts on Ramadan 2019 – Will there soon be peace in Afghanistan? 15 May 2019
- New publication on conflict resolution in Afghanistan 15 Jan 2019
Project lead
Basir Feda
Head of Unit
b.feda@berghof-foundation.org
Team members
Theresa Breitmaier
Hans-Joachim Giessmann
Omaidullah Stanikzai
Janina Gäde
Homyra Rahnoma
Shahir Amin
Jenny Stock
Charlotte Hamm
Media contact
You can reach the press team at:
+49 (0) 177 7052758
press@berghof-foundation.org