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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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-focused mediation and peacebuilding in Iraq
This project focuses on climate-focused mediation and peacebuilding in different districts throughout Iraq. -
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 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 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. -
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 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 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. -
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 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 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. -
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 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 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 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 Strengthening community safety in Yemen
This project aims to strengthen the safety of communities in Yemen through local dialogue. -
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 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 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. -
Current Project 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. -
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 participatory action research in Myanmar, the project generates knowledge on how armed and political actors advance women’s protection and participation in territories under their control. -
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.