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 Afghanistan: Fostering peace negotiations
The overall goal of Berghof’s work in this region is to support Afghan-driven efforts to resolve the protracted conflict and to restore resilient and sustainable peace. -
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 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. -
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 Memory and history dialogue in Azerbaijan and Karabakh
We use individual biographical narratives to stimulate reflection and discussion in the respective societies. -
Current Project 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. -
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 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 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 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.