Berghof Foundation

The Berghof Foundation is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting efforts for achieving sustainable peace through conflict transformation research, dialogue and mediation and peace education. Based in Germany, the NGO is run by a diverse team with staff from several countries and maintains working relations with partners around the globe. An international Board of Trustees supports its work.

Our vision is a world in which people maintain peaceful relations and overcome violence as a means of political and social change. While we consider conflict to be an integral and often necessary part of political and social life, we believe that violence in conflict is not inevitable. We are convinced that protracted violent conflicts can be transformed into sustained collaboration, when spaces for conflict transformation allow drivers of change to prosper and constructively engage with one another.