Berghof Foundation marks five years

The Berghof Foundation for Conflict studies, Sri Lanka office, marks five years of work with all the conflict parties in their effort to find a peaceful negotiated settlement to the protracted armed conflict.

The Foundation was invited to set up an office in Sri Lanka by the Government of Sri Lanka In July 2001.

The work of the Berghof Foundation in Sri Lanka is funded by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, which supports programs of the Berghof Foundation as part of it's bilateral development cooperation with the Government of Sri Lanka.

Over the last five years, the activities of the Berghof Foundation provided access to information and external expertise in Sri Lanka and opportunities to travel abroad and to learn from similar experiences of practitioners and academics from different parts of the world.