Alex Austin is Associated Researcher, Dr. Martina Fischer is Acting Director and Dr. Norbert Ropers is Director at the Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, Berlin.

Das englischsprachige Berghof Handbook ist das internationale Referenzwerk zum Thema Konflikttransformation.

The Berghof Handbook offers both practitioners and scholars a systematic overview of the state-of-the-art of conflict transformation.

Contens.- Concepts and Cross-Cutting Challenges.- The Civilisation of Conflict: Constructive Pacifism as a Guiding Notion for Conflict Transformation.- Assessing the State-of-the-Art in Conflict Transformation.- Conflict Transformation: A Multi-Dimensional Task.- Culture, Power Asymmetries and Gender in Conflict Transformation.- Analysing Conflict and Assessing Conflict Transformation.- Trends and Causes of Armed Conflict.- Early Warning and The Field: A Cargo Cult Science?.- Designing Transformation and Intervention Processes.- Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment Methodology.- Experiences with Impact Assessment: Can we know what Good we do?.- Enhancing the Capacity for Conflict Transformation.- Facilitation Skills for Interpersonal Transformation.- Team and Organisational Development as a Means for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.- From Resolution to Transformation: The Role of Dialogue Projects.- Structural Reforms, Institutionbuilding and Violence Control.- Conflict Transformation through State Reform.- Hawks and Doves: Peace Keeping and Conflict Resolution.- The News Media and the Transformation of Ethnopolitical Conflicts.- The Role of Development Aid in Conflict Transformation: Facilitating Empowerment Processes and Community Building.- Recovering from War: Reconstruction versus Just Peace.- Recovering from Violent Conflict: Regeneration and (Re-)Integration as Elements of Peacebuilding.- Dealing with the Consequences of Organised Violence in Trauma Work.- Supporting Justice, Co-existence and Reconciliation after Armed Conflict: Strategies for Dealing with the Past.- Towards Conflict Transformation and a Just Peace.- About the Contributors.