The Common Space Initiative

The Berghof Foundation has been providing technical support to the National Dialogue in Lebanon since 2008. In the second half of 2009, the project helped to establish the Common Space Initiative, focusing on the root causes of the Lebanese conflict and served as an instrument to support and complement the National Dialogue process. Today, the Common Space Initiative is a significant Lebanese-owned mechanism to address deep-rooted conflict in Lebanon through dialogue, joint reflection and consensus-building between policy makers, intellectuals, experts, civil society actors and others. The overall aim of the project is to contribute to an environment conducive to effective, sustainable and successful dialogue and negotiations in which the basic needs and interests of Lebanese and their contingent parties are met.