Ali Gohar

For thirteen years until early 2001, Gohar served as the Additional Commissioner of the Social Welfare Cell for Afghan refugees, a UNHCR project operating across 258 refugee camps in northern Pakistan, with programmes covering HIV/AIDS awareness, peacebuilding, and community development.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship pursue his master's degree at Eastern Mennonite University's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, where he worked closely with restorative justice scholar Howard Zehr.^{[citation needed]} The two later collaborate on a revision edition of 'The Little Book of Restorative Justice' at the Pakistan-Afghanistan context.^[2][1] Shortly after returning to Pakistan in 2003 Gohar founded Just Peace International (now Just Peace Initiatives), a non-profit aimed at working for peace and justice through conflict transformation practices.^[3] As part of this work he received a United States Institute of Peace (USIP) grant to explore the principles of Jirga as peacebuilding. In 2006, Gohar joined Oxfam Great Britain as a campaign officer to end honour killings and address violence against women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), before returning Just Peace Initiatives as executive director.^{[citation needed]}

Gohar has published a number of works on restorative justice and jirga practices. In June 2002 he led a workshop in Peshawar, Pakistan titled, "Conflict transformation and peace building in Pakistan and Afghanistan", addressing community peacebuilding and restorative justice.^[4] In 2007 he produced at a thirteen-episode television program for a Pakistani television channel titled, "Why it's happened", examine the root causes of ethnic, tribal, and political conflict through interviews with police, religious scholars, jirga practitioners, and psychologists.^[5]

He has also written scripts for nationally broadcast television programmes addressing drug use, HIV/AIDS prevention, domestic violence, and honour killings.^[6]