# Ali Gohar

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Not to be confused with Mughal Emperor [Shah Alam II](/source/Shah_Alam_II), whose birth name is Ali Gohar.

**Ali Gohar** is a Pakistani scholar and restorative justice practitioner. He is the founder and executive director of *Just Peace Initiatives* (formerly Just Peace International).

## Early life and education

Ali Gohar was born in Kaala, a village in [Swabi District](/source/Swabi_District), [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa](/source/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan. Gohar holds an [MSc](/source/Master_of_Science) in [international relations](/source/International_relations) from [Quaid-i-Azam University](/source/Quaid-i-Azam_University), Islamabad, and an [MA](/source/Master_of_Science) in conflict transformation from [Eastern Mennonite University](/source/Eastern_Mennonite_University), in [Harrisonburg, Virginia](/source/Harrisonburg,_Virginia).[1]

## Career

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

In 2001 he was awarded a [Fulbright scholarship](/source/Fulbright_Program) pursue his master's degree at [Eastern Mennonite University](/source/Eastern_Mennonite_University)'s [Center for Justice and Peacebuilding](/source/Center_for_Justice_and_Peacebuilding), where he worked closely with restorative justice scholar [Howard Zehr](/source/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](/source/United_States_Institute_of_Peace) (USIP) grant to explore the principles of Jirga as peacebuilding. In 2006, Gohar joined [Oxfam](/source/Oxfam) Great Britain as a campaign officer to end honour killings and address violence against women in [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa](/source/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa) (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), before returning Just Peace Initiatives as executive director.[citation needed]

## Notable work

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](/source/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]

## References

1. Zehr, Howard & Gohar, Ali. [*The Little Book of Restorative Justice*](http://www.unicef.org/tdad/littlebookrjpakaf.pdf). The Little Book Series. Intercourse, Pennsylvania, USA: Good Books.

1. ["Who are We?"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120330094529/http://www.justpeaceint.org/whoarewe.php#top1). Archived from [the original](http://www.justpeaceint.org/whoarewe.php#top1) on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2014.

1. Shabab Ahmed, Zahid (18 August 2010). ["Combining Modern and Traditional Justice Techniques: The Jirga in Pakistan"](http://www.insightonconflict.org/2010/08/jirga-restorative-justice/). *Insight on Conflict*. Retrieved 20 November 2014.

1. ["Need for peaceful co-existence stressed"](https://www.dawn.com/news/44065/need-for-peaceful-co-existence-stressed). *dawn.com*. [Dawn](/source/Dawn_(newspaper)). 21 June 2002. Retrieved 4 April 2026.

1. ["Ali Gohar"](https://web.archive.org/web/20111201161406/http://emu.edu/now/peacebuilder/cjp-alumni/ali-gohar/). Archived from [the original](http://emu.edu/now/peacebuilder/cjp-alumni/ali-gohar/) on 1 December 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2014.

1. Ali Gohar (2014). [*Bya sahar sho*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eztVuVfN3j8) (in Urdu). Retrieved 12 December 2014.

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