Founded in June 2020, ‘Mafkoora Research & Development Centre’ is a Peshawar-based scholastic, research, cultural and artistic organization committed to accumulating glocal knowledge, inspiring indigenous wisdom, encouraging creative artisanship, promoting critical thinking and preventing and countering violent extremism. It disseminates academic and cultural ventures through education and training, research and literature, dialogue, and visual and performing arts. Mafkoora is registered under ‘Societies Act XXI of 1860’ in the Office of the Provincial Registrar Joint Stock Companies & Societies, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.