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. 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. The two later collaborate on a revision edition of 'The Little Book of Restorative Justice' at the Pakistan-Afghanistan context. 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. ==Notable work==