PTRO's head office is in Kabul where it has a permanent staff of 25 individuals. PTRO also maintains regional offices in Badghis and Helmand, and other provincial offices depending on current projects, so to date staff has been as large as 80 individuals nationwide. These staff members include experienced researchers and trainers, programme and provincial research managers, and all support staff, including research assistants, drivers, guards, cooks and local facilitators. The staff roles and breakdown are consistent with PTRO's methods of accessing and working in remote and/or high risk areas of Afghanistan in both its training and research oriented projects.

Anas Kakar is the current Deputy Director and head of the Peace Building Programme for Peace Training and Research Organisation (PTRO). In this role he is integral to the design, implementation and management of all Peace Building, conflict resolution and governance training programmes carried out by the Organisation, where he continues to also work as a Senior Trainer. Mr. Kakar has almost a decade of experience designing and implementing conflict management, human rights and PeaceBuilding initiatives across Afghanistan; this includes providing Training of Trainers. He is also one of the key developers of PTRO’s Good Governance training programmes. He graduated from the People’s Friendship University of Russia.