Analysing and Understanding Conflicts

Generally speaking there is much more behind a particular conflict than just one particular event that set it off. So it is crucial that projects to promote peace conduct systematic conflict analyses. Only then can they identify the starting points for peace work and estimate what impacts a third-party intervention could have.

Using practical examples, participants will become familiar with current theories and models relating to violence and conflict and apply these together with conflict analysis methods. They then learn to see them within the relevant peace-related policies and cultural context.

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Mediation and Negotiation

Mediation and negotiation generally play an important role in the work of Civil Peace Service peace experts. They advise conflict parties in mediation and negotiation processes, teach the appropriate skills in seminars or apply these methods themselves during their project work.

This training course introduces various methods of conflict intervention with a focus on negotiation and mediation. Using the model of conflict transformation developed by Diana Francis, participants learn when and how a third-party intervention is a sensible option. As well as teaching relevant methods, this course also offers a chance to discuss the following aspects of this topic: the peace experts’ perception of their own role; the idea of impartiality; building trust; shaping long-term change processes; and cultural influences.

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The Core Course aims at providing participants with the basic knowledge and skills required in post-conflict and crisis areas, independent of the specific function they will fulfill as experts in their own fields. All the modules should enhance desirable personal attitudes, stress the importance of active involvement in the host society and promote a reflective and critical approach with regard to the complex issues faced in peace-keeping and peace-building.  Particular stress is put on the development of a co-operative attitude towards representatives and approaches of governmental and inter-governmental actors involved in peace-building, peace-keeping, development co-operation and humanitarian assistance as well as on the mainstreaming of a conflict- and gender-sensitive approach.

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(Deadline for applications: 9 December 2011)

Working in Teams in an Intercultural Context

If the members of a project team can work together well, this has a decisive effect on the overall success of a project. However, Civil Peace Service projects are faced with some particular challenges in this regard. The ‘overseas’ specialist is generally assigned to a local organisation or an existing project team. This constellation of deploying organisation and partner organisation often leads to unclear and ambivalent factors which the peace expert has to deal with.

Any project with ambitions of promoting peace is subject to particular scrutiny: Do the approach, behaviour and work process organisation all fit the project aims and the values of conflict transformation? This training course will analyse team development processes and member roles in light of the conditions described above. Reflecting on their own experiences, behaviour and learning about suitable team-building methods, participants will be able to positively influence teamwork and group dynamics.

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Trauma and the Psychosocial Dimension of Peace Work

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With this course SSR activities of various actors, in particular the EU, will be supported. Experts should be prepared to deal with civilian, legal, police-related, or military challenges in the framework of a holistic SSR approach. The course will deal with major aspects of the assessment, analysis, design, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of SSR. Participants will not only learn to collaborate with other actors from the various segments of the security sector but will also learn lessons regarding the better functioning in their own field of expertise.

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(Deadline for applications: 9 January 2012)

The Specialisation Course aims at enhancing the skills needed by those dealing with human rights in the field. It helps to ensure that  their work is efficient, relevant, sustainable, participatory, accountable and carried out safely before or after armed conflict. The course is designed to raise participants’ self-awareness in terms of behavior, attitudes and values when undertaking international human rights fieldwork. It includes sessions on core skills like monitoring, reporting, fact-finding and interview techniques as well as human rights promotion and education. The protection of vulnerable groups is another issue dealt with during the course.

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Peace and Conflict-sensitive Impact Analysis

Civil conflict management projects should effect long-lasting social transformation: this is an ambitious aim and a complex task. At the same time, peace experts face challenges due to working in difficult surroundings on an everyday basis and these challenges can easily lead to the tendency to focus on urgent tasks and neglect strategic and long-term planning and control.

Continuous monitoring and evaluation of project activities helps to keep the project aims in mind, notice where they need to be adapted, and ensure that no unintentional damage is caused. Of course, the effectiveness of the project work also has to be demonstrated to the funders and the public.

For this reason, monitoring and effect measurement have to be built into the project planning right from the beginning and continually practised during the life of the project. It is essential to have a clear idea of how the desired social transformation should be achieved. This training course introduces the most common methods of conflict-sensitive effect analysis, presenting their advantages and disadvantages and applying them to case studies. Participants learn to apply continuous and practicable quality management during their everyday project work.

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Self-care in Stressful Situations

Working in crisis areas and having to deal with violence have an effect on mental health and relationships with others. This process often goes unnoticed, but can be an excessive burden for peace workers. Without being aware of it themselves, they might face problems such as secondary traumatisation and burnout. The former is often triggered by intensive contact with traumatised people and the latter generally results from high levels of stress and unrealistic expectations concerning one’s own work.

This training course imparts both theory and practical methods which help the participants to protect themselves from burnout and secondary traumatisation. They are helped to consider their own personal limits with regard to threats and violence, helping them to avoid overstepping these limits.

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Consultancy as a Key Qualification

Specialists working for the Civil Peace Service or in other related fields frequently assume the role of an “adviser” or “consultant”. It is taken for granted that their specialist knowledge and methodological skills are useful and advantageous for the local project partners. However, particular skills and a clear understanding of the role of a consultant are needed in order to provide truly effective and appropriate advice.

In this training course, participants learn about possible intervention levels for their advice. These include helping partners to clarify their own positions and situation, clear up communication difficulties or see the system as a whole in project and organisational contexts. They explore different roles and styles of consulting to find out which ones are relevant and suitable for them. Finally, they are taught about different methods and how intercultural sensitivity is needed in consultancy.

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Initiating and Supporting Dialogue

Initiating and supporting dialogue is a classic way to guide and influence peace processes. It is used at all levels, from grassroots organisations up to political and military leaders. The dialogue processes aim to bring together a range of actors, help the different parties to understand and trust each other, and take into consideration the needs and interests of all parties to the conflict in a search for feasible ways forward.

Dialogue as a method of conflict management has the power to advance peace processes. However, the results and the long-term effects of dialogue projects depend heavily on the way the processes are carried out, the parties included and the methods applied.

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Transforming Workplace Conflicts: Improving Work Efficiency

This 5 day course offers in-depth conflict resolution skills for individuals, managers and organizations as well as methodologies that will assist leaders to help their staff resolve interpersonal conflicts before the conflict escalates. Conflicts being a natural occurrence at all levels  in every workplace, conflict management competencies are important for every leader and employee, especially those in a supervisor, manager or senior leadership position.

Designing Peace Projects

Peace projects require prior analysis in order to deepen the understanding of the conflict and find starting points for change. How exactly are the results of such an analysis translated into a successful project design? Which instruments and methods are suitable for this? And how do they lead to a concept for a coherent and effective overall project?

In this training course, participants learn to draft coherent project designs using their knowledge about communication, conflict analysis, negotiation, mediation, impact analysis, and models and theories of conflict transformation. In addition, they develop peace strategies that take into account wider socio-political developments and devise ways to include violent conflict parties in the process of transformation.

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Early Warning, Early Response and Contemporary Peace Operations (EWER)

This 5-week course is designed to introduce the world of EW/ER in complex integrated emergency situations. The course will introduce participants to the different aspects and indicators of early warning and early response, the discussions surrounding early response, and the selection, evaluation and validation of a number of EW/ER tools. Participants will learn to become comfortable in selecting and using an appropriate analytical tool, using it correctly and accurately assessing its strengths and weaknesses in light of their goals. An important outcome is to focus on how early warning will work in practice.

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Improving Effectiveness and Impact in the Design, Development and Implementation of Peacebuilding Projects and Programmes

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Implementing Effective Monitoring & Evaluation of Peacebuilding Programmes

Short description

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Systemic Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation & Post-War Recovery, and Reconciliation (PCTR)

The PCTR program is a five-day intensive training which provides middle and senior-level experts with a forum for reflection and professional development in a dynamic and stimulating environment.  Given the issues it addresses, it  is also relevant for those working in political, gender, security, human rights, development, and humanitarian fields, donors, and diplomats, working in areas affected or threatened by war and armed conflict or in post-war situations.

The PCTR draws upon a global experience base, systematically weaving together key operational and policy lessons identified and good practices. The direct, needs-based, skills and knowledge intensive approach of the PCTR is particularly relevant for senior and executive field staff and leadership in governments and organisations as well as mid-range staff and field practitioners in national and international aid and development organisations. The program’s focus on practical experiences, skills which can be used in the field, and modules on systemic peacebuilding, early warning, conflict intelligence, and applied peacebuilding methodologies, have received strong and positive feed-back from participants, both during the program and years later.

Participants include: senior experts, field staff working in areas affected by violent conflict and war and in post-war situations, international diplomats, national and local level politicians in countries affected by war and conflict or with portfolios responsible for issues dealing with peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and development policies, policy makers, UN staff and heads of missions, people involved in grass-roots and community-based peacebuilding, and practitioners of conflict transformation and mediation.

DDR Advanced Course on Reintegration

This course is aimed at bringing together people working in this field to share best practices and lessons learnt from reintegration experiences in different parts of the world. The course will build and enhance the skills and knowledge of participants so as to be able to improve the quality of the work of reintegration. It will support participants in assessing local realities and help to design, implement and coordinate tailored reintegration efforts more effectively, ensuring that future work measures up to IDDR standards.

The Core Course aims at providing participants with the basic knowledge and skills required in post-conflict and crisis areas, independent of the specific function they will fulfill as experts in their own fields. All the modules should enhance desirable personal attitudes, stress the importance of active involvement in the host society and promote a reflective and critical approach with regard to the complex issues faced in peace-keeping and peace-building.  Particular stress is put on the development of a co-operative attitude towards representatives and approaches of governmental and inter-governmental actors involved in peace-building, peace-keeping, development co-operation and humanitarian assistance as well as on the mainstreaming of a conflict- and gender-sensitive approach.

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(Deadline for applications: 11 May 2012)

International Civilian Peacekeeping/Peacebuilding Training Program (IPT) Specialisation Course on Conflict Transformation 

The Specialisation Course aims at enhancing the effectiveness of specialists in fields other than conflict transformation by adding skills for their conflict sensitive action. They can thus improve their daily work in the field, even if they are not primarily conflict workers. It also helps practitioners of conflict transformation to adapt their pre-existing knowledge to the field work context. The course is built on different modules aiming at increasing the participants’ operational awareness and handling of the complexity and interrelation of conflict issues as well as the modalities, techniques and impact of third party interventions as related to conflict and peace.

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(Deadline for applications: 11 May 2012)

Making Peace Processes Work

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Making Prevention Work

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Improving Strategic and Operational Effectiveness of Peacebuilding Programmes and Peace Support Operations

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Violent Group Conflicts and Approcahes to Intervention

The end of the Cold War and the geopolitical developments after September 11th, 2001, led to the development of a variety of theoretical approaches and scientific views of current violent conflicts and how to deal with them. It is not possible to identify one consistent paradigm behind this variety of academic approaches, which makes it difficult for peace experts and curriculum directors alike to decide upon a theoretical orientation. However, it is essential for peace workers to anchor their practical work in a sound theoretical foundation. Otherwise it is difficult to ensure that individual projects are coherently integrated into the overall conflict transformation context.

This training course offers an overview of the relevant body of theory, imparting practical categories to help understand current violent conflicts and the most significant approaches to dealing with them. The work of the Civil Peace Service is then classified within the system developed during the course.

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The course links this comprehensive peacebuilding approach to the specific professional and personal challenges of experts from a wide range of professional and organisational backgrounds who are already involved or plan to become involved in planning and implementing peacebuilding activities, either from their home base in governmental or non-governmental organisations or in a leading position in the field. Police and military experts involved in planning and implementing police or military activities in conjunction with Peacebuilding activities are also important addressees.

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(Deadline for applications: 29 June 2012)

Social Justice and Diversity

A variety of social movements have arisen in the past 150 years to mobilise against the mechanisms of oppression and repression based in established and sometimes institutionalised unequal power structures. The diversity approach offers these movements the theory and practice needed to develop synergies, bundle energies and agree common aims.

Social justice is a method that deals specifically with the intersectionality of different forms of discrimination, such as sexism, anti-semitism, racism, classism and heteronormativity. Impossible to separate completely, these different forms can be treated as having similar structures and reinforcing each other.

The social justice approach uses dialogue, with a focus on understanding different conditions and the power (or lack of power) arising from these conditions. This approach considers all forms of discrimination in an equally serious way, with the aim of building up appreciative, supportive relations with others that are based on dialogue and mutual acceptance. It also aims to develop and apply the appropriate activities needed to live those relations.

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Facilitation, Mediation and Negotiation Skills

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Communication is constantly taking place everywhere, whether verbal or non-verbal. Messages are being sent and received whether we want it or not and the messages are often not the ones we intended. In everyday life communication seems self-evident enough, so we hardly spare a thought about how it happens, when and where misunderstandings arise and what consequences these have.

This makes it especially important to create clarity about communication in contexts of conflict and violence, since efficient communication can prevent the escalation of conflicts or at least make a contribution to dealing with the conflict in a positive way. Efficient communication needs the ability to articulate opinions, feelings and needs without aggression or prejudice and the mastery of some special techniques and methodological approaches. After all, being conscious of our own style of communication can positively influence how a conflict develops.

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Analysing and Understanding Conflicts

Generally speaking there is much more behind a particular conflict than just one particular event that set it off. So it is crucial that projects to promote peace conduct systematic conflict analyses. Only then can they identify the starting points for peace work and estimate what impacts a third-party intervention could have.

Using practical examples, participants will become familiar with current theories and models relating to violence and conflict and apply these together with conflict analysis methods. They then learn to see them within the relevant peace-related policies and cultural context.

Click here for more information and here to apply

International Civilian Peacekeeping/Peacebuilding Training Program (IPT) Core Course

The Core Course aims at providing participants with the basic knowledge and skills required in post-conflict and crisis areas, independent of the specific function they will fulfill as experts in their own fields. All the modules should enhance desirable personal attitudes, stress the importance of active involvement in the host society and promote a reflective and critical approach with regard to the complex issues faced in peace-keeping and peace-building.  Particular stress is put on the development of a co-operative attitude towards representatives and approaches of governmental and inter-governmental actors involved in peace-building, peace-keeping, development co-operation and humanitarian assistance as well as on the mainstreaming of a conflict- and gender-sensitive approach.

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(Deadline for applications: 31 August 2012)

Mediation and Negotiation

Mediation and negotiation generally play an important role in the work of Civil Peace Service peace experts. They advise conflict parties in mediation and negotiation processes, teach the appropriate skills in seminars or apply these methods themselves during their project work.

This training course introduces various methods of conflict intervention with a focus on negotiation and mediation. Using the model of conflict transformation developed by Diana Francis, participants learn when and how a third-party intervention is a sensible option. As well as teaching relevant methods, this course also offers a chance to discuss the following aspects of this topic: the peace experts’ perception of their own role; the idea of impartiality; building trust; shaping long-term change processes; and cultural influences.

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Designing Peacebuilding Programmes: Improving Sustainability, Impact and Effectiveness in Peacebuilding & Peace Support Operations (DPP)

Designing Peacebuilding Programmes helps agencies, organisations and practitioners working in conflict, crisis and post-war stabilization and recovery to improve the quality, effectiveness and sustainable impact of their programs – including crisis management and prevention, peacebuilding, social, economic and political stabilization, reconciliation in divided communities, and post-war recovery, rehabilitation and development. Drawing on more than 30 yearsexperience in 40 countries, the program represents the most advanced of its kind for policy makers, practitioners, government officials and donors internationally.

International Civilian Peacekeeping/Peacebuilding Training Program (IPT) Specialisation Course on Election Observation and Assistance

The objective of the Specialisation Course is to support the development and consolidation of pluralistic, democratic societies through preparing participants for observation and assistance tasks in electoral missions. Participants receive an introduction to the concept of elections as part of the democratic process, explaining some basic concepts and practices of democracy, the relationship between elections and human rights and the democratic standards for elections. Topics to be dealt with include different electoral systems, different institutional approaches to election observation and assistance, elections and election observation in different societies, tasks of Short-Term Observers (STOs), Long-Term Oberservers (LTOs) and Election Supervisors. The complete election cycle is also analysed in a case study.

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(Deadline for applications: 31 August 2012)

Working in Teams in an Intercultural Context

If the members of a project team can work together well, this has a decisive effect on the overall success of a project. However, Civil Peace Service projects are faced with some particular challenges in this regard. The ‘overseas’ specialist is generally assigned to a local organisation or an existing project team. This constellation of deploying organisation and partner organisation often leads to unclear and ambivalent factors which the peace expert has to deal with.

Any project with ambitions of promoting peace is subject to particular scrutiny: Do the approach, behaviour and work process organisation all fit the project aims and the values of conflict transformation? This training course will analyse team development processes and member roles in light of the conditions described above. Reflecting on their own experiences, behaviour and learning about suitable team-building methods, participants will be able to positively influence teamwork and group dynamics.

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Trauma and the Psychosocial Dimension of Peace Work 

War and violence can trigger trauma in the affected people. Symptoms of trauma include: impaired ability to enter into social relations or build trust; despair and hopelessness; and excessive alertness and fear. However, people with different social backgrounds and in a different context don’t all react in the same way, and an experience of violence doesn’t always lead to trauma. This makes it particularly difficult to correctly understand trauma processes in post-conflict scenarios and to find an appropriate way of dealing with them.

Trauma are often ignored or falsely interpreted as the symptoms of a lack of motivation or “cultural idiosyncrasies”. Nonetheless, during practical peace work it is not at all helpful to apply an undifferentiated interpretation of “trauma” in the same way for all members of a particular population group. Peace experts also face the additional risk of suffering from trauma themselves due to the intensive contact with affected people or their own direct experiences whilst in the crisis region.

Those who work with traumatised people therefore have to be aware of the various dimensions and dynamics of both individual and social trauma processes. Lay people should not attempt to treat trauma therapeutically, but in order to deal with this issue in a professional way, they should be able to decide whether they can make a contribution to the victim’s psychosocial recovery or whether expert therapeutic help is needed.

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Peace and Conflict-sensitive Impact Analysis

Civil conflict management projects should effect long-lasting social transformation: this is an ambitious aim and a complex task. At the same time, peace experts face challenges due to working in difficult surroundings on an everyday basis and these challenges can easily lead to the tendency to focus on urgent tasks and neglect strategic and long-term planning and control.

Continuous monitoring and evaluation of project activities helps to keep the project aims in mind, notice where they need to be adapted, and ensure that no unintentional damage is caused. Of course, the effectiveness of the project work also has to be demonstrated to the funders and the public.

For this reason, monitoring and effect measurement have to be built into the project planning right from the beginning and continually practised during the life of the project. It is essential to have a clear idea of how the desired social transformation should be achieved. This training course introduces the most common methods of conflict-sensitive effect analysis, presenting their advantages and disadvantages and applying them to case studies. Participants learn to apply continuous and practicable quality management during their everyday project work.

Click here for more information and here to apply

Self-care in Stressful Situations

Working in crisis areas and having to deal with violence have an effect on mental health and relationships with others. This process often goes unnoticed, but can be an excessive burden for peace workers. Without being aware of it themselves, they might face problems such as secondary traumatisation and burnout. The former is often triggered by intensive contact with traumatised people and the latter generally results from high levels of stress and unrealistic expectations concerning one’s own work.

This training course imparts both theory and practical methods which help the participants to protect themselves from burnout and secondary traumatisation. They are helped to consider their own personal limits with regard to threats and violence, helping them to avoid overstepping these limits.

Click here for more information and here to apply

Consultancy as a Key Qualification

Specialists working for the Civil Peace Service or in other related fields frequently assume the role of an “adviser” or “consultant”. It is taken for granted that their specialist knowledge and methodological skills are useful and advantageous for the local project partners. However, particular skills and a clear understanding of the role of a consultant are needed in order to provide truly effective and appropriate advice.

In this training course, participants learn about possible intervention levels for their advice. These include helping partners to clarify their own positions and situation, clear up communication difficulties or see the system as a whole in project and organisational contexts. They explore different roles and styles of consulting to find out which ones are relevant and suitable for them. Finally, they are taught about different methods and how intercultural sensitivity is needed in consultancy.

Click here for more information and here to apply

Initiating and Supporting Dialogue

Initiating and supporting dialogue is a classic way to guide and influence peace processes. It is used at all levels, from grassroots organisations up to political and military leaders. The dialogue processes aim to bring together a range of actors, help the different parties to understand and trust each other, and take into consideration the needs and interests of all parties to the conflict in a search for feasible ways forward.

Dialogue as a method of conflict management has the power to advance peace processes. However, the results and the long-term effects of dialogue projects depend heavily on the way the processes are carried out, the parties included and the methods applied.

Click here for more information and here to apply

Designing Peace Projects

Peace projects require prior analysis in order to deepen the understanding of the conflict and find starting points for change. How exactly are the results of such an analysis translated into a successful project design? Which instruments and methods are suitable for this? And how do they lead to a concept for a coherent and effective overall project?

In this training course, participants learn to draft coherent project designs using their knowledge about communication, conflict analysis, negotiation, mediation, impact analysis, and models and theories of conflict transformation. In addition, they develop peace strategies that take into account wider socio-political developments and devise ways to include violent conflict parties in the process of transformation.

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Economic actors are increasingly seen as positive drivers of change in a broad approach to prevention and peace building, through their capacity to contribute to sustainable and equitable economic growth. An inclusive view on the concept economic actors comprise local and foreign investing companies, local and central governments, as well as key individuals, local civil society, regional and international organizations, creating and supporting initiatives of economic development. In this course, the main focus will be on local economic activity and the peace building potential of actors in this perspective. The objective of the course is to give participants a deeper understanding of who the economic actors are, who they could be, and to provide guidance and practical tools on how to interact with and to support them as a way to prevent the emergence, escalation and recurrence of violent conflict.

In view of the problems with mass unemployment in many conflict areas of the world, and the obvious link to instability and lack of development, the course will focus on the creation of employment in decent work instead of warfare; how to ensure access to the labour market by all groups, with a special focus on women and youth. Methods to support the emergence of new business will also be highlighted in the course. Participants will be trained in the use of dialogue and participatory processes as tools to define common needs, possibilities and challenges.This course is also an attempt to approach the traditional concept of Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) by focusing on the reintegration phase, and in particular, the potential to support existing economic structures or develop new ones, and thereby create conditions for economic growth and job opportunities to diminish the risk of use of violence and recurrence of conflict in situations of transition to sustainable peace.

The methodology is highly interactive with strong focus on exercises and discussions in groups. The learning process is supported by experienced facilitators and resource persons.

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(Deadline for applications: 17 February 2012)

Facilitation of Dialogue Processes and Mediation Efforts

Dialogue and mediation are voluntary processes where multiple stakeholders to a conflict, facilitated by a third party, aim at reaching an agreement that is mutually satisfactory. When a solution is found through a participatory process of common learning, it has the potential to increase the sustainability and legitimacy of the result, to create non-violent conflict resolution mechanisms for the future, and lead to changes in attitudes towards “the other”, thereby improving the relations between the parties. This is crucial if the goal is not limited to preventing violent incidents but rather to aim at creating resilient societies capable of handling future conflict.

The purpose of this course is to contribute to the development of capacities which transform conflict by peaceful means. The main focus of the course will be on skills-building in facilitation of dialogue and mediation processes, taking participants through the different phases of such processes. This includes elements of process design, conflict analysis, and values-based leadership.

The course is partly based on specific cases, highly interactive and includes group discussions, personal and group reflections, role plays and video observations, where the participants will be coached by expert resource persons as well as by each other.

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(Deadline for applications:15 March 2012)

Reconciliation as Process and Practice

Many violent conflicts reoccur within a decade after the adoption of a peace agreement. From aconflict prevention perspective, it is therefore essential to work on the building of peaceful relationsin societies formerly divided by conflict. In many of today’s internal conflicts, former enemies need tolive and work side by side after the end of hostilities, reinforcing the need for restoration of peacefulrelations between individuals in a society. Consequently, the work of reconciliation involves broadlayers of the population with the objective of moving from a divided past to a shared future.

The purpose of this course is to develop capacities to support the rapprochement of former enemiesand the building of peaceful relations in divided societies. Participants are invited to a holisticexploration of reconciliation, involving the role of justice and how trauma impact reconciliation work,together with the use of dialogue, the role of economic development and understanding origins ofviolence in the rebuilding of a peaceful society. The course will be highly interactive with a focus onskills-building, discussions and exercises. The course will focus on reconciliation from a conflictprevention perspective.

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(Deadline for applications: 16 August 2012)