Programme Overview
Training Description
The training is designed for the staff of the United Nations (UN) and its agencies, the African Union (AU), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Coordination Board, and any agency dealing with matters of peace and security. The training workshop targets members working in the Civil Affairs, Human Rights, Protection, Transition and Reintegration, Gender Affairs, Military Personnel, UN Police and the Civil Societies Organizations. The Workshop also targets. The course targets Diplomatic staff across the globe and all stakeholders in peace and security matters. The objective of the course is to train the aforementioned staff in peacekeeping operations and political and peace building missions by enhancing their specific knowledge and skills and enabling them to develop a deeper understanding of ways to manage conflict transformation dimensions in a conflict or post-conflict environment.
Session Objectives
About the Course
The course will cover two complementary aspects – operational activities in conflict prevention, management and resolution (mediation, facilitation, negotiation, provision of advice, building rapport and network management, internal and external coordination and cooperation, engaging non-state armed groups and unarmed actors…), as well as conventional diplomatic activities (political reporting, speech writing, public speaking, designing political strategy and liaison with governments).
Curriculum & Topics
7 Topics | 66 Sessions
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Workshop 1.1: Navigating the Nexus
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Workshop 1.2: The Humanitarian-Development convergence
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Workshop 1.3: Triple nexus in practice and implications for facilitating durable solutions
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Workshop 1.4: Conceptual linkages between the triple nexus approach and durable solutions
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Workshop 1.5: H-D-P approach or triple nexus, Implications for Durable Solutions to Internal Displacement
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Workshop 1.6: Triple Nexus Approach
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Workshop 1.7: An integrated response to an insecure world
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Workshop 2.1: Conflict in the Contemporary World
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Workshop 2.2: Tools in conflict analysis
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Workshop 2.3: Tools in conflict analysis
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Workshop 2.4: Identifying and analyzing stakeholders
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Workshop 2.5: Stages and Dimensions of Conflict
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Workshop 2.6: The Art of Listening in Analyzing Conflict
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Workshop 2.7: Decoding Silences in Conflict
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Workshop 2.8: Conflict Mapping Strategies
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Workshop 2.9: Conflict Tree
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Workshop 3.1: Conflict in the Contemporary World
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Workshop 3.2: The Anatomy of Conflict and Violence
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Workshop 3.3: Tools in conflict analysis
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Workshop 3.4: Negotiation and Mediation
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Workshop 3.5: Diplomatic Considerations in Mediation
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Workshop 3.6: Cultural Considerations in Mediation
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Workshop 3.7: The Mediation Process
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Workshop 3.8: Gender and Inclusive-Mediation Strategies
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Workshop 3.9: AU/ECOWAS Approach to Mediation
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Workshop 3.10: International Criminal Court, The Hague
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Workshop 3.11: Indigenous Methods of Conflict Management and Transformation
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Workshop 4.1: Gender and peacekeeping
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Workshop 4.2: Youth and Peacekeeping
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Workshop 4.3: Responsibility to protect and why it is useful for peacekeepers
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Workshop 4.4: Conducting threat assessment through the mass atrocity lens
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Workshop 4.5: Humanitarian concepts and human rights
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Workshop 4.6: Peacekeeping and stability operations
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Workshop 4.7: Minorities in Peacekeeping
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Workshop 5.1: Observing the Pre-Election Period
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Workshop 5.2: Election Observation
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Workshop 5.3: Observation of electronic voting
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Workshop 5.4: Security in election observation missions
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Workshop 5.5: Democracy and Elections
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Workshop 5.6: Election Management Bodies and Election Administration
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Workshop 5.7: Elections and Conflicts Prevention
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Workshop 5.8: The media in electoral observation missions
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Workshop 5.9: Electoral campaign finance
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Workshop 5.10: New technologies in election observation
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Workshop 5.11: The Role of National and International Civil Society Groups in Election Observation
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Workshop 5.12: Women, Gender and Election Observation
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Workshop 5.13: Conducting Watertight elections
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Workshop 6.1: The Humanitarian Story: a history of humanitarianism
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Workshop 6.2: Humanitarian principles underpinning the CHS (Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability)
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Workshop 6.3: The responsibilities the CHS places on you and your organization
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Workshop 6.4: Humanitarian crises
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Workshop 6.5: Human rights and ethics
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Workshop 6.6: Humanitarian response to conflict and disaster
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Workshop 6.7: Public health in humanitarian crises
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Workshop 6.8: Humanitarian Standards
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Workshop 6.9: Sustainable Development in Humanitarian Action
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Workshop 6.10: Non State actors in Humanitarian Aid in Contemporary World
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Workshop 7.1: Climate finance sources and instruments
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Workshop 7.2: Decoding the current global climate performance architecture
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Workshop 7.3: Macro trends in climate finance in conflict-affected and fragile contexts
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Workshop 7.4: Multilateral fund level approaches to climate security
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Workshop 7.5: Climate change, risk factors and stock returns
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Workshop 7.6: Expanding the pool of contributors
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Workshop 7.7: Climate Change Mitigation
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Workshop 7.8: Natural Carbon Sinks protection
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Workshop 7.9: Water towers and crisis Management