Courses

While peace agreements are difficult to attain, their implementation often proves even more challenging in the quest for the desired end state.  This course gives participants a comprehensive perspective that seeks to reconcile peace talks and implementation processes. This course includes lessons on getting parties to the table, addressing paradoxes, dilemmas, asymmetries, and ambiguities inherent in peace processes. Participants will explore related concepts and phenomena such as diasporas, spoilers, gender inclusion, ritual transformation, power and numerous negotiation issues.

Advanced training for people who face negotiation challenges in their professional work. Participants learn to adapt their tactics to varying, dynamic situations, and learn how to plan for a negotiation. Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, participants master a 15-point framework that encourages improvisation and helps overcomes barriers to agreement in situations ranging from policy coordination to crisis negotiations in the field to high-level diplomatic encounters.

Outlines strategies and distinctive challenges for third-party mediators and other advisors, including countering hate speech and exclusionary policies, engaging religious and tribal leaders, establishing trust through intergroup dialogues, and other measures. Recommended for practitioners whose peacebuilding work requires them to work with religious, ethnic, tribal and minority groups.

A 'hands on' course that provides students with a guiding principles for organizing and implementing post-conflict and stability operations based upon desired end-states commonly accpeted by the peacebuilding community. The course will focus on the critical issues that confront post-conflict interventions and the overarching leadership challenges involved in manthese objectives.

This course is designed to enhance the peacemaking capacities of individuals and faith-based organizations by focusing on objectives, methods, and best practices of interfaith dialogue, a form of religious peacemaking increasingly recognized for its relevance to 21st Century conflict.