Courses

July 12, 2010 - July 16, 2010 Peace Processes: Making a Deal, Making it Stick 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.
May 24, 2010 - May 28, 2010 Governance and Democratic Practices in War to Peace Transitions How is good governance achieved in states that have collapsed? Develop effective strategies in establishing stable institutions and supporting a robust civil society. Dynamic modules address the interplay among issues of corruption, accountability, rule of law, elections, political party development, public administration and economic reconstruction in divided societies.

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