Courses

May 4, 2010 - May 10, 2010 Peace Processes: Making a Deal, Making it Stick Course will demonstrate the interdependence of a peace agreement and the implementation process. Participants will get a chance to practice addressing paradoxes, dilemmas, and ambiguities inherent in peace processes. Explores related concepts and phenomena such as Diasporas, spoilers, gender inclusion, ritual transformation, power and numerous negotiation issues.
December 14, 2009 - December 18, 2009 Enhancing Social Well-Being in Fragile States Building on the experiences of numerous international actors, this course investigates the fundamentals of successful humanitarian assistance and in-depth discussions of the longer-term needs for social well-being and development in fragile states. Will focus on humanitarian assistance, refugee populations, and on the development of institutions that contribute to social well-being.
September 22, 2009 - September 25, 2009 Engaging With Identity-Based Differences 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.

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