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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.

April 26, 2010 - April 30, 2010
Who's on First? Security Institutions in Post-Conflct Societies

This course presents the interconnectedness of the foreign and local military, civilian police, NGOs and civil society and the numerous challenges inherent in the eventual transfer of responsibility for security to local forces. Participants practice developing strategies that account for the complex interactions between the various security reform mechanisms and the various threats that challenge peacekeeping efforts. Exercise topics include civ-mil relations, reforming local police forces, protection of civilians and IDPs, SSR and DDR.
February 22, 2010 - February 26, 2010
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.
January 25, 2010 - January 29, 2010
Introduction to Post-Conflict Strategies and Operations

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.