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Understanding Conflict and Fragility - Implications for Policy and Practice

Interventions in conflict contexts, no matter how well intended, sometimes do more harm than good. This training will show you how to analyse conflict situations, improve the peacebuilding potential of interventions and avoid adverse consequences.

Course dates - 26th to 28th November 2013, London.

ENTRi - Conflict Analysis & Conflict Sensitivity

The aim of the course is to enable participants to use their skills, competencies and experience to conduct a conflict analysis and to devise conflict sensitive approaches to civilian crisis management.

Course dates - 4th to 7th November 2013, Greater London.

Understanding Conflict ‘Training for Peace’

International Alert’s Training & Learning team is offering a new training course to practitioners in the peacebuilding and development sectors, especially those engaged in the delivery of peacebuilding training.

Course dates - 7th to 11th October 2013, Nairobi.

About our courses

We offer courses on some of the key topics in peacebuilding today, such as;

Conflict analysis/conflict sensitivity
Gender in Peacebuilding
Economic Dimensions of Peacebuilding
Transformative Approaches to Conflict: Dialogue and Mediation
Transitional Justice and Reconciliation.

Universities

We deliver courses to university students at all levels, introducing them to the core skills for working in conflict. The exercises are interactive and engaging adding a practical aspect to their academic knowledge. Our clients include: Kings College London, London Metropolitan University, the University of East Anglia and University of York, Post-War Reconstruction and Development Unit.

Comments from our participants include:

“The course really inspired me and gave me a practical introduction, clear view to working for peace in conflict situation.”

“I have always wanted to work in this field and it gave me more of what to expect”

Europe’s new Training Initiative for Civilian Crisis Management (ENTRi). http://www.entriforccm.eu/

We are one of 13 partners of the ENTRi capacity-building programme, training civilians for deployment to crisis management mission worldwide including those of the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the African Union (AU).

We deliver the course specialising on conflict analysis and conflict sensitivity. To read more about this course click here http://www.entriforccm.eu/conflict-analysis-und-conflict-sensitivity.html

“The most important lessons gained from the course were how complex working in a conflict environment is and the importance of the approach we adopt when working in conflict”

Conflict Sensitivity Consortium

We are a member of the Conflict Sensitivity Consortium, which comprises a diverse range of agencies and aims to share its findings widely in the humanitarian, peacebuilding and development sectors to enhance the capacity to institutionalise and implement conflict sensitive approaches.

http://www.conflictsensitivity.org/