Training and Learning
Myths and conflict in the South Caucasus (Russian)
This new training manual is designed to promote critical thinking towards enemy images and discourses at the heart of the conflict dynamic in the South Caucasus. Designed to be useful for professionals such as teachers, students, journalists and peacebuilding practitioners, the training should equip participants with tools to resist the manipulation of public opinion through invented stereotypes.
This new training manual is designed to promote critical thinking towards enemy images and discourses at the heart of the conflict dynamic in the South Caucasus.
'Now I see it differently'
‘Now I see it differently’, said one of the participants on our four-day course on conflict analysis and conflict sensitivity in Birmingham, UK last month.
The event, designed to train and prepare civilians for crisis management missions worldwide, brought together members of EU, UN and OSCE missions in Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Kosovo and elsewhere.
Promoting peace in Tajikistan
International Alert has successfully concluded two EU-funded projects in Tajikistan, one on secular-religious dialogue and the other on the promotion of peaceful behaviour among young people. We held conferences with local stakeholders in the country to review the successes, recommendations and lessons learnt from both projects.
Training on reintegration
International Alert and Transition International recently held an advanced course on reintegration of ex-combatants for a distinguished group of 25 professionals in Landgraaf, the Netherlands.
Training mediators in Kyrgyzstan
International Alert recently oversaw the training of community mediators in Jalal-Abad province in Kyrgyzstan.
SPECIALISED TRAINING COURSE: CONFLICT-SENSITIVE ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN POST-WAR CONTEXTS
Training schools for youth in the South Caucasus
Photo: © International Alert/Jonathan Banks
Application Form for the Reintegration of Ex-Combatants Course (19-26 June 2011)
Reintegration of Ex-Combatants Advanced Training Course
International Alert and Transition International are offering a DDR advanced course on reintegration.
PLEASE NOTE: APPLICATIONS FOR THIS COURSE ARE NOW CLOSED.
Cost: the course is free of charge
Full board accommodation for the duration of the course is included in the cost. Participants have to be able to commit to attend the course in full.
Course description:
South Ossetia psycho-social training project
The repeated recurrences of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict since 1992 following the break-up of the Soviet Union, along with the increasing isolation of South Ossetia from the outside world have resulted in widespread trauma and the destruction of the South Ossetian social fabric. Since the latest flare-up of violent hostilities in August 2008, opportunities for working on issues related to peacebuilding and civil society development in the South Ossetian context have been reduced to a minimum. Enemy images and stereotypes created during wartime are exacerbated by political and media discourses. Meanwhile, the reinforcement of physical borders hinders both social and economic interactions between people, reducing longer-term prospects for peaceful coexistence.
Confidence building in this context must be approached extremely sensitively, as premature efforts can have negative impacts that would set back the prospect for dialogue and normalisation of relations for decades.
International Alert is working with teachers to provide skills in dealing with individual and social trauma, to help them provide adequate support to their pupils, parents and communities. Through a combination of training and "learning by doing", these teachers are offered a wide range of tools that they can use in the classroom and in their communities. They are encouraged to initiate extra-curricular activities and promote problem-solving at a local level in recognition of how self-help and community mobilisation can be a powerful antidote to social trauma.
Location
Alert trains Nepali civil society and media in security issues
International Alert, together with partners Antenna Foundation, Equal Access, Forum for Women, Law and Development, the Institute of Human Rights Communication Nepal and Saferworld, recently held a series of trainings in Security Sector Reform (SSR) for civil society and media representatives in Nepal.
Refugees and internally displaced persons (SPANISH)
Toolkit for Advocacy and Action,
Refugees and internally displaced persons,
Spanish
Refugees and internally displaced persons (PORTUGUESE)
Toolkit for Advocacy and Action,
Refugees and internally displaced persons,
Portuguese
Democracy and Governance (PORTUGUESE)
Toolkit for Advocacy and Action,
Democracy and Governance,
Portuguese
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