Training and Learning

Toolkit for Advocacy and Action,

Peace support operations (ARABIC)

library: 

TKPeaceSupportOperationsARABIC.pdf

Toolkit for Advocacy and Action,

Peace negotiations and Agreements (SPANISH)

library: 

TKPeaceNegotiationsSPANISH.pdf

Toolkit for Advocacy and Action,

Human Rights,

Arabic

Report

Toolkit for Advocacy and Action,

Key international policies and legal mechanisms,

Arabic

Paper

From the 9th-12th of January 2011, International Alert hosted the third in a series of training courses for teachers from South Ossetia in Amsterdam.

International Alert, together with partners Equal Access Nepal and Youth Action Nepal, recently completed a training course in Nepal for interns who will be responsible for undertaking research on Nepali youth’s experiences and perceptions of current security challenges and responses.

Between 25th-29th March 2010 International Alert held an Armenian-Azerbaijani Youth Peace Forum in Amman, Jordan. 25 participants from across the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict divide travelled to Jordan to meet with counterparts from the other side.

The young Armenians and Azerbaijanis took part in training workshops as well as in interactive exercises. The trainers and the facilitators of the Youth Forum were representatives of the older generation of peace activists who have been working in the region with Alert for more than a decade.

Conflict-sensitive approaches to development and humanitarian interventions were the focus of a recent training course conducted by International Alert for senior programme staff from UNDP, UNICEF and UNRCO in Nepal.

Aiming to introduce a practical set of tools for programme staff to integrate into operations at a field level, the course imparted knowledge on how to identify conflict risks and impacts, mitigating steps and recognising potential opportunities.

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 South Ossetian social fabric. In particular, since the latest flare-up of violent hostilities in August 2008, working on such a prolonged and deep conflict requires an extremely careful and balanced approach based on the principle of “do no harm”.

Who?
Trevor Maisiri

Background

As the current coordinator of the European Group on Training (EGT), International Alert recently launched a new website containing programmes of courses and new training resources.

Who?
My name is Hannah Simon. I am from Switzerland and I am currently in the process of completing my second masters degree in the UK.

Background

Initiative for Peacebuilding (IfP), a consortium supported by the European Union and led by International Alert, recently launched six synthesis papers which summarise lessons learnt, conclusions and recommendations drawn from evidence-based research conducted in the last year and a half by Alert and its partners.

Who?
Clara Barré

Background
Institute of Political Sciences – Grenoble (France)
Masters Degree in International Economy – Paris Dauphine University (France)
Internship at the United Nations Department for Social and Economic Affairs – New York (USA)
Volunteering for an NGO - Kolkatta (India)
Working for a microfinance organisation – (Paris)

Which course did you attend?
Introduction to working in conflict in November 2008.

International Alert’s Training and Learning Team recently held a four-day training course on Conflict Sensitivity for Development and Humanitarian Organisations, aimed at helping such organisations to include the “conflict” dimension into their work.