This training is ideal for practitioners who would want to expand their knowledge of conflict and post conflict settings in Africa and also their skills and knowledge of peacebuilding programming in these two contexts.
Content Overview
- Exploring our conflict and post conflict settings in Africa
In this session, participants will explore various conflict and post conflict countries that will be represented in the training with the aim of having a better understanding of:
- The key issues in the different sectors (social, economic, political and security)
- The complexities
- Identifying peacebuilding opportunities
- Conflict Analysis Tools
This session will introduce participants to different tools of analysis that can enable them improve their understanding of their operating contexts as well as help in informing their peacebuilding programming
- Peacebuilding Programming for conflict & post conflict settings
This session aims at introducing participants to some key programming options that are relevant for conflict and post conflict settings drawing from different frameworks developed for the continent
- Strategic Peacebuilding
This session will involve delving deeper into the concepts of peacebuilding and conflict transformation. There will also be discussions on what entails strategic peacebuilding approaches and how we can integrate them into our programming
- Breaking cycles of violence; Collective trauma and healing
Violence is widespread in conflict and post-conflict settings at individual, community and structural levels. This session will explore how violence at different levels is inter-linked and the healing strategies available at each level and how this can be infused into peacebuilding programming.
- Understanding Conflict sensitivity in peacebuilding programming
This session is aimed at enabling participants appreciate the importance of being conflict sensitive in peacebuilding programming so that their interventions do not exacerbate the conflict or post conflict context
- Gender in conflict and post-conflict settings
This session will outline the gender dimensions in conflict and post conflict settings, introduce participants to the principles of gender mainstreaming and the different tools that they can use to do gender analysis and mainstreaming in their programming
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