Navigating the Humanitarian, Development, and Peace Nexus (HDP Nexus) means balancing different mandates, operational approaches, and ambitions while ensuring your work Does No Harm to actively contributing to peace and social cohesion. This course equips participants with the practical tools and frameworks to do both: applying a conflict-sensitive lens across all pillars of the Nexus and identifying concrete entry points to strengthen the "P" of the Nexus in practice. Throughout the course, participants apply their learning directly to their past or current contexts they have worked in.
Registration Dates:
🐦 Early Bird: until 24 August 2026 (10 % Discount) ⏰ Registration Deadline: 5 October 2026
Training Schedule:
💻 Online Live Sessions: 19 October to 30 November 2026, every Monday from 13:00 to 15:00 CEST/CET
Content
Practitioners working in fragile and conflict-affected contexts increasingly recognise that humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding interventions can unintentionally reinforce conflict dynamics if they are not, as a minimum requirement, designed and implemented to Do No Harm, applying a conflict-sensitive lens. At the same time, within the HDP Nexus approach, collaboration across the 3 pillars and sectors requires navigating different mandates and operational approaches, while also asking how interventions can Do More Good: by strengthening exisiting or potential local capacities to address underlying drivers of conflict and long-standing grievances, strengthening social cohesion, improving trust between individuals, populations, communities and institutions, and contributing to pathways towards sustainable peace.
This course addresses this gap by introducing a dual lens:
Working IN conflict: applying conflict sensitivity and Do No Harm to ensure interventions do not exacerbate tensions, exclusion, or conflict dynamics.
Working ON conflict: moving beyond Do No Harm toward Do More Good by identifying practical entry points for adapting humanitarian and development action, and collaboration along each of the Nexus pillars.
Participants will gain hands-on, practical tools to analyse conflict dynamics, strengthen programme design, and identify Nexus-supportive collaboration opportunities in their own contexts that reinforce resilience, social cohesion, as well as sustainable outcomes. Furthermore, they will critically reflect on how mandates, positionality and power dynamics shape project decisions, collaboration and understandings of peace.
Key concepts
Conflict Sensitivity / Do No Harm
Do More Good / Peace-responsive action
Working IN Conflict vs Working ON Conflict
External vs Internal Conflict Sensitivity
Humanitarian–Development–Peace (HDP) Nexus
Capacities for Peace
Resilience and Social cohesion: horizontal and vertical
Nexus-supportive collaboration
Learning objectives
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
understand the mandates, rationales and operational approaches in the HDP Nexus and how humanitarian, development, and peace actors each can contribute to sustainable peace.
conduct the basic elements of a conflict and peace analysis and reflect on considerations for a joined-up and collaborative analysis and planning process;
apply a conflict-sensitive Do-No-Harm lens to programme design and planning, monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) processes, identifying risks that may reinforce conflict dynamics and adapting interventions toward peace-responsive, socially cohesive goals that contribute to collective outcomes;
identify practical entry points for Nexus-supportive collaboration across humanitarian, development, and peace actors and for strengthening the peace dimension within the Nexus.
Who can register for this training?
The training is designed for:
Practitioners working in humanitarian, development, or peacebuilding contexts
Programme managers, advisors, and technical specialists
Staff working in fragile and conflict-affected settings
Individuals seeking to strengthen their ability to integrate conflict sensitivity and peace-responsive approaches into their work
We prioritise smaller class sizes to promote interactive exchanges and the integration of your own practical experiences. Therefore we limit the number of spaces to a maximum of 20 participants. Register early to reserve your place!
Do you have questions about this training? Our team is happy to assist you. Please do not hesitate to contact me: selena.gould@propeace.de
Methodology
The training uses a participatory and experiential learning approach, combining short conceptual inputs with interactive discussions, group exercises, scenario-based learning, and peer exchange. Participants work throughout the course on their own real-life programme or operational context, applying tools and frameworks step-by-step to ensure practical relevance and immediate applicability.
Workload & Deliverables
To successfully complete the training, participants are expected to:
Active participation and full attendance in at least five of the seven live sessions
Complete a personal reflection on whether their work focuses on Do No Harm or also Do More Good.
Conduct elements of conflict and peace scan of their chosen context.
Carry out a conflict-sensitivity audit scan, covering both internal and external dimensions.
Identify a Nexus-supportive collaboration opportunity and a peace-responsive entry point.
Contribute to a group capstone presentation, podcast-style or similar.
After a successful participation, participants receive a certificate and become part of our alumni network.
Total expected weekly hours: 5 to 6 hours per week
Registration
Ready to go? We are looking forward to your participation:
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The participation fee is paid by invoice. Any bank or transfer fees that may apply must be borne by the participant.
Participants should have an adequate internet connection (1 Mbit down/upload or better) to take part in this training. A headset is highly recommended.
