Online Course: Deepening our Peace Practice

Format

This is an online part time course. There will be 3-hour live sessions on Mondays and Thursdays from 10:00 (CEST/CET) to 13:00 (CEST/CET). In addition to these 6 hours of live sessions per week, participants should plan with 4 hours for self-paced learning and group work.

Content

This online course offers a mixture of established and emerging approaches, concepts and tools in current practices of peace work, which can also be applied in the related fields of development and humanitarian work.

The modules that build the core pillars of the course are:

• Power and Identity
• Systemic Thinking in Peacebuilding
• Environment, People, and Conflict
• Steering stakeholder processes
• Programming for better impact

Through this selection of approaches the course supports experts from the peace as well as the humanitarian and development sector in a conflict-sensitive program work. The systems-based understanding of conflicts and of the work within these form the center of the course, in which the lenses of intersectionality and environmental dimensions are integrated.

Almost all peace projects build on local networks, partners and stakeholders to put new developments and concepts into practice. Therefore, the collaboration, and creation of meaningful participation in dynamic contexts with high power asymmetries and shrinking spaces are key for the successful peace work. Changing the focus, the course seeks to provide insights on how to mainstream new approaches into project work, providing best practices and space for in peer exchange.

Training methodology

As with all our courses, we follow an elicitive learning approach that favors the exchange of experiences and takes the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our participants into account.  

Requirements for participation

• At least 3 years’ field experience (preferably in project design, implementation and monitoring)

• Working knowledge or familiarity with peacebuilding and conflict transformation, as well as Do No harm and PME

• Ability to devout at least 10 hours per week for the online learning

• Willingness to share their experiences and exchange with the participants, and engage in groups

• Fluent spoken English and ability to actively participate in an online discussion/discourse

• High-quality stable internet connection (at least 1 Mbit download/upload), a computer with functioning camera and microphone and an updated version of Google Chrome.