Peacebuilding: Strengthening Policy and Practice

Responding to Conflict (RTC) is conducting a five-day course on Peacebuilding: Strengthening Policy and Practice from 17-21 November 2008 in Birmingham, UK.

Peacebuilding: Strengthening Policy and Practice is designed to assist participants to identify constructive ways of engaging with the unpredictable and rapidly changing circumstances within which many relief and development agencies work. It focuses on the relationship between policy and practice in complex situations.

The course will enable participants to develop constructive ways to develop policies for appropriate responses in complex political situations.  It will draw on the experience of participants and tutors to examine the key issues that are emerging from the field. 

The course will help participants to

• Deepen their understanding of peacebuilding, from a conflict transformation perspective, as it applies to their work 
• Apply appropriate tools of conflict analysis to their own situations 
• Explore the relationship between policy and practice in situations of instability, conflict or violence 
• Examine issues relating to aid and conflict in order to develop conflict sensitive policies – going beyond Do No Harm 
• Consider the key policy and practice issues relating to conflict prevention and peacebuilding

Dates: 17–21 November 2008

Location: Birmingham, UK

Course Fee: £970

Application Form: Click here. 

Completed application forms should be emailed to courses@respond.org.

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