Over the last decade there has been a growing realization that peacebuilding, development, and humanitarian assistance sometimes feed conflict rather than alleviate it, and that they sometimes exacerbate tensions. This has led to the development of tools to understand the relationship between programming and conflict. This course is designed to equip participants with the skills, knowledge and attitudes to analyze, develop and apply strategies to deal with the complexities of providing assistance, development and peacebuilding with better outcomes for the societies where assistance is provided.
Participants will be introduced to frameworks of analysis for reducing complexity and managing uncertainty; conflict sensitive approaches, strategies for integrating these approaches into their programming. The main goal of this module is to introduce participants to the ideas, concepts and approaches of conflict sensitivity and Do No Harm in order to improve and enhance their values and principles to understanding, application and monitoring of conflict-sensitive programming. At the end of the week, the participants are expected to: 1. Understand the relevance of conflict sensitivity within the framework of their organizational work, even where it may appear foreign to the fields of intervention. 2. Situate conflict sensitivity within program and organizational policies and operations. 3. See conflict sensitivity as not necessarily a new approach, or an additional component to organizational work