Strong communities are built on trust, relationships, and the ability to manage difference peacefully — and development that ignores social cohesion can do unintended harm. This advanced program equips practitioners to strengthen social capital, build social cohesion, and integrate peacebuilding into community development in divided and fragile contexts.
Designed for an international audience, the course integrates social cohesion theory, conflict sensitivity, the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, and peacebuilding practice. Participants will gain the analytical and programming skills to build cohesion and contribute to peace through development.
Course Objectives
Upon the successful completion of this program, attendees will be able to:
- Understand social capital and cohesion
- Analyse social fabric and divisions
- Apply conflict analysis
- Apply conflict-sensitive programming
- Design social cohesion interventions
- Build bridging and linking social capital
- Integrate peacebuilding into development
- Apply the humanitarian-development-peace nexus
- Work in fragile and divided contexts
- Strengthen local peace infrastructure
- Support reconciliation and dialogue
- Address grievances and exclusion
- Apply do-no-harm rigorously
- Measure cohesion and peace outcomes
- Sustain cohesion gains
- Apply emerging trends in cohesion and peacebuilding
Course Outline
- Module 1: Social Capital & Cohesion
- Module 2: Analysing Social Fabric & Divisions
- Module 3: Conflict Analysis
- Module 4: Conflict-Sensitive Programming
- Module 5: Designing Social Cohesion Interventions
- Module 6: Bridging & Linking Social Capital
- Module 7: Integrating Peacebuilding into Development
- Module 8: The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
- Module 9: Working in Fragile & Divided Contexts
- Module 10: Local Peace Infrastructure
- Module 11: Reconciliation & Dialogue
- Module 12: Addressing Grievances & Exclusion
- Module 13: Applying Do-No-Harm Rigorously
- Module 14: Measuring Cohesion & Peace Outcomes
- Module 15: Emerging Trends: Cohesion & Peacebuilding
Who Should Attend
This advanced course is designed for an international audience of peacebuilding and social cohesion advisers, programme managers, and senior practitioners working in fragile, conflict-affected, and divided contexts. Relevant experience is assumed.
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