Resources and training facilities

The following organisations provide a variety of training opportunities. This list is merely indicative, and there are hundreds of other organisations and trainers that offer a variety of opportunities. Agencies and individuals should explore in detail the nature and contents of any training to ensure that it adequately meets their specific needs.

Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation (CIIAN), a Canadian organisation dedicated to the prevention and resolution of destructive conflict at the local, national and international levels. CIIAN provides individual courses, certificate programmes and professional designations. For further information, please call (001) 613.237.9050 or see their website at http:// www.ciian.org

Coalition for Peace in Africa (COPA), an African membership organisation, organises skills trainings and workshops on conflict transformation for development, human rights and humanitarian practitioners. For further information, please call +27 11 331 2944 (South Africa) or +254 2 577 558 (Kenya) or e-mail enquires@actionsupport.co.za. There is a sister organisation in Asia – Action Asia e-mail: ActionAsia@online.com.ch

Cooperation for Peace and Unity (CPAU), an NGO network in Afghanistan, offers training courses on Working With Conflict and Do No Harm and has developed a training curriculum for development and humanitarian NGOs working in Afghanistan. For further information, please call +92 (0) 91 5701763 (Peshawar office), or +93 (0) 70278891 (Kabul office) or e-mail sulnad@brain.net.pk

Eastern Mennonite University hosts a Summer Peacebuilding Institute with courses in conflict transformation and peacebuilding. For further details, see web site: http://www.emu.edu/ctp/spinow2.html

Field Diplomacy Initiative, an NGO based in Leuven, Belgium, provides training courses in field diplomacy and conflict impact assessment. For further details, see web site: http://www.fielddiplomacy.be

Institute for Conflict Resolution (INCORE) at the University of Ulster, and the United Nations University (UNU), offer summer courses in second track diplomacy, conflict transformation and evaluation and impact assessment of peacebuilding programmes. For further information, please contact Fiona Barr: school@incore.ulst.ac.uk or visit web site: http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk

Peaceworkers UK, a London based NGO, provides links to education and training programmes aimed at enhancing the skills of civilians working in regions affected by conflict. A UK Training Directory can be downloaded from: http://www.peaceworkers.org.uk

Responding to Conflict (RTC), a Birmingham based NGO, offers conflict training courses for humanitarian and development practitioners. See web site for further information: http://www.respond.org

On-line sources of further information on training opportunities are available from UNOCHA at ReliefWeb http://www.reliefweb.int/training and also from  www.conflictsensitivity.org

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