Organization: Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Registration deadline: 22 Jun 2018
Starting date: 29 Sep 2018
Ending date: 07 Oct 2018
The course introduces participants to the psychosocial dimensions of peace building. The course begins with a broad introduction to the topic, allowing time for participants to share their practical background, and goes on to focus on the key psychosocial issues of fear, trauma and grief. These issues are explored conceptually and practically, and their relevance, not simply for so-called specialized staff, but for everyone, is emphasized. Further, the course takes up key conflictive issues that shape the praxis of international cooperation and humanitarian work, as well as the social reality of people living in conflict, namely, the topics of reality assessment, recognition, resilience and vulnerability, and equality and difference. The course then discusses relevant issues of organizations and relationships between international and local staff and concludes with the introduction of a tool useful in the analysis of projects’ psychosocial conflict reality from an active “do no harm” perspective. Throughout the training, practical examples are shared by the trainers. Participants are invited to share their own experiences and to facilitate case examples the group can work on.
Course lecturers: David Backer and Kate Sheese
How to register:
Please, apply ONLINE and attach the requested supporting documents for our admission board.
The following link leads you to our online application form for our IPT Courses 2018: https://www.tfaforms.com/4608060
To complete the application, you will be asked to upload:
Your Curriculum Vitae
A recent photograph
A scan of the data page of your passport
Please upload these documents in one file - the file name should be your "family name, first name".