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Overview
Works on division and repair: conflict analysis, dialogue facilitation, reconciliation and intercultural cooperation. Designed for practitioners working across community, faith and identity lines.
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Aims of the Course
- Analyse conflict structurally and relationally
- Design and facilitate dialogue across difference
- Support reconciliation and memory work
- Build intercultural cooperation programmes
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Course Structure
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Conflict Analysis
- Actors, drivers and dynamics
- Identity, grievance and narrative
- Structural versus proximate causes
- Conflict mapping tools
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Dialogue Practice
- Dialogue versus debate
- Designing safe-enough spaces
- Facilitating across deep difference
- Handling rupture and withdrawal
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Reconciliation
- Truth, memory and acknowledgement
- Restorative approaches
- Intergroup contact research
- Ritual and commemoration
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Culture and Cooperation
- Cultural humility in practice
- Arts and sport as contact methods
- Interfaith and intercultural work
- Language and translation politics
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Programme Design
- Theory of change for peacebuilding
- Do No Harm in divided contexts
- Working with spoilers
- Measuring social cohesion
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Practice Project
- Design a dialogue initiative
- Facilitate a session
- Reflection and supervision
- Evaluation and learning
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Learning Outcomes
- 01Produce a structured conflict analysis
- 02Facilitate a dialogue across identity lines
- 03Design a peacebuilding programme with indicators
- 04Apply Do No Harm analysis to an intervention
- 05Evaluate social cohesion outcomes credibly
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Assessment
- Conflict analysis report
- Dialogue facilitation observation
- Programme design and evaluation plan
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Entry Requirements
- Open access; community or facilitation experience helpful
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Progression and Careers
- Dialogue facilitator
- Peacebuilding programme officer
- Community cohesion coordinator