The 2-day intensive training programme provides practically applicable education to aspiring students, graduates and policy makers alike. The course will be delivered by a distinguished conflict analyst and researcher who will reflect upon his own experience in the areas of conflict management, conflict prevention and post-conflict rehabilitation measures.

The IPT Specialisation Course on Election Observation is designed to support the development and consolidation of pluralistic, democratic societies through preparing participants for observation and assistance tasks in electoral missions. Topics to be dealt with include different electoral systems, different institutional approaches to election observation, voting and new technologies, elections and election observation in different societies, tasks of Short-Term Observers (STOs), Long-Term Observers (LTOs) and Election Supervisors.

This Master Class supports trainers, facilitators, development- and aid workers, peace workers and gender educators on how to encourage and guide people to re-think culture, gender, race, sexual orientation, social class and more. A special focus is placed on considerations of intersectionality while doing gender and peace, as well as on practice-based learning of intersectional pedagogy.