Learn how to make your program more effective in fragile contexts.

Theories of change help aid workers and peacebuilders to make their programs more effective, but they are rarely used to their full potential. Creating a detailed logic of intervention helps to identify gaps in programming, highlight assumptions that need to be tested and provide a sound base for strategic choices that can increase impact. This training focuses on how 'good' theories of change can be created to support practitioners gain an in-depth understanding of the change their programs trigger.

Despite increased international pressure and action to prevent violent conflicts and mass atrocities after the shocks of Rwanda and Srebrenica in the 1990s, the number of armed conflicts has increased in recent years. Whilst the wars in Syria, South Sudan or Ukraine differ with respect to the actors, driving factors and dynamics, they all raise the question of how violence and its escalation could have been prevented.

Das Institut für Konfliktbearbeitung und Friedensentwicklung (ICP) bietet zum achten Mal den Weiterbildungsgang „Die Kunst der Konfliktbearbeitung“ an, der zur Anerkennung als zertifizierte Mediatorin oder Mediator berechtigt. Der eineinhalb Jahre dauernde Weiterbildungsgang, der im April 2018 beginnt, fokussiert neu auf interkulturelle und internationale Mediation, die in Zukunft immer mehr an Bedeutung gewinnt. Dabei legen wir den entwicklungspolitischen Schwerpunkt der Friedensarbeit auf den afrikanischen Kontinent.