Interventions
Core Course 2: Strategies for Coexistence Interventions
Spring Semester: Professor Fitzduff
Participants study and develop more effective coexistence interventions for intercommunal conflict. As part of the course, participants study existing theories of social and institutional change, the utilization of a variety of multifaceted approaches to policy and practice interventions in coexistence work. The course also addresses the evaluation of coexistence and conflict interventions.
Course Objectives:
- Enable participants to analyze and match coexistence interventions to contextual needs. This includes an understanding of the appropriate role of structural approaches, such as legislation, equity work, political agreements, human rights necessities, constitutional developments, local community capacity development, structural and policy work and political and developmental approaches, as well as social, dialogue and mediation approaches.
- Ensure awareness of existing theories of social change and other related theories, such as leadership, institutional cultures and dynamics and social group and human needs theories, to draw upon in order to design effective interventions.
- Increase capacity to develop and implement policy and programs within institutions, communities and regions, and at a global level. This includes understanding organizational cultures, pressures on policy makers, differing styles of leverage, the need for partnerships and networks, etc.
- Train participants to undertake monitoring and evaluation processes that can enable them to think more effectively about the best choices in designing interventions and about ‘lessons learned’ and ‘best practice’ models, which are current today in conflict and coexistence interventions.