Courses for Week 3
July 2 - 7, 2007
For students, each class is worth 2 credits.
Choose from one of these three courses:
* Course I: Building Monitoring and Evaluation into Program Operations: Methods for Peace Builders and Development Workers
with Sarah Cohen
This training will provide participants with the opportunity to analyze and understand the role that M&E plays in shaping three projects in conflict affected countries. Participants will work with these projects and design their own M&E framework. At the end of the course participants will have the opportunity to compare their work with donor funded projects and successful M&E frameworks currently used in conflict contexts. The course will focus heavily on participatory approaches to M&E and will also address the complexity of measuring change in conflict dynamics, identifying reasonable measures of impact, and working with local populations to achieve results. A special emphasis will be placed on conflict sensitive M&E approaches and the importance of conflcit analysis and information when designing work in conflict zones.
This training course will be highly interactive in nature and incorporate “real-time” interventions that may be impacted by some of the decisions participants make. Participants will also have the opportunity to meet with some folks from the implementing Agencies and talk about the challenges on the ground related to M&E.
* Course II: Youth, Conflict & Peacebuilding
with L. Randolph Carter
Designed for both development workers engaging youth in their work, and students interested in understanding youth agency in peacebuilding, this course will explore the inter-relationship between youth and conflict, as well as their integral roles as agents in peacebuilding and development initiatives. The course will use a combination of theory-based research and discussions with current practitioners to cover areas such as youth and policy, effective methods of youth engagement, the “livelihood” factor, and youth as social entrepreneurs.
* Course III: Positive Approaches to Peacebuilding & Development
with Mark Chupp and Claudia Liebler
This interactive and practical course is for participants who enjoy a creative learning environment that encourages "out of the box" thinking and experimentation. The course will introduce participants to some of the most innovative approaches for change of our times that have application for both peacebuilders and development practitioners. It will draw on the book Positive Approaches to Peacebuilding: A Resource for Innovators. Positive approaches are having success in building common vision among diverse stakeholders, mobilizing elements of a community, building improbable partnerships, eliciting cooperation where none has existed before, and focusing participants on the positive change core existing in every human system.
