The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

International organizations increasingly find themselves attempting to carry out traditional development and humanitarian assistance programs and projects in conflict contexts. They are also increasingly carrying out peacebuilding and conflict resolution interventions themselves - activities that were formerly the domain of diplomats. Donors are increasingly requiring that grantees and contractors prove their awareness of the context in which proposed interventions will take place, and show that they have considered and addressed how their interventions will impact the conflict context and how the conflict context will impact their interventions - in order they must demonstrate that their interventions are peace and conflict sensitive or that they have mainstreamed peace and conflict throughout their interventions.

This one day training will enable participants to carry out peace and conflict assessments (PCAs) as part of the planning process for interventions (development, humanitarian assistance, or peacebuilding policies, programs, or projects) in conflict contexts. It will introduce participants to peace and conflict impact assessments (PCIAs) of planned, ongoing, or completed interventions as a first step in mainstreaming peace and conflict sensitivity into their design, implementation, and evaluation.

Trainers

Erin McCandless (Ph.D. American University) and currently adjunct faculty within the New School's Graduate Program of International Affairs, is a specialist in peacebuilding and development with over fifteen years experience working in areas of integrated programme design and management, policy development and advising, research, writing and publishing, teaching and training. She has over nine years experience in conflict and post-conflict recovery contexts globally, with in-depth experience in Africa, working with UN and other intergovernmental organizations, donors and many nongovernmental organizations. Her areas of specialization include: peacebuilding and development related strategic frameworks, conflict sensitivity, inter-agency and UN Mission coordination, civil-society-government and donor relations, governance related capacity-building, addressing post-conflict war economy challenges, poverty reduction strategy processes, evaluation methods - in particular peace, conflict impact assessment related.

Dr. Mary Hope Schwoebel has over 25 years experience in the fields of development, humanitarian assistance, and peacebuilding. She has worked for UN organizations, donors, NGOs, and research institutions in Africa, South America, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. For the past decade she has worked as a consultant conducting peace and conflict assessments (PCAs) and peace and conflict impact assessments (PCIAs) around the world. She has taught peace and conflict studies courses at Georgetown and George Mason University. She has a Masters in international development from the University of California, Davis, and a PhD from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR).

**This day long workshop is open to all, but you must RSVP. There are a limited number of spaces (around 20) and spots are first come first serve! You will receive an email confirmation if you registered for the event by April 8th. Also, if you sign up and later find that you can not attend, please cancel your registration on the GPIA.info site on the event announcement page for the workshop or by emailing jenmhill@gmail.com.