Trainings: Sharing Women’s Contributions to Peace and Security

Training services built on ten years of global experience
Trainings with policymakers, women peace builders, training practitioners, and scholars explore women’s vital contributions to strengthening peace processes and encourage design of practical strategies to increase women’s participation.

Since 1999, Inclusive Security has led trainings with policymakers and peace builders from the United States and from conflict areas including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Colombia, Haiti, Iraq, Israel & Palestine, Jordan, Liberia, Nepal, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and Sudan.

Inclusive Security offers a variety of services including customized design and facilitation of workshops, training of trainer events, and consulting on gender, peace, and security. Workshops vary from overviews of the field of women, peace, and security to exploring women’s role in particular conflict-affected areas and in specific stages of peace building. Specific themes include peace negotiations and agreements, post-conflict reconstruction, disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR), transitional justice, legislation affecting women, democracy and government, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, and skills (advocacy, coalition building, crafting recommendations, message management, and developing strategic plans).

Our methodology is highly interactive and relies heavily upon discussion and work in small groups. We use simulations, interactive exercises, engaging audio-visual presentations, and role-play activities to create a dynamic workshop environment that draws on the expertise of participants.

Workshops build on our publication Inclusive Security: A Curriculum for Women Waging Peace.

Inclusive Security is eager to build training service partnerships with other organizations and to collaborate to develop, coordinate, or facilitate workshops. Please contact our training staff to discuss how our curriculum and methodology can be adapted to meet your organization’s needs.

Examples of our trainings

Colombia
Conducted workshops with the National Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation, including one for Supreme Court magistrates, to ensure gender-sensitive implementation of the Justice and Peace Law.

Central and South America
With the Organization of American States, organized training in Guatemala and Peru for policymakers from 10 countries on gender and peace building.

Nepal
Trained women members of the Nepal’s Constituent Assembly on coalition building in partnership with the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding.

United States
Designed and carried out training for policymakers from civil society, the UN, and the US government on women and demobilization, disarmament, and reintegration for the US Naval Post-Graduate School.

Designed and facilitated women, peace, and security course for Peacebuilding and Development Institute Summer Institute. The week-long “Expanding Participation of Women in Peace Processes” is part of the professional training program at American University and exposes participants to the concept of “inclusive security.”


For more information about our curriculum or to discuss customized training opportunities for your organization, please contact Allison Shean, at +1.617.995.1944 or allison_shean@huntalternatives.org.