Training Services
“The training conducted by Inclusive Security imparted to me knowledge that continues to facilitate my work. The trainings were customized to local circumstance and specific issues, facilitating a forum of all stakeholders to share information, knowledge and experiences in the field.”
- Betty Amongi, Member of Parliament, Uganda Ten Years of Global Experience
Since 1999, Inclusive Security has worked with hundreds of women leaders in conflict areas worldwide, providing skills and knowledge to lead peace-building efforts at the local, national, and international levels.
Inclusive Security has conducted trainings for peace builders and policy-makers from conflict areas including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Colombia, Haiti, Iraq, Israel & Palestine, Jordan, Liberia, Northern Ireland, Peru, Rwanda and Sudan.
We offer a variety of services including customized design and facilitation of workshops, training of trainer events, and consulting on gender, peace, and security.
Our unique approach integrates skills building—advocacy, coalition building, and message management—with teaching on peace building, development, and security around topics such as negotiations, transitional justice, post-conflict reconstruction, and security-sector reform.
A Curriculum Created by Practitioners
Our customized services build on our 2009 publication, Inclusive Security: A Curriculum for Women Waging Peace. This unique tool draws on more than a decade of original research, advocacy, and training by staff and accomplished women peace builders.
Highly interactive modules—with training plans, activity guides, PowerPoint presentations with lecture notes, videos, and role-playing exercises that simulate real-world peace processes—foster strong coalitions, enhance problem solving,
bolster confidence, and most significantly, result in a concrete agenda for advancing women’s leadership in peace and security.
Examples of Our Work
Afghanistan
Held seven consultations, including two co-sponsored by NATO and the Afghan Foreign Ministry, on increasing women’s engagement in security sector reform.
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.
Colombia
Conducted workshops with the National Commission on Reparations and Reconciliation, including one for Supreme Court magistrates to ensure gender-sensitive implementation of the Justice and Peace Law.
Iraq
Hosted the first delegation of Iraqi women leaders to the US in collaboration with the American Bar Association, US Institute of Peace, and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, followed by field training funded by the National Endowment for Democracy and others.
Liberia
Organized with the World Bank and UN Development Fund for Women a gender symposium in conjunction with their Partners’ Forum that brought the priorities of women to bilateral and multilateral aid agencies worldwide.
Nepal
Trained women members of Nepal’s Constituent Assembly on coalition building in partnership with the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding.
Sri Lanka
Trained high-level women leaders with the International Civil Society Action Network and the Harvard Program on Negotiation in preparation for peace negotiations.
Sudan
With Norwegian Government support, fostered a national coalition of leaders to support the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and trained the Government of National Unity’s parliamentary women’s caucus.
United States
Designed and carried out training for policy-makers from civil society, the UN, and US Government on women and demobilization, disarmament and reintegration for the US Naval Post-Graduate School.
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.
