Module 6: Advancing Our Institutions

Module 5: Conflict Interventions: Peacekeeping, Peace Support Operations, Military Interventions and Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development

Module 5 focuses on conflict interventions in the theatre of conflict, including peacekeeping, peace support operations, post-conflict reconstruction and development, focusing on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. The module seeks to examine the major trends that have an impact on peace support operations (PSOs) in Africa, in general, and more specifically in the SADC region. The Module will provide an opportunity to reflect on the changing nature of conflict in Africa and to examine how PSOs are being affected by this dynamic. 

Module 4: The practice of peacemaking: Diplomacy, negotiation, mediation and associated forms of conflict resolution

Focusing on diplomacy, mediation and negotiation as practiced by regional and sub-regional organisations, this module aims at equipping participants with key information, concepts and practical know-how needed for the design of a specific type of intervention for a given situation, including recommendations of a technical and operational nature.