Training & Education
Whether you are seeking to improve internal organizational dynamics, interactions between nationals and internationals, dealings between headquarters and the field, or your communication with partners and funders, our Peace Building workshops can help. We offer concrete tools for addressing complex and critical relationships between organizations and local groups, institutions, and governments.
We customize our workshops for any level of staffing within international organizations, NGOs, governments, and other institutions.
Negotiation Skills
Our negotiation workshops provide concrete tools for effective collaborative negotiation.
Issues addressed include how to maximize both “substance” and “relationship” in negotiation, the challenges and benefits of collaboration, a negotiation framework, and communication skills.
Most effective for: national and international staff, headquarters staff, local community and civil society leaders, government professionals.
Mediation
Consensus’ mediation workshops help develop the skills and approaches needed to act as a neutral third party in helping conflicting people reach mutually-acceptable agreements.
Participants learn an eight-stage mediation model, tools for empowering the parties, communication skills, agenda-building and commitment- development skills, and approaches to handle neutrality and power in mediation.
Most effective for: national and international staff, headquarters staff, local community and civil society leaders, government professionals.
Restorative Justice
Consensus’ restorative justice workshops examine a unique and powerful approach to harm and wrongdoing that emphasizes victim empowerment, offender accountability, and community involvement.
Participants develop skills to identify restorative opportunities and options for programming, and analyze cases from a restorative perspective. They practice working with victims, offenders, and communities in a restorative approach, with a strong focus on a victim-centered orientation.
This workshop is intended for organizations and individuals which interact with victims of crime, harm, or violence.
Most effective for: national and international staff, headquarters staff, local community and civil society leaders, faith leaders, government professionals.
Conflict Resolution & Transformation
Consensus’ conflict resolution and transformation workshops develop the skills and approaches needed to effectively address conflicts that arise between people and among groups in organizations and communities. It is built around six conflict resolution core competencies, emphasizing self-awareness, conflict styles communication skills, perspective taking skills, and conflict analysis.
Most effective for: national and international staff, headquarters staff, local community and civil society leaders, government professionals.
Conflict Assessment & Conflict Sensitive Development
Consensus’ Peace Building & Conflict Sensitive Development™ workshop is designed for organizations and professionals working in environments challenged by destructive or violent conflict. It is highly customized, and is particularly suited for organizations delivering development and humanitarian assistance.
Peace Building & Conflict Sensitive Development™ emphasizes three key elements of a conflict sensitive framework:
1. How to foster interaction of development, humanitarian assistance, education, justice and rights, and conflict resolution initiatives for peace building;
2. How to develop capacities to do robust conflict and impact assessment, with a commitment to “Do No Harm”, mitigating potential conflict triggers in projects; and
3. How to identify, strengthen, and capitalize on local “peace capacities” – indigenous resources that must be engaged in the design and implementation of any programming intended to address conflict and support peace.
Most effective for: national and international staff, headquarters staff, and local community and civil society leaders.
