Kenya: Training of Trainers in Peacebuilding & Conflict Transformation Course

The Coalition for Peace in Africa (COPA) will conduct her ‘**Training of Trainers in Peacebuilding & conflict transformation Course'** in Nairobi, Kenya from 12^th to 16^th August 2019. The training is targeting 15-20 peacebuilding practitioners who are seeking to expand and refine their knowledge and skills on how to design and facilitate trainings in conflict contexts.

The training is divided into two parts with part one focusing on building competencies in the peacebuilding practice while part two focuses on competencies of a trainer.

At the end of the five days, participants are expected to have gained the most up-to-date knowledge and skills in peacebuilding relevant to African contexts and to be better placed with fundamental skills in conducting trainings in various contexts.
Core thematic areas
Part One (1.5 days):

1. Conflict analysis
2. Theories of peace
3. Strategies of Peacebuilding Interventions

Part Two (3.5 days)

1. Fundamentals in Adult learning Exploring the role of a facilitator/trainer in dynamic contexts
2. Designing a training curriculum
3. Facilitation skills and techniques

4. Evaluating a training programme**Objectives of the training**

5. Deepen participants’ understanding of conflict, peace, conflict analysis and theories of peace.

6. Enhance participants’ knowledge of peacebuilding strategies relevant to their contexts

7. Increase participants’ knowledge and skills on how to design, facilitate and evaluate peacebuilding trainings.**Training/ Learning Methodology and Approach**
   This intensive training will utilize Adult Learning methodology, drawing from Paulo Freire and others. Participants will be required to fully contribute from their knowledge and reflections in peace, development, human rights, gender rights and humanitarian work, amongst other fields.

The learning will be experiential and will engage participants in individual tasks, group tasks, case studies, mini-lectures and role-plays and simulations. The practical elements are designed to help the participants synthesize the learning and make it relevant to their contexts.

Participants will also have the opportunity to design and do 'actual training' facilitation.

Lead facilitator – Dr. Babu Ayindo

Dr. Babu Ayindo has over two decades of experience as a storyteller, teacher, facilitator, researcher and writer. He has taught short courses on arts-based approaches to peacebuilding in seven peacebuilding institutes in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and North America. He holds a B.Ed. from Kenyatta University (Nairobi, Kenya) and M.A in Peace and Conflict Studies from Eastern Mennonite University (Virginia, USA). His PhD from the University of Otago –New Zealand is on Arts, Peacebuilding and Decolonization.

Some of his publications include:

1. Co-authoring When You Are the Peacebuilder (published by United States Institute of Peace, 2001);

2. “Arts Approaches to Peace: Playing Our Way to Transcendence “published in Barry Hart (ed)

3. Peacebuilding in Traumatized Societies (University of America Press, Inc.,2008);

4. “Trauma Awareness and Healing in the Somali Cluster: A Report on the Status of Achievements, Lessons and Outcomes” (published by Pact, 2010);

5. Mpatanishi: A Handbook for Community Based Mediators (published in 2010 by PeaceNet Kenya);

6. In Search of Healers (published by the Coalition of Peace in Africa in 2011).

Selected COPA trainings

1.Gendering Human Security, Peacebuilding & Conflict Transformation Training (2013-2018).

For six years this course has run in Nairobi, Kenya for a range of participants working in peacebuilding, gender, human rights and development in Uganda, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Kenya, South Sudan, Burundi, DRC, Somalia, Somaliland, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mali, Iraq, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Lebanon. The training aims at enabling participants get a broader understanding of the various UNSCRs that are supportive of women participation in peacebuilding processes, UNSCRs that are supportive of initiatives aimed at prevention of gender based violence especially in conflict contexts and Human Rights Instruments that support substantive equality across genders such as CEDAW.

2.Strengthening Policy and Practice; Meeting the challenges of working in complex environments Course (2014-2017)

This training aims at broadening practitioner’s knowledge in linking practice and policy and also in exploring how their work informs policies. It has been held in Entebbe Uganda and in Nairobi, Kenya as a partnership between COPA, Responding to Conflict and Peace Direct-UK. Participants for the course have come from Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Tanzania, Somaliland, UK, Rwanda, Burundi and DRC

3.Monitoring Evaluation, Reporting and Learning, (2015-2018), Nairobi.

This training is ideal for practitioners who are engaged in MERL activities of their programmes. It introduces participants to M/E from a peacebuilding perspective and also introduces them to relevant tools. Participants to the course have in the past come from Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Liberia, Mali, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, DRC, Nigeria, Ghana among other countries

4.Training of Trainers in peacebuilding and conflict transformation, Nairobi (2013-2018):

The training has been held in Arusha, Tanzania and in Nairobi, Kenya for practitioners keen to build their capacities in designing, facilitating and evaluating trainings. Participants have been drawn from Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, DRC, Ethiopia, Comoros, CAR, Djibouti, Ivory Coast and Sudan.

5.Interrupting cycles of violence; Integrating healing and emotional wellbeing into peacebuilding & development initiatives; (2013)

The training aimed at enabling participants to better understand linkages between cycles of violence and unhealed trauma and how it relates to peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Participants were drawn from Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and DRC

Application forms can be obtained from www.copafrica.org. Alternatively they can be requested through trainings@copafrica.org or copa@copafrica.org. All received applications will be acknowledged. If successful a corresponding letter of admission and other necessary documentations will be sent to the applicant.