Country: World
Registration deadline: 15 Jan 2020
Starting date: 29 Jan 2020
Ending date: 10 Mar 2020
This e-learning course provides participants with an understanding of how a gender lens is critical to all elements of peacebuilding, conflict resolution and recovery work, initiatives and policy. It outlines the normative framework around women’s rights and peacebuilding, security sector governance, approaches to transitional justice, security policy making and awareness raising on women’s and gender issues. This course uses weekly case studies to illustrate how the normative framework has been put into practice in different regions of the world. Finally, the course takes a critical look at the implementation of the women, peace and security resolutions, including gaps that that make a comprehensive, realistic and effective response to gender, peace and security issues challenging in field as well as in the global discourse. Participants will critically analyse international interventions on peace and security from a women’s rights perspective.
The certificate course involves approximately 30 hours of reading, on-line working groups, webinars, quizzes and a writing assignment, and interaction among students and the instructors, and is offered over an six-week period. The course will integrate active and participatory learning approaches within activities and assignments, with an emphasis on reflective and collaborative learning. The maximum number of course participants is 25. Students who successfully complete the course will receive a Certificate of Participation. It is also possible to audit the course.
Course outline
Week 1. Introduction to women, peace and security
Week 2. The normative framework around women, peace and security
Week 3. The 3 Ps of Women, peace and security: participation, prevention and protection
Week 4. Implementation of the women, peace and security agenda at the international, regional, national and local levels
Week 5. Challenges and lessons learned in implementation
Week 6. Tools and ways forward
How to register:
For more information and online registration: www.hrea.org/women-peace-security