About the training

“Only through the profound and correct understanding of the nature of conflicts, their specificities in terms of challenges and dynamics and, the recognition of their underlying causes, it is possible to provide adequate and impactful responses.”
– United Nations System Staff College.

The training employed a systemic approach, integrating theory and practice to increase participants’ understanding of conflicts and interventions, and enhance their capacities in planning successful interventions (e.g., projects in their communities).

Outcomes of the training

The training:

• Provided a better understand international security and conflicts from a human security perspective.
• Allowed participants to develop conflict-sensitive, sustainable and people-centered strategies for interventions, conflict management and conflict resolution.
• Increased participants’ knowledge about conflict negotiations and mediation.

Trainer

Billy Batware

Billy is an expert in international security with personal and professional experience and expertise in conflict resolution. He is a certified trainer and works for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna where he is responsible for transnational organized crime projects. After leaving his country Rwanda in 1994 where he experienced conflicts first-hand, Billy studied diplomacy and international security in Vienna, Austria and lived and worked in conflict-affected countries. Billy has been conducting conflict analysis trainings since 2012 and has trained more than 300 people from all over the world. Billy is a guest lecturer of international security and development, a regular speaker at international conferences and the founder of several human security initiatives namely the United for Education and Sustainable Futures, Regional Academy on the United Nations, and International Security and Conflict Analysis Network.