POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN PEACE AND HUMANITARIAN ACTION

Post Graduate Diploma in Peace and Humanitarian Action

Course Overview

Poor governance, insecurity, and the illusive peace are the biggest hindrances to growth in a nation. The effects of bad governance, insecurity, and elusive peace produce a wide range of issues that impede growth in the majority of African nations. Indeed, the breakdown of peace and the resulting conflicts are a recurrent occurrence that have an impact on many facets of human civilisation. The root causes of conflict and the threat to peace are numerous and complicated, and they have unfavourable effects on the stability of human civilisation. As a result, one of the biggest challenges facing the globe today, especially in Africa, is recognising the complex and interconnected causes of violence and conflict as well as setting up the conditions for transitioning from an authoritarian to a democratic and peaceful culture. Conflict resolution, security, and peacebuilding stakeholders need.

The stabilisation and growth of society depend on society’s ability to build peace and resolve conflicts. The programme in peace and conflict studies educates professionals who may contribute to a lasting peace between various populations. Human nature completely predisposes us to conflict and seeks to reconcile it. Because of this, attempts to end hostilities in general and armed conflicts in particular may be traced back to the appearance of humans on the planet. Humans can be seen as a common factor in the development of military conflicts in human society. Up until the present, the most cutting-edge weapons have been deployed in armed confrontations, and these tactics and means have merely changed. The study of military wars is important because they have resulted in many human tragedies.

Course Content

• Introduction to Peace Operations

• Milestones in UN Peacekeeping

• Understanding Conflict and Conflict Analysis

• Conflict Resolution

• Human Security in Post-Conflict Intervention

• Transitional Justice and Peace-building

• Natural Resources Management

• Women and Peace-building

• Leadership in Peace Operations

• Protection of Civilians in Peace Operations

• International humanitarian law: a refresher

• Human rights in armed conflicts

• The protection of civilians: challenges and trends

• Peace operations, human rights and humanitarian law

• Humanitarian action and humanitarian law

• International criminal jurisdiction and armed conflicts

• Research Project

Certification

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be issued a certificate.