2006/2007
Consultancy Highlights
American Friends Service Committee/ Jordan
RTC was commissioned to work in collaboration with RTC's Israel/Palestine programme partners and the American Friends Service committee to run two workshops aimed at increasing participant's skills and confidence in dealing with community conflict. This formed part of AFSC's regional project, ‘Research in Action: Alternative Community Security'.
Forum for Conflict Transformation/ Strasburg
Facilitation of a session attended by fifteen experts, youth workers and trainers who shared experiences and insights on the role of youth work in conflict transformation.
American Friends Service Committee Middle East Regional Office (MERO)/ Amman
‘VIOLENT CONFLICT AND SECURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST'
RTC facilitated a round table consultation, bringing together actors in the region.
The objectives were to:
- Develop deeper understandings of the impact of current political developments in the Arab world
- Develop a better understanding of civil society's capacity to work in conflict environments.
- Develop recommendations for collective or individual civil society responses to help develop relevant peace building, conflict prevention and/or advocacy programs.
Huron University/ Amman
RTC devised a postgraduate module on ‘Practical Concepts and Techniques of Conflict Resolution' for Huron University postgraduate students during their field experience assignment.
* RTC, Huron University, and the Regional Centre for Conflict Prevention (RCCP) in Amman collaboration.
Conflict Resolution training/ Bahrain
Two-day initial training in conflict resolution for key people in the military, government and the royal court.
* RTC/ Huron University collaboration
Evaluation for Misereor and Bread for the World/ Mumbai
Evaluation of the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), Mumbai of their programmes focusing on countering the rise of communalism in India.
UNDP/ Sudan
RTC was invited by the German Development Service under their Civil Peace Service Programme to train twenty-seven Sudanese men and women in peace building strategies for five days in Amarat, Sudan.