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Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future. 

On the transfer, co-founder Victoria Martin expressed her pleasure to see this work continue under Wits' leadership, knowing that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction. 

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Introduction To Conflict Management

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ACCORD is the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes, and for over ten years they have been active throughout the African continent building capacity in government, business and civil society to transform destructive conflicts and build security.

Accord offers training courses on conflict management. Within their training approach they attempt to bring African solutions to African challenges and make a point of using African methodologies, resources and experience.

This ACCORD training manual on Conflict Management gives insight into the content of the workshop on Conflice Management and the methodology of the training undertaken by the organisation.

The manual consists of the following sections:
  • Module 1: Understanding conflict

  • Unit 1: Towards a definition of conflict 1
    Unit 2: Analysing conflict

  • Module 2: Responding to conflict

  • Unit 3: Styles of dealing with conflict
    Unit 4: Approaches to dealing with conflict
    Unit 5: Methods for dealing with conflict

  • Module 3: Skills and techniques for dealing with conflict
  • Unit 6: Foundational skills for dealing with conflict
    Unit 7: Negotiation
    Unit 8: Mediation
    Unit 9: Agreements
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English
Number of Pages
29
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Accord website on September 2006.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/17/2006 - 03:48 Permalink

Very user friendly will use it more in my work with conflict resolution