Specialised (Re)integration Training Course

Specialised (Re)integration Training Course The course is organised by Barcelona International Peace Center (BIPC) jointly with Transition International (TI), and will take place in Barcelona, Spain. December 6 at 08:00 – December 13 at 17:00 Several… Read More »Specialised (Re)integration Training Course

December 6 at 08:00 - December 13 at 17:00

Specialised (Re)integration Training Course

The course is organised by Barcelona International Peace Center (BIPC) jointly with Transition International (TI), and will take place in Barcelona, Spain.

December 6 at 08:00 – December 13 at 17:00

Several (re)integration, resilience, self-reliance and community security interventions usually occur in parallel, tend to create further divisions in the communities, and often do not create lasting results in terms of sustainable reintegration. Mostly, separate programmes are provided for children which, in many cases, are not linked to the adults’ (re)integration programmes, reducing opportunities for the effective use of pooled resources, and having young people falling in the cracks. Further, programmes are often highly centralised and thereby do not adequately respond to local contexts, nor empower local actors to plan, execute, and own the processes.

This course explores these dynamics and proposes different means to build bridges between the different approaches, programmes and its target groups. It explores needed interventions to foster durable solutions, working on the reintegration environment and absorption capacities, including through enhancing local security and stability, local economic and social development, increase in service delivery of the duty bearers, and support to the (re)integration of the different groups in their receiving communities.

The course further explores responding to new realities, new frameworks, approaches and practices, including on (re)integration and prevention in ongoing conflicts, disengagement and reintegration of people coming out of from extremist groups, applying the Humanitarian, Development and Peace triple nexus to reintegration programming, conflict sensitivity, localisation, environmental security, conflict transformation etc. In short, the course explores with the participants, innovative approaches for more comprehensive, context and community driven (re)integration, resilience, and community security programming.

Objectives

The course will allow participants to assess specificities of different programming contexts, to develop informed and coherent programmatic responses, and to design context-driven socio-economic (re)integration support programmes. The overall objectives of the course are to:

Create a common understanding of the existing frameworks and approaches to (re)integration of ex-combatants, children formally associated to armed forces and groups, returnees and resettled people, and other conflict affected people in need of reintegration assistance, and build bridges between the participants coming from these different entry fields.
Share lessons learned and explore ways to provide effective integrated (re)integration support, working with communities, authorities, the private sector, civil society, international organisations and donors.
Discuss the potential linkages of (re)integration to broader programming on the environment in which reintegration and prevention of further recruitment and forced displacement takes place, such as community security, local economic development, Child Protection systems strengthening, service delivery, political participation, conflict transformation etc.
Obtain the tools to effectively assess local contexts and conflict dynamics, profiles of communities and people in need of reintegration assistance, and how to translate these into the design of conflict sensitive and locally-led reintegration support, while working within national or regional frameworks.
Explore implementation modalities and practise with tools to design and implement context driven social, economic and political reintegration programming.
Learn how to address cross-cutting issues, including natural resource management, gender, disability and age responsiveness and capacity development of local service providers.
Share experiences and explore reintegration opportunities and challenges of people coming from groups listed as terrorist organisations.
Explore and share lessons learned on Community Based (Re)integration and Security (CBRS): an integrated locally-led reintegration model that includes community security and information, counselling, and referral systems.

The course is designed to benefit government officials of locations where (re)integration programming is relevant, civil society and private sector actors of these countries, and staff from donor, UN, INGOs, research institutes supporting these processes.