13-14 October 2022 | Executive training
This course introduces participants to available tools for settling international conflicts and examines their effectiveness in the context of contemporary conflict settings.
Most currently-available conflict management tools were developed in the wake of the Second World War, in an international system vastly different from the current one. Technological progress has brought about new ways to engage in international conflicts – methods unknown to the drafters of the UN Charter and other documents that built the foundation for the current conflict management architecture.
Participants will examine if and how these tools are still applicable and effective in a world where cyber threats, hybrid war, intra-state conflict and powerful non-state actors have emerged in recent times as phenomena threatening international peace and security. Participants will get an overview of the classic tools of mediation and negotiation in the context of multinational bodies and organisations and will at the same time analyse under which circumstances these classic tools are still effective in "new wars", as well as where they may need to be updated or complemented with new instruments.
Using a model case built on ongoing international conflicts, participants will take part in practical exercises in conflict analysis, mediation, multilateral negotiation and the development of modern peace operations.
This seminar is offered as part of the Executive MPA programme and in the open enrolment programme and can be taken as part of the ETGN certificate programme.
Instructor
- Wolfgang Sporrer , Adjunct
