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Call for Applications: Training of Trainers "Together for Transformation: Gender-sensitive Nonviolence for Sustainable Peace" in the Middle East

IFOR’s WPP has opened its Call for Applications for the upcoming Training of Trainers in the Middle East, entitled “Together for Transformation: Gender-sensitive Nonviolence for Sustainable Peace”. Applicants must come from the Middle East region and be active within an NGO setting or peace group/ movement, and preferably linked to regional peace networks/ initiatives.

The purpose of the IFOR Women Peacemakers Program (WPP) Training of Trainers (ToT) is to train male and female peacebuilders from the Middle East region in gender-sensitive active non-violent peacebuilding. Read more on the background and criteria and download the application format

Pilot Training of Trainers for male activists 2009-2010: Overcoming Violence - Exploring Masculinities, Violence and Peace

Gender lies at the root of war and peace and it is increasingly being recognized that issues of masculinities need to be addressed in the field of peacebuilding and active nonviolence.

Since 2002, the WPP has been training women activists
in gender-sensitive active nonviolence, through its Training of Trainers Program (ToT). In 2003, the WPP started including sessions on “Masculinities” in its annual ToTs for women peacemakers, and those have been met with much enthusiasm. In general, upon returning home from the first block of the ToT cycle, the participant is linked to a support person from her/his own region and/or country who will support her/him in the development and imple mentation of his follow-up plan. After a few months, the participant returns for the second block of the ToT cycle.

The WPP is convinced that in order to transform cultures of war and violence, women peace activists need to work together with male allies on these issues. The WPP organized a Training of Trainers Program “Overcoming Violence - Exploring Masculinities, Violence and Peace” for 19 pioneering activist men, from 17 different countries.

The training focused on gender-sensitive active non-violence, the theory of masculinities and its relation to violence, and participatory and gender-sensitive facilitation.

Please view the short video on the ToT (9:26 min) below:

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View the longer video (23:23 min) on the ToT, its backgrounds and development below:

Reports:

Download a report of the second training block here

 

 

 

Download a report of the first training sessions here

 

 

 

Other impressions on the ToT:

Read the statement “Together for Transformation: A Call to Men and Boys”.

Participants’ first impressions of the Training of Trainers can be read via the blog: http://womenpeacemakers.blogspot.com/

"Men have a long history of not considering women in the equation and there is a danger in men getting involved in this area that we simply exercise another takeover bid." Read the article on the ToT written by Rob Fairmichael from Northern Ireland.

 

 

 

 

 

 




Regional Training of Trainers will replace International Training of Trainers

IFOR's Women Peacemakers Program is pleased to announce that from December 2007 onwards its annual Trainings of Trainers will be organized by the newly established Regional Desks.

For more information on the regionalization of the Training of Trainers, click here >

For more information on the Regional Desks, click here >


Photos courtesy of WPP archives