Understanding and Navigating Political Transitions 2015

TRAINING COURSE

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8-11 JUNE 2015

UNDERSTANDING AND NAVIGATING POLITICAL TRANSITIONS

4-day programme

Course Director

International Course on Political Transitions

Dr Mohammad-Mahmoud

The first edition of the International Course in Securing Political Transitions examines the multifaceted challenges and complex tasks associated with the process of political transition and its shortand long-term implications for the domestic, regional and international security environment. The aim is to equip participants with both the conceptual and practical tools for understanding the nature of transitions and addressing efficiently the challenges they raise.

Ould Mohamedou Deputy Director of the GCSP and Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva and at Sciences Po, Paris.

Former Associate Director of the Harvard University Programme on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research.

GCSP The Geneva Centre for Security Policy is an international foundation with 45 member states from across the globe that provides forwardthinking and innovative solutions for leaders and policymakers concerned with international affairs and security in today’s complex, globalised world.

Key benefits for you The course will enable you to: • Acquire knowledge about the process of political transition and understand ways to secure that process; • Develop perspectives comparatively and historically about transitions to democracy and the challenges associated with them; • Enhance skills to map and address policy-related questions raised domestically, regionally or internationally by transitions; and • Access an extensive network of expertise in international affairs and security as GCSP alumnus.

Faculty profiles The course teaching staff includes GCSP’s international faculty composed of academic and practitioners with broad experience in international affairs, security policy, diplomacy and military affairs, as well as high-level international guestspeakers from civil society, government, academia and international organisations.

Why you should attend This course uniquely offers an opportunity to fully unpack the process of political transition with a view to decipher its sequence, the nature of the actors involved and the security implications at different stages. It provides participants with a presentation of the knowledge of ‘transitology’ developed over the past forty years and updated in the wake of recent developments round the world. Articulated in an interactive format and within an international setting, and building on GCSP’s twenty years of training, this unique course will enable you to competitively address one of the currently urgent yet lasting features of international affairs.

Challenges • Erosion of the rule of law • Engineering representative transformation • Ensuring safety and security • Securing lasting democratic change

Decision-making • Beyond protest • Towards stages and sequences • Transition structures and choices • Handling uncertainty

Actors • Government • Transitory bodies • Civil society • International partners

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The course is composed of ten modules covered in four days.

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Admission For further details about the course and the application process, please contact:

+41 (0)22 730 96 00 Application deadline: Monday, 27 April 2015 Tuition fees: CHF 1,500 (includes tuition, teaching materials and lunches). In a limited number of cases, partial scholarships may be available.

Language requirements: Participants must be proficient in spoken and written English.

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Hosting 35 international organisations, more than 250 non-governmental organisations, and 173 diplomatic missions, representations and delegations, Geneva represents one of the world’s richest networks in international affairs.

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Module 1: The Process and Modes

of Political Transition Module 2: Transition and Disorder Module 3: Constitution-Building Module 4: The Security Sector Module 5: The Role of Civil Society Module 6: The Political Economy of

Transition Module 7: Policies of Democracy Promotion Module 8: Outcomes and Scenarios Module 9: Transnationalism and the

New Transitions Module 10: Decision-making and Transition

Venue: GCSP Maison de la paix Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2D P.O. Box 1295 CH-1211 Geneva 1 www.gcsp.ch Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn