Advanced Training Course on Conflict Management for Women
“Enhancing Women’s Capacity to Negotiate and Mediate “
PROGRAMME
All day Arrival and Registration
Meeting of Workshop
Navigation Team
19:00 Dinner for those present
8:30-9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
·
Her Excellency; Madame Bruce Mariama Aribot, Minister of
Social Affairs, Advancement of Women, and Children
·
Mr. Kingsley Opoku
Amaning, UN Resident Coordinator in Guinea
·
Ms. Makiko Tagashira
on behalf of Ms. Carolyn Hannan, Director, Division for the Advancement of
Women, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York
9:00-10:00 Key
Note Speech
Mr.
Kaba Mory, State Secretary for International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs on behalf of His Excellency, Mr. François Fall, Minister of Foreign
Affairs
10:00-10:15 Coffee
10:15-10:45 Introduction of Resource Persons
Participant Introductions and
Expectations
10:45-11:00 Workshop Assumptions and Programme Overview
11:00-13:00 Case
Study : Zanzibar
Presented by Dr. M.
Anafu, former Commonwealth Special Adviser
Questions and Facilitated Discussion
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Mediation: An Overview
Facilitated
by Ms Alison Lazarus, Senior Trainer,
CCR
·
Exercise: Placing
Mediation
·
Clearing the Terms:
Intervention, Impartiality, Neutrality
15:30-15:45 Coffee
15:45-17:00 Mediation Overview continued
·
Conditions for
Mediation
17h00 Pulse of the Day
17:30 Navigation Team Meeting
8:30-9:00 Open Window
9:00-11:00 Case Study: Zimbabwe
Presented
by Dr. M. Anafu, former Commonwealth Special Adviser
Questions and Facilitated Discussion
·
Does female
leadership make a difference in a crisis
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:30 Stages in the Mediation Process: A Model
Facilitated by Ms Alison
Lazarus
12:30-13:00 Preparation of Team for Mediation Role Play
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:45 Mediation Role Play based on “ No
Reform, No Elections”
15:45-16:00 Coffee
16:00-17:00 Debrief
·
Clarifying the
process
·
Finding a Mediator;
Who acts
·
Analysis before entry
·
Approaching the
parties
·
Principles for
Interaction
17:00-17:30 Pulse of the Day
17:30 Navigation Team meeting
19:30 Cultural
Evening hosted by MARWOPNET
8:00 -10:00 Role
Play: The Mediation Process (based on
Case: No Reforms,
No
Elections)
·
Convening talks
(Working in Triads)
·
Mediator’s Opening
Statements (A Fishbowl Exercise)
·
Exercise in Applying
Procedures for Agenda Formation (Working in Triads)
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-18:00 Field Trip (All
day)
8:00-10:00 Panel Presentation: Mediation in the African
Cultural Context
Dr. Anafu, former
Commonwealth Special Adviser
Dr. Saran Daraba, President Mano Rover Women’s Peace Network
Questions and Facilitated Discussion
·
Cultural Capital for
use in bringing parties together
·
“Inculturating” Mediation Processes
·
Is there a
“Women’s Way”?
·
Linking informal
processes with formal processes
Rituals for entry and exit
10:00-10:15 Coffee
10:15-11:15 Role Play : Based on Case “Peace Committee Locked In”
Pre-mediation
11:15 -11:45 Debrief
·
Mediator Power and
Influence
11:45 -12:45 Role Play Continued
Initial
joint session
12:45 -13:15 Debrief
·
Roles of the Mediator
13:15 -14:15 Lunch
14:15 -15:15 Role Play Continued
Subsequent sessions
15:15-15:45 Debrief
·
Wise Agreements
·
Guarantors
15:45 -16:00 Coffee
16:00-17:00 Conflict Management Information Portal
(web-based data base)
Demonstration and
consultation
17:00 Pulse of the day
8:30-9:30 Making
this Learning Matter : A Council of African Women Mediators, the Peace and
Security Council of the African Union and Challenges for a “Council of African
Women Mediators”
Presented by Ms Bineta Diop, Director of Femme Africa
Solitarité (FAS) and Secretary of the African
Women Committee for Peace and Development (AWCPD)
9:30-10:30 Facilitated
Discussion
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:00 Making
this Learning Matter : Next Steps for “Council of Women Mediators”
12:30-13:30 Evaluation of Workshop
13:30 Graduation and Closure