Certificate Course in Conflict Analysis offered free-of-charge by USIP.
Professionals in conflict management face extraordinary challenges in all phases of their work, whether rebuilding in the aftermath of conflict, stopping conflict in progress, or preventing conflict before it begins.

In these efforts, successful practitioners follow a simple precept: effective action depends upon insightful analysis.

This course presents an introduction to the subject of conflict analysis, illustrating analytical tools used by practitioners with reference to two extended case studies, the conflict in Kosovo and the genocide in Rwanda.

Course Objectives
In completing this course, you will gain proficiency in the following skills:
- Classifying phases of conflict using the curve of conflict
- Identifying interventions appropriate to different phases of a conflict
- Analyzing the conflict in Kosovo and the genocide in Rwanda using terms and concepts from the curve of conflict
- Generating a thorough set of characteristics for describing conflict using an analytical framework
- Analyzing the conflict in Kosovo and the genocide in Rwanda using terms and concepts from the framework
- Analyzing unfamiliar conflicts using terms and concepts from the curve and framework