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Emmanuel Tronc, Senior Program Manager, Humanitarian Access and Negotiations

Congratulations to our colleague Emmanuel Tronc on his recent article "The Humanitarian Imperative: Compromises and Prospects in Protracted Conflicts" . Based on his extensive experience, Emmanuel reinforces the importance of the International Normative Framework and International Humanitarian Law in the humanitarian field. He also expands upon issues in international humanitarian deployments, access, the practical application of humanitarian principles, and the instrumentalization of aid.

Read the article here to find out more about the importance of the International Normative Framework and humanitarian principles, which are at the core of Conflict Dynamics International's work.

SUPPORTING HUMANITARIAN ACCESS TO PEOPLE IN NEED

Conflict Dynamics facilitated a workshop in Maiduguri, Nigeria with the Nigeria INGO Forum on sharing and applying aspects of a structured approach to securing and sustaining humanitarian access . The training brought the opportunity to enhance a longer term relationship with the NGO consortium, in terms of support to practitioners.

The Humanitarian Access and Negotiations Team facilitated workshops in Mogadishu, Somalia in April along with the Somalia NGO Consortium . Conflict Dynamics will implement more workshops in the field to frontline humanitarian practitioners and the team will present at the 3rd Annual Meeting of Frontline Humanitarian Negotiators: Engaging with Communities on the Frontlines
EMPOWERING WOMEN IN SOMALIA

The Somali Program worked on women's leadership in local peacebuilding efforts with women peacebuilders in Kismayo on 28 August and Mogadishu 24 to 27July to hear about their experiences and gather data on their training needs. A gender training manual incorporating their ideas will be developed.

Also, with the Somali Federal Government and Federal Member States Conflict Dynamics convened an expert seminar on aspects of Somalia's federal structure.The workshop, held between 15th and 16th of August brought together 23 participants from the Ministry of Constitution, Ministry of Justice and the Federalization Negotiation Technical Committee (FNTC).
SU PPORTING YOUTH PEACEBUILDERS IN SUDAN

The Sudan Program has been working with Sudanese youth since 2012. The latest collaboration started in September 2017 and has so far comprised six workshops with three different groups of Sudanese youth from politics, civil society, and academia. The workshops have supported youth actors to explore political reforms that could help achieve peace in Sudan, and to develop project ideas to realize some of those reforms.

Outcomes of the workshops include project plans and support to youth to implement their projects to achieve peaceful change in their regions. Once the ideas have been implemented, the youth initiative will share success stories from those projects among Sudanese youth more widely.
Our Peace Action Team’s Research and Methodology colleagues presented on “Lessons from Experience: Outcome Mapping in Conflict-Affected Contexts".
Join Conflict Dynamics International, Search for Common Ground , The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, and The Inclusive Peace & Transition Initiative in a panel discussion on “Making Inclusion Work for Peace”. It will be held on November 6 at 16:15 - 17:30 in the Maison de la Paix Auditorium A1B

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Conflict Dynamics International works to prevent and resolve violent conflict between and within states, and to alleviate human suffering resulting from conflicts and other crises around the world.