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About the course
About the course
This online module aims to equip learners with a sound understanding of the complexity of conflicts. Stress is put particularly on the understanding of violence, its different forms, and impacts on programmes. It also seeks to explore coping strategies and adaptations of local populations and responses of the international community.
This module seeks to provide learners with analytical tools to better comprehend the contexts of conflict and to make adequate assessments of the challenges faced by practitioners. Based on different paradigms of humanitarianism, conflict-sensitive approaches such as 'do no harm' or 'better programming initiatives' are explored to ensure that programming does not fuel conflicts and, when possible, enhances conflict transformation. It aims, therefore to analyse critically the links between humanitarian action and peacebuilding initiatives
This course is offered for credit or on a non-credit basis and is delivered jointly by Oxford Brookes University's Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).
A flexible and user-friendly online learning environment will enable you to learn from your workplace. During the course, you will have support from a team of academic experts, top-ranked practitioners, and field experts. As well as the unique opportunity to interact and learn with peers and expert facilitators across the world.
Your time will be split equally among four main activities:
Staff-led activities, such as webinars, tutorials and discussions
Self-led activities, including readings and independent exercises
Drawing on your past or current professional practice
Preparing your assignments (credit-rated course)
The credit-rated CPD module, equivalent to 20 postgraduate credits, requires learners to complete assessments and can be counted towards the distance-learning PG Cert/ Master's in Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding. The non-credit-rated short course leads to a certificate of attendance.
Dates
Dates
Delivery dates: January - March 2026
This course is primarily self-paced, with a required one-hour weekly webinar. It's designed to be flexible for those with full-time jobs or for those studying from around the world.
Application deadlines: 10 January 2026 (Credit-rated course), 20 January 2026 (Non-credit-rated course)
Non-credit course: 8 weeks comprising of 6 interactive weeks plus 2 reading weeks
Credit-rated course: 11 weeks comprising of 6 interactive weeks, 2 reading weeks plus 3 assessment weeks
Course cost
Course cost
Credit-rated course is £1,145*
Non-credit-rated course: £600*
Course Content
Course Content
The online course is estimated to be 200 hours per module and includes 6 key sessions:
Introduction to humanitarian action in conflict
Understanding violence and conflict
Impacts and responses of affected populations
Conflict sensitive approaches to humanitarian action
Conflict analysis and conflict mapping
Linking conflict sensitive programming and conflict transformation
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
Perform conflict analysis and demonstrate expertise in the use of conflict mapping and conflict sensitivity programming tools.
Assess rigorously and critically, using a large range of concepts and theories, contexts of intervention, conflict impacts, adaptations of populations, and responses of the international community.
With critical awareness, undertake analysis of complex or contradictory data related to humanitarian and peacebuilding contexts and actions. Communicate the outcomes effectively.
Demonstrate a high level of independence and self-reflective skills in mainstreaming conflict sensitivity.
Who is this module for?
Who is this module for?
This course is suitable for practitioners already working in the humanitarian, conflict transformation and peacebuilding fields and in related areas such as diplomacy and journalism, who wish to continue their professional development, and practitioners working in other fields interested in exploring opportunities in these areas.
Contact us
Contact us
If you have any enquiries about the course, please email us at hst-cpdadmissions@brookes.ac.uk
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*Cancellation policy
*Cancellation policy
If you cancel on or before the application deadline, you will receive a 50% refund. Cancellations made after this date are not eligible for a refund.
If the course is cancelled by Oxford Brookes University, all registered participants will get a full refund.
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