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About the course
About the course
This online course delves into the multidimensional aspects of post-conflict stabilisation and recovery, emphasising governance restoration, rule of law, and justice processes.
Participants explore cross-cutting principles of stabilisation, programming tools, and critical frameworks like human rights and human security approaches. Through interactive learning, they assess actor roles, risks, and develop innovative recovery strategies suitable for complex post-conflict settings.
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: April - June 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: 9 January 2026 (Credit-rated course), 27 March 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 encompasses 6 key themes:
Post-Conflict Stabilisation and Recovery: Explores approaches and patterns in stabilisation and recovery in post-conflict contexts.
Roles of Actors in Stabilisation and Recovery: Examines international, regional, and local actors' roles, responsibilities and gender-sensitive approaches in recovery processes
Restoration of Governance and Rule of Law: Focuses on governance challenges and strategies to establish the rule of law in post-conflict settings
Justice and Reconciliation: Introduces transitional justice principles and their applications for societal reconciliation post-conflict
Human Rights-Based Approach to Reconstruction: Covers applying human rights principles to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of recovery initiatives
Human Security-Based Approach to Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Analyses the human security-based approach and its operational standards for stabilisation and reconstruction.
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
Demonstrate an advanced understanding of stabilisation and recovery frameworks, including multi-level actor roles in post-conflict settings.
Critically assess and evaluate stabilisation strategies, emphasising governance, justice and reconciliation.
Adapt tools and develop alternative recovery strategies in complex environments.
Independently assess risks and apply self-reflective practices to anticipate varying context needs.
Testimonial
Testimonial
'I personally found the Post-Conflict Stabilisation and Recovery course through-provokng. I ended up writing an essay that deliberated why (or why not) should UN peacekeeping missions include a 'protection of civilians by all necessary means' mandate, with a focus on Hamas and civilians in the Gaza Strip, which remains incredibly pertinent today. The teaching in this module enabled me to explore the ICRC's principles of neutrality and impartiality in conflict zones and the right to civilian protection, and when applied, how these principles and rights span and influce peacekeeping in all forms of conflict. The module allowed me to take such principles and deliverate whether mandates must evolve to 'protect civilians by all means necessary' by considering the intricacies of asymmetric modern warfare, which is an ongoing and increasingly important subject matter.' Rhiannon Croker
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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