Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
This online course covered how to build foundational knowledge about the dominant armed actors in a complex conflict zone. It addressed how to extract relevant data about group composition, identities, interests, and affiliations from the secondary source material, and organize that information into a user-friendly “conflict tracker” tool that can be continuously updated as conditions evolve on the ground.
3 weeks, 5 hours per week
Dr Aisha Ahmad
Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Toronto
FutureLearn
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop a user-friendly tracking tool to monitor armed actors and their interests in a complex conflict zone.
- Extract and organize relevant data about armed actors, such as group composition, geographic reach, and primary motivations.
- Investigate the intra-and inter-group fault lines of conflict among armed actors, as well as their alliances and affiliations.
Syllabus
- Monitor and assess changing dynamics in a conflict zone.
- Why armed groups may be fighting against their governments.
- Turning theory into practice, tracking conflict drivers.
- NSAG behaviour, such as forging coalitions, merging with other groups, spitting into smaller factions, and switching allegiances.
Issued on 29th October 2024
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