Exciting Online Course Completely free of charge: Apply for the 2026 Peace Responsiveness Online Training

Ednah Carrick March 18, 2026

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Closing Date: 29 March 2026

Exciting Online Course Completely free of charge: Apply for the 2026 Peace Responsiveness Online Training

Do you work in a humanitarian, development, or conflict-affected context, and are you looking for ways your work can more deliberately contribute to peace?

Interpeace is excited to invite you to the next edition of its Peace Responsiveness Online Training!

The course uniquely equips humanitarian, development, and multi-mandate professionals with essential tools and skills to contribute positively to peace and conflict dynamics in the fragile contexts they operate. It also supports peacebuilding advisors who guide these organizations in strengthening their peace impact. Interpeace blended learning format combines engaging self-paced modules with interactive, trainer-led live sessions.

If you are nterested in joining a global cohort dedicated to advancing peace-positive humanitarian and development work through a proactive, whole-of-system approach then this Online Course Completely free of charge is for you!

Overview

Interpeace’s Peace Responsiveness Online Training blends self-paced learning with virtual trainer sessions. It is the first course of its kind to focus specifically on articulating peace contributions by humanitarian, development, and multi-mandate actors, applying a whole-of-organization and whole-of-system approach to sustaining peace.

About the course

This course equips humanitarian, development and peacebuilding professionals with substantive knowledge and skills to maximise the peace contributions of technical initiatives – such as food security, WASH, or health initiatives – in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. The course also covers the types of personal agency and organizational environment needed to overcome barriers and catalyse change towards peace-responsive approaches in international assistance. In doing so, the course supports the operationalisation of the UN Sustaining Peace Agenda and the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus.

Participants join structured cohorts and complete training modules at their own pace within a timeframe of three months. During this period, they participate in three live virtual sessions with facilitators and fellow participants to exchange ideas, discuss content, and ask questions. The course features a specially developed fictional case study, various assessments, and a learning journal, ensuring an interactive and practical learning experience.

What will you learn?

After taking the course, participants will have more tools at hand to:

Meaningfully contribute to sustaining peace, thereby increasing societal resilience to conflict and violence and paving the way for progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
Leverage the potential for peace effectiveness of humanitarian and development initiatives and, in so doing, increase the programmatic effectiveness of such initiatives;
Act as change agents to catalyse and propel peace responsiveness within their own organizations and the broader international aid system.

Testimonials

“The course is very practical and encouraging. Even as an individual, there are many things we can achieve [with regard to sustaining peace]. Small daily practices can be so incredibly powerful!”
“The course has clearly showcased how different approaches can be integrated for more impactful interventions. I hope to carry this over in my work.””The trainer-led live sessions were crucial to reflect on how the material can be extrapolated to reflect on real-life experiences.”
“I work in Syria, a country that is experiencing a long-term crisis and that suffers from various conflicts. Social ills that have emerged in a multi-component society, in addition to loss of livelihoods, migration, displacement, destruction, weak performance of local authorities, and other factors that undermine peacebuilding – all this needs a methodology and mechanisms like the one we learned in the course.””This knowledge will help me in programming of interventions to ensure they are responsive to peace. I will also support in conflict sensitive analysis. I will also advance the triple nexus approach in our programming.”

Next course: 13 April – 22 June 2026

For your information, the trainer-led group sessions are going to take place on the following dates:

Session 1 – Wednesday, 15 April, 15-16:30 CET
Session 2 – Group A: Wednesday, 6 May, 15-17:00 CET
- - Group B: Friday, 8 May, 15-17:00 CET
Session 3 – Group A: Monday, 1 June, 14:30-17:00 CET
- - Group B: Wednesday, 3 June, 14:30-17:00 CET

Please note that participants are expected to attend and actively engage in all live sessions. As spots per cohort are limited, Interpeace kindly asks you to ensure your availability on the dates and times indicated above.