Short certifying programmes

« Geopolitics and geostrategy of energy » programme

This programme provides some knowledge and expertise on the states’ strategies in order to control energy resources. As these strategies differ according to the economic structure of each global or regional power and depends on the decision makers’ policies, the lectures encompass a comprehensive approach on energy control strategy and deals with energy as a source of conflict and cooperation, through the following axis:

• Control on energy production by states and multinational companies

• Control on the channels of energy distribution to the international market

• Diversification strategies and the search for alternatives to energy dependency

• Conflicts triggered by competing states and political actors for the control of energy

• Multilateral cooperation on energy through international or regional orgnaizations

Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies

The training programme on “conflict resolution and peace studies” is provided in support of the  CEDS- UNESCO partnership in order to promote the diplomatic and cultural tools enabling decision makers to contribute to peace building.

The proliferation of crisis and the escalation in many protrated conflicts toward different kinds of civil wars requires adequate conceptual and practical tools enabling the decision makers to analyze those phenomenon, to understand them and to influence their process.

The designed programme is expected to meet these requirements through a balanced combination of theoretical and practical tools. Beside the explanatory theories, a review of the political and diplomatic mechanisms such as multitrack diplomacy, transitional justice, mediation techniques are also taught by experts.