Conflict Prevention & Peacebuilding Policy
Early warning, mediation, and post-conflict recovery.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
The conflict prevention reform has survived three permanent secretaries and zero implementations — and each transition resets an agenda the institution cannot afford to restart. Institutions that cannot trace money to outcomes lose the argument for both the money and the autonomy. You leave with the 100-day plan, the coalition map and the honest measurement that let your conflict prevention agenda survive contact with reality.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Design conflict prevention policy that survives implementation: evidence, incentives and delivery capability.
- Present conflict prevention evidence at the cabinet table with brevity, honesty and stakes.
- Build conflict prevention delivery and measurement systems that move outcomes, not activity.
- Commission conflict prevention evaluation and read it critically — attribution, gaming and all.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
The Dam at Two-Thirds
A flagship project at a national statistics office is two-thirds complete when independent review finds the hydrology assumptions optimistic and a cheaper alternative existed. Cancelling embarrasses the government; completing it strains the debt ceiling.
Your decision: Complete, redesign, or pause — and design the public accountability for whichever you choose, conflict prevention evidence included.
IPAT Data Lab™
The conflict prevention data at a devolved county government measures activity; nobody measures delivery.
Dataset: Synthetic administrative and survey data for a devolved county government — the two sources disagree.
Your task: Reconcile the sources, build the delivery dashboard, and defend it before a faculty "cabinet".
A conflict prevention delivery dashboard that resists gaming.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build the design and evaluation framework for your institution's flagship programme: evidence base, causal chain, measurement, and delivery governance.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
- • Cost-benefit analysis and regulatory impact assessment
- • Results-based management
- • Randomized and quasi-experimental evaluation methods
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
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Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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