Conflict Dynamics International focuses on two program areas: New Frontiers in Humanitarian Policy and Peacebuilding in Transition States. Conflict Dynamics' New Frontiers program is comprised of several interrelated projects that tackle targeted blockages in humanitarian policy and pracice. These projects are:
- Humanitarian Access: A project with the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
(FDFA) in collaboration with ICRC and OCHA to develop a practical Field Manual on Humanitarian Access
- Children and Armed Conflict Accountability: An initiative aiming to increase effective accountability at the national and international levels for violations against children in the context of armed conflict
- Humanitarian Negotiations: An initiative to develop policy guidance, design and deliver training, and provide technical support to prepare humanitarians to conduct humanitarian negotiations
CDI's Peacebuilding in Transition States program encapsulates a range of activities intended to support peacebuilding as a means of conflict prevention and resolution following violent conflict. The objectives of the PTS program are to:
- develop innovative, outcome-oriented approaches and strategies for peacebuilding in key sectors, including: building political structures and institutions; constitutional drafting processes; institutional reform; re-integration of combatants; etc.
- undertake policy-directed research to provide timely inputs and recommendations to key stakeholders on specific peacebuilding issues (e.g. options for structuring transition of political institutions in Iraq);
- convene stakeholders, and initiate and facilitate dialogue and cross-case learning among key national and international actors, including emerging national authorities and inter-governmental organizations. Conflict Dynamics is currently engaged in peacebuilding projects in the Republic of Sudan; Republic of South Sudan; and Somalia.
